How a catch report travels
- Report. The captain holds one button on the handheld or the Captain app, or calls or texts the catch in. The boat is already on the screen; angler and species come from the roster the director loaded.
- Capture. The report arrives with the boat’s identity, an official server timestamp and its GPS position attached — nothing retyped, nothing to remember.
- Verify. Boundary, fishing hours and boat identity are checked automatically, and the results sit beside the catch on the director’s screen.
- Confirm. The director issues a unique color-and-number code. It is announced to the fleet, read over marine VHF, shown on the reporting boat’s handheld, and posted to the dock TV and the live leaderboard at the same moment.
The whole fleet hears the call and the confirmation as they happen. That is the difference: the tournament no longer finds out about a catch after the fact.
Run the fleet. Verify catches. Keep the tournament moving.
One clear command center to manage offshore activity, reduce confusion, and stay in control from the first line in to the final horn.
Live Catch Dashboard
See catch reports as they come in — vessel, angler, species, time, status, and location — on one screen.
Vessel & Device Assignments
Boats, captains, anglers, and handhelds are assigned before the event so every report ties to the right team.
Boundary Verification
Help confirm whether a catch was reported inside the tournament boundary using GPS validation.
Fleet Announcements
Send official announcements, catch confirmations, and updates across the fleet — spoken, so they land, and carried over marine VHF so every boat hears them.
Safety Alerts
Prioritize safety checks, assistance requests, urgent alerts, and emergencies so serious situations rise to the top.
Post-Tournament Reporting
Review catch activity, timing trends, communication history, safety events, and tournament insights — and receive a completion report automatically when the tournament ends.
Built for the hard calls
- Ties. Two releases in the same minute sort by server seconds, not by whose memory of the radio traffic wins.
- Lines out. The clock is the server’s. A report at 3:00:41 for a 3:00 cutoff is flagged automatically instead of argued about.
- Final 15. A hook-up called in the last fifteen minutes is time-stamped and confirmed by the director, then resolved after lines out.
- Boundaries. A catch reported outside the line is flagged the moment it arrives — a review item at 10 AM, not a rumor at weigh-in.
- Protests. Every report keeps its timestamp, position, confirmation code and the boat’s acknowledgment, so a protest is a lookup, not an argument.
Leaderboard live, official scoring your way
NautiSignal runs the live leaderboard from confirmed catches; official scoring can stay in your own system. At any point the director exports every catch in receive order with the official tie-break sequence, each row carrying its status, the reason for any disqualification, and a single counts-for-scoring column.
After the last line
When the tournament ends, the director receives a completion report automatically: catches and species, the hot times and hot zones, conditions at the catches, boat participation, safety events, and how the communication and connectivity held up.
Ready to see it? Watch the demo or hear what the fleet hears.
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Tell us your boat count, dates and format and we’ll build the right setup and a per-boat quote.