The spot promise
Your spots stay yours
A record is public. A spot is private. Here is the whole promise, in plain words, and what the code does to keep it.
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Records show the waterbody only
Every board, catch card, water page, species page and profile names the water and nothing smaller. Strawberry Reservoir, never a pin. On the map, a gold pin marks a water that holds a record, not the place you cast.
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Exact catch locations are never published
Not on a page, not on the map, not on a share card, and not in anything the site sends to the public. The server keeps coordinates out of every public response, and no screen at Fish Club HQ can bring them back once they are gone. We do not sell personal information, and a pin is personal.
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The proximity check is a review signal, erased after review
When you log a catch you can share your position, or let the photo's own location speak. It is optional and it never blocks a catch. It answers one question for the review desk: were you near the water you named. The radius is generous, and wider still on rivers, because a river is fished thirty miles from its pin. The moment the review is decided, verified or rejected, both precise points are deleted permanently. What remains is a distance, like 0.4 mi, and a pass or fail flag. Neither can find you or your spot.
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Photos are stripped of location metadata before upload
Your phone writes GPS into every photo it takes. Fish Club reads it once, on your device, at the moment you attach the picture, to fill in the date and the proximity check. Then the photo is re-encoded on your device, and that copy, with no metadata in it, is what uploads. On the rare device that cannot re-encode, the photo is kept for the review desk only and is never shown publicly.
Why the pin is not for sale
Some fishing apps make exact catch positions a paid map layer. It is a fair business, and it is not ours. Nothing on Fish Club is worth more with your pin attached.
Pro sells flair, Bait Intel and the right to found a club. Bait Intel shows the lure a record was caught on, and only when the angler chose to share it. The water is public. The spot is yours.
Anglers must hold a valid fishing license for the state they're fishing. Always follow your local fishing rules and regulations. Handle fish with speed and care: wet hands, minimal air time, quick release.
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