Next Best Outdoors Know the best hours to go, before you go.
Next Best Outdoors scores every hour of the coming days at your own spots, for fishing, crabbing, clamming, paddling, surfing, sailing, hiking, pickleball and tennis, from live weather, tide, current and river data. And it tells you why.
Free for up to 3 spots. No credit card.
- ✓ Low wind 4–7 mph +100/100
- ✓ Slack tide high slack 7:42 AM +75/75
- ✓ Falling pressure −0.01 inHg/hr +40/50
- ~ Solunar period major starts 9:40 AM +5/25
Sample forecast. Your spots use live weather, tide and gauge data.
Built on public data you already trust
- NOAA tides & currents
- USGS river gauges
- Army Corps dams
- Hourly weather & marine forecasts
- WDFW & ODFW rule changes
One app instead of five
Stop flipping between the wind app, the tide table, the river gauge and the regulations page.
The best hours, with reasons
Every hour of the next 5 days gets one score for your spot (16 with Pro), and every score shows what earned it: wind, tide, current, pressure, river flow, moon.
Your limits, ruled out
Set the wind, waves, current or cold you won’t go out in. Those hours are dropped, not just scored lower.
Set up in a minute
Drop a pin, pick what you’re after and how much weather you’ll put up with. The nearest tide, current and river stations are picked for you to check.
One-tap catch log
Log a fish with one tap, even with no signal. Weather, tide, current and moon are recorded with it automatically. Works from a phone button or shortcut too.
Learn what works for you
Your trips turn into catch rates by tide, wind, pressure and time of day. Ask your logbook questions and get scoring suggestions for your spots.
Rule changes and a morning email
Washington and Oregon emergency rule changes show on the spot they apply to. A morning email lists your best windows coming up.
- Incoming 1.8
- High slack 0.9
- Outgoing 1.1
- Low slack 0.5
Low slack greyed out: only 2 hours fished.
"When do I do best for coho at the jetty?"
Incoming tide in the first two hours after sunrise: 2.4 fish an hour over 6 trips, about twice your average.
Sample numbers. Yours come from your own trips.
Your logbook, doing the math
Most fishing logs are a list of fish. Here every hour you were out is recorded with its conditions, including the hours nothing bit. So you see fish per hour by tide, wind and light, not just where you got lucky.
- ✓ One tap to log, offline included. Species, length and weight later if you want.
- ✓ Conditions filled in for you: weather, pressure trend, tide, current, moon.
- ✓ A season summary and answers to questions about your own trips.
- ✓ Suggestions to tune your spots’ scoring, applied with one click.
Made for time on the water
How it works
Add your spots
Pin the places you actually go and say what you do there. Quick setup fills in sensible preferences you can fine-tune later.
See the best hours
The calendar ranks the days ahead, and each window shows its score and why.
Go, log, get better
Log what you catch. Over a season your own numbers show which conditions pay off.
Your next good window is already on the calendar
Add your first spot in a couple of minutes. Free for up to 3 spots. No credit card.
Why one score per hour?
A good day out depends on wind, tide, current, rain, light and, for rivers, flow, all at once. Next Best Outdoors combines hourly weather and marine forecasts with NOAA tide and current predictions and USGS and Army Corps gauges, weighs them the way you set for each spot, and turns the result into a single score for every hour, so the "Goldilocks" hours stand out.
Built for the Pacific Northwest, works anywhere in the US
Forecasts, tides, currents and gauges cover the US. Washington and Oregon spots also get the state agencies’ rule-change notices, and Columbia River spots can show a currents and temperature model from the bar to Bonneville Dam.