onX Fish: Minnesota for Android

With so many lakes having special regulations these days it is really nice that this app includes those!

This app is very useful in the aspect of giving you information on the species in a given body of water with just the click of a button. Although I would like to see an expansion upon the feature that allows you to save lakes I would implement a folder system that allows you to put different bodies of water in nameable folders like for example putting all of your crappie lakes in one folder and walleye lakes in another just to help with organization of your favorite lakes. Other than that I absolutely love this app.

I wish this app lived up to the ONX name. The topographical maps for the lakes I fish are missing major fishing drop offs, islands, sunken islands, etc. the ones it does have, are not in the right location. The bones for the app are there but it needs some serious help.

Please come out with a version of this as a layer for OnX hunt if possible or a combination app. A lot of people both hunt and fish. It would be nice to have a do all app for that as I don’t think one currently exists. So far so good. I’m enjoying this.

This app is great for many different applications, and brings a lot of different information that both serious and amateur anglers can appreciate. This app takes in a lot of information and presents it all in one location which is very helpful for a one click option for access to different recourses. This is something that no other app does successfully and they did a great job of making that happen. However there are a few things with this app that I find don’t serve there purpose properly. The first of which is both the “trophy potential” and “fish abundance” labels. I have found that most of the lakes around my area and beyond simply have misleading information about them. Many well known trophy walleye lakes do not list walleye with “trophy potential” but then another lake that is more known for smaller size walleye will receive the “trophy potential” label. This is not only true for walleye, but every other fish species as well. The same goes for the “fish abundance” which just seems very inconsistent with the reality with how many fish are actually in a lake. I understand that they are just estimating, but I think many could take this information too seriously and end up making a fishing trip to a lake only to find the information wasn't consistent with reality. The other issue is the lake contours are poor. If you are looking to get an app to give you lake contours this is not the app for you. I would love to see them upgrade the contours to something more accurate like Lakemaster or Navionics, but I know that’s a big ask. Overall I think this app is very useful and all anglers should take advantage of it, but I would not take the “fish abundance” and “trophy potential” to seriously. The Minnesota DNR website gives you access to all that raw data for free and is easier to digest. I hope that helps some of you.