About Fishing Maps
Let us help you get onto the action and make your day on the water more productive and fun. Tap into Sam McClatchie’s 30+ years of oceanographic knowledge to point you to those hotspots to up the catch rate and lower your costs.
What is Fishing Maps?
We provide fishing maps for game fishing. We develop new tools for game fishing based on our expertise in fisheries oceanography. Our maps can be purchased by affordable annual, seasonal or monthly subscriptions. New maps are provided every day. We help you interpret oceanography for game fishing.
Charts & Overlays
Sea Surface Temperature
Locate the warm and cool waters with accurate, frequently updated, cloud-free Sea Surface Temperature (SST) imagery.
Temperature Breaks
Close in on the strongest temperature breaks where the bait aggregate with our unique SST front maps.
Hi-Res Chlorophyll
Define productive Chlorophyll edges and fronts with the highest resolution imagery available.
Current Flows & Eddies
Detect converging currents, rotating currents (or eddies), and reversing currents (current shear) with current velocity maps.
Bathymetry Maps with game fishing hotspots
Locate shelf edges, canyon heads, and ocean ridges with bathymetry maps, labelled with known game fishing locations.
Geographic Regions
At Fishing Maps, we specialize in the regions of New Zealand, California, and Baja California, leveraging decades of expertise and in-depth knowledge to provide the most accurate and effective charting solutions for these prime fishing locations.
California and Baja
New Zealand
Testimonials From Our Anglers
Sam is an incredibly knowledgeable and experienced oceanographer. The product he produces is far more technically advanced than alternatives simply due to the effort Sam puts into his product as a result of his years of studying the ocean and the creatures that inhabit it. His knowledge is unmatched in the fishing maps industry.
Che Kranenburg
Enjoying fishing maps and the how to videos, as well as the regular updates from Sam with areas of interest in the Facebook group
Rob de Lacey