Trout & Trails

🤝 Community

• The Stream. A chronological feed of catches, photos, and conversation from people you actually fish with. No algorithm, no rage-bait, no “suggested for you.”
• Trout Unlimited chapters. 367 TU chapters pre-seeded with home pages, member rosters, event calendars, and tournament tools. Chapter admins get the keys for free.
• Buddies + Trip planner. Add the people you fish with as buddies. Plan upcoming trips, invite buddies, share gear lists, and coordinate carpooling from one place.
• Direct messages. Private DM threads with anyone in your network. Trip planning, fly recommendations, “hey are you fishing tomorrow?”

🐟 Fishing

• Catch journal. Log every fish with photo, species, length, weight, water temp, method, and weather. Private by default; share to the Stream when you want to.
• Live water gauges. 14,000+ USGS + Environment Canada gauges, pinned to a map, with real-time flow and stage. Watch your home water before you drive.
• FishWiki. A community-built field guide. Species pages with identification photos, habitat, common-confusion warnings, fly recommendations, and seasonal patterns.
• Camps directory. 100+ trout-side campgrounds mapped, with amenities filters (showers, hookups, dog-friendly, ADA access) and links to reserve.
• Fly shops & guides directory. 130+ verified shops and guides nationwide. Pinned on a map, claimed by real owners, reviewed by the community.
• Marketplace. Buy and sell used gear with other anglers. Cash-only. No fees. No shipping middlemen.

🏆 Tournaments

• Real chapter-run competitions. Multi-species or top-N scoring, division support, team or solo formats, verified catches via a 7-layer verification chain.
• Live leaderboards. Standings update the moment a catch is logged. Per-species big-fish boards. Real-time tournament chat for registered anglers.
• Prize-pool transparency. Hosts set a guaranteed minimum + per-entry percentage. Anglers see the running pot. Payouts via Stripe Express direct to winners.
• 0% platform take. Hosts pay a flat $25 to publish. We don't touch entry fees.
• Organizer tools. Captain handoff, organizer handoff, late-submission window, AI-assisted catch verification, organizer review queue for flagged catches.

📲 Anywhere you fish

• Mobile-first PWA. Install as a real app on iOS and Android. Works offline (catch logging keeps working in cellular dead zones — syncs when you're back in service).
• Push notifications. Buddy posts, tournament leaderboard movement, chapter event reminders, water-gauge alerts when your home river hits your target flow.
• The Drift digest. A weekly email summary of what your chapter, your buddies, and your watched waters have been up to. (Opt-in; we don't spam.)

🛡️ Privacy & trust

• Catch geofencing. Generalize or fully hide catch locations. Default: shared with chapter only.
• Verified-shop badges. Real ownership verification via the claim flow.
• Verified catches. 7-layer verification chain (photo, timestamp, GPS, water-gauge cross-check, organizer review, AI vision check, peer flagging).
• No third-party trackers. No Facebook pixel, no Google Analytics. Self-hosted analytics only.
• Account deletion in 2 clicks. Settings → Delete account. Hard delete. No “deactivation purgatory.”

Chapter presidents

Run your chapter without juggling a Facebook group, a Mailchimp list, and a Google Sheet. Members, events, tournaments, gear sales — all in one place. Free.

Tournament hosts

Spend $25 to publish a real, verified, leaderboard-driven tournament. Keep 100% of the entry fees. Pay winners via Stripe Express.

Guides and fly shops

Claim your free shop page. Get listed on the map. Take reviews from anglers who actually fished with you. Sell used demo gear in the marketplace.

Weekend anglers

Log your catches privately. Watch your home water from your phone. Find a chapter to fish with. Plan trips with your buddies.

Conservation-minded anglers

Support the TU chapter ecosystem. Use catch & release tracking. Contribute to FishWiki. Help build a community-owned alternative to surveillance-based social media.

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Trout & Trails — a real community for trout anglers. Chapters, catches, live water. Free to join.

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The community-built home for trout anglers. Chapters · catches · live USGS gauges · verified tournaments · zero ads. Free to join → troutandtrails.com

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🎣 Finally — a real community app for trout anglers.

Not another Facebook group. Not another generic fishing app. Trout & Trails is built around the real fabric of the sport: your local TU chapter, the buddies you actually fish with, the rivers you actually fish, and the shops + guides that keep it all running.

✅ Log catches with photos, water temp, weather, and method
✅ Watch 14,000+ live USGS water gauges from your phone
✅ 367 Trout Unlimited chapters pre-seeded — free for chapters forever
✅ Real chapter tournaments with verified catches and live leaderboards
✅ A community-built fish ID wiki, camps directory, and used-gear marketplace
✅ No ads. No third-party trackers. No surveillance.

Free during early access. Free forever for the community side.

🔗 troutandtrails.com

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Launching: Trout & Trails — a community-owned home for trout anglers.

After a year of building, we're opening early access to Trout & Trails: a social platform built specifically for trout fishing communities.

What makes it different:

🟢 Chapter-first. 367 Trout Unlimited chapters seeded at launch, free forever for chapter admins.

🟢 0% take on tournaments. Hosts pay a flat $25 to publish; entry fees flow directly to organizers via Stripe Express. We don't skim the prize pool.

🟢 Privacy-first. No third-party trackers. No data brokers. Catch locations are private by default.

🟢 Built around the real trips. Live USGS gauges, 130+ fly shops and guides mapped, 100+ trout-side campgrounds with amenity filters, community-built fish ID wiki.

🟢 Owned by anglers. Built by One Overland, LLC — no VC, no ad model.

Free during early access. Free forever on the community side. We'd love your feedback.

→ troutandtrails.com