Trust & process

Editorial standards.

This site exists to help you decide when and where to fish, honestly. Here is how content is produced, reviewed, and corrected.

Nothing derived from presence.

The site may publish anything derived from public sources or from its own predictions. It may never publish anything derived from an angler having been at a mark.

That rules out catch reports, catch feeds, and community layers. It also rules out quieter leaks of the same information: mark page-view leaderboards, "most saved this month," trending marks, or any ranking that rises because people logged fish there. Alerts may flow outward to a subscriber; subscriber counts per mark are never surfaced.

Forecast accuracy is graded against public weather archives and our own logged predictions, not against who turned up. A private, device-local notebook that never leaves the phone is allowed; anything that phones home is not.

Your marks stay yours.

We will never publish your marks. We do not have a catch feed. Nobody can see where you fished, when, or what you caught. Ever. Saved marks sync only to your private account when you sign in. Optional notes on a mark stay on your device. We do not collect session outcomes for the model.

We publish ground, access and tactics for each mark. We do not publish anyone's individual results, and we do not publish micro-marks on ground small enough to be fished out. We publish no coordinates for a mark anywhere, in the open data included: a mark is named by its town and its stretch of coast, never a spot to stand on.

Local first.

Guides and tactics are grounded in the east-facing Dublin and Wicklow shoreline: surf tables, harbour walls, railway access and seasonal patterns that behave differently from generic Irish or UK advice. Wicklow and Dublin each keep their own live score group; Dublin Bay marks are live-scored alongside Wicklow, with field-verified confidence where we have stood the ground.

Conditions and planning tools.

Live weather comes from MET Norway (Greystones-area coordinates). When enabled, a plain-language narrative interprets those figures for shore fishing. It is assistive, not a marine forecast. Always confirm Met Éireann, local swell on your mark, and tide tables before travelling.

The Today's shore plan layers explainable wind and sea-state heuristics (including the classic easterly surf rule) on top of that snapshot. Inspect the reasoning chips on that page before treating any mark shortlist as prescriptive.

Species seasonality for Wicklow is summarised on the fishing calendar. Month ratings are editorially maintained to stay aligned with spot and species pages.

Corrections and local notes.

Reader corrections and local notes are reviewed before they influence public guidance. We do not publish private mark details without permission, and safety or regulation corrections are prioritised before routine copy updates.

Regulations and conservation.

Species and bag-limit notes are verified against primary sources: the Irish Statute Book, EUR-Lex, and the SFPA minimum-size list, with instruments cited on each rules page. They are not legal advice. Verify current IFI and EU measures before retaining fish.

Affiliate links and sponsorship.

Gear guides and some articles link to Amazon.ie with our affiliate tag. We earn a small commission on qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. We only recommend tackle we use or would buy ourselves. Every page with affiliate links carries a visible disclosure above the first link.

Sponsored placements, when offered, are labeled clearly, reviewed against these editorial standards, and never influence conditions scores, mark rankings, or verdict tiers.

Irish Shore Fishing doesn't currently show display advertising. If that changes, the privacy policy will be updated before any ads appear.

Interpretability, not prescription.

Tools here explain trade-offs: wind sector, swell, tide window, so you can decide. They do not replace forecasts, regulations, or what you see on the beach. When an output feels too neat for messy conditions, trust the messy conditions.

Corrections log.

When we get something wrong, we fix it and log it on the changelog. Spot a factual error? Use contact. We prioritise safety and regulatory corrections.

NEXT STEP

Open the plan, then fish.

Material updates land on the changelog. Corrections start at contact. Live rankings stay on the plan.