Create your angler profile
Do it at fishingcodex.com — it takes a couple of minutes. Pick a display name and a handle, and that is your public page. It costs nothing.
For anglers
Publish your logbook. Get paid for what you already write down.
It's simple on your end: make a profile, connect Stripe, build your logbook in the free app, then pick which entries to publish. Buyers pay you directly for the entries they unlock, and the public only ever sees a blurred ~10 km zone — never your pin.
What it involves
Connect Stripe so the money lands in your bank
Stripe is the payments company. Money lands straight in your own bank account. They handle the ID and bank details directly — we never see or hold any of it. You only need this to charge; free entries work without it.
Install the free app and build your logbook
Import straight from your photo library, or bring your waypoints across from your sonar or chartplotter (a simple GPX, KML or CSV export), then add a photo, a name and a description. Everything you import stays 100% private: it only builds your own private map, and nothing goes public unless you choose it.
Choose what to publish, back on fishingcodex.com
You manually choose which entries to publish and set your own price — a single entry (yours forever for the buyer), a live logbook subscription (monthly or yearly), or drop a few free ones to pull in readers. Each entry takes under a minute to publish. Entries captured in the app can be published at any time; imported entries can be published during the early-adopter window below.
That is it
No exclusivity, no content commitments, and nothing changes with your channel. You can withdraw anything you publish, whenever you want.
What you get
Get paid for what you already write down
Buyers pay you directly, so the money goes straight into your Stripe account and never through us. The same entry can be unlocked by unlimited buyers — publish once, earn ongoing.
Your exact location is never shown publicly
The map only shows a blurred zone of roughly 10 km, and once someone has paid they get the real pin inside the app to navigate to the location. The exact location is never revealed on any public page, in search results, or to anyone who has not bought or claimed — and the blur is identical for every viewer, so no amount of comparing or paying buys a closer look.
Your water is protected while your entries are live
Every published entry locks its area — roughly a 500 m radius — for about 90 days, so no other angler can publish over your water while it is active. Withdrawing an entry ends the lock early, and when a lock expires only catches logged after it ended can be published there, so nobody can hoard captures and pounce the moment the clock runs out.
A place to promote your channel
You can also post on the public feed inside the app to promote your channel — catch photos with your own social handle on them, no entry or location attached unless you want one.
How the money works
You set your own prices. A single entry is a one-off sale; a live logbook subscription is recurring income while people stay subscribed — you keep logging new entries into it and they appear automatically on your subscribers' private maps; if they unsubscribe, the entries disappear.
What you earn depends on your logbook — no income promises here. Fishing Codex takes a 15% platform fee; payment-processing (Stripe) fees also apply — anglers typically net around 80%. Money goes directly to the angler's own Stripe account; Fishing Codex never holds it. You keep the rest, and one-off entry sales sit on top of any subscription income.
And you know your audience better than anyone — think about how many people want to know where you were fishing. Your advice could help someone catch their very first fish and turn their first trip into a day they'll never forget.
Whether anything sells depends on your water, your entries and your reputation — nobody can promise you sales, and we won't.
The founding window
Your archive counts — for now
There's a limited founding-window bonus: entries you import (photos or sonar waypoints) can be published, but once that window closes only catches captured in the app can ever be published. Early anglers build their readership first — the window is when decades of old entries can still count, so it pays to be quick.
The exact terms
It is a single global window of 90 days — the same window for every angler worldwide, once — and up to 50 of these legacy listings can be live at a time (withdrawing one frees a slot). When it closes, it closes permanently: from then on, only in-app-camera captures can be published.
Good to know
- You must be 18 or older to charge for entries. (A Fishing Codex account itself is 13+.)
- Charging needs a country Stripe Standard supports for payouts — your dashboard checks yours instantly. Free entries work regardless.
- An entry needs real GPS and at least one photo before it can be published.
- Paid entries start at $2.99 USD. You set the price above that.
- Free entries go live straight away, even before Stripe approves you; a paid entry appears to buyers as soon as Stripe approves your account, with no need to re-publish.
- Log a new entry into your subscription later and every current subscriber gets it automatically.
Questions anglers ask
What does it cost to publish my logbook on Fishing Codex?
Nothing to start. Creating a profile, installing the app, and publishing entries are all free. Fishing Codex takes a 15% platform fee; payment-processing (Stripe) fees also apply — anglers typically net around 80%. Money goes directly to the angler's own Stripe account; Fishing Codex never holds it.
Do I have to give up exclusivity or commit to posting content?
No. There is no exclusivity, no content commitment, and nothing changes with your own channel. You choose which entries to publish and what to charge, and you can withdraw any of them at any time — anyone who already unlocked or claimed an entry keeps the access they paid for.
Is my exact fishing location ever public?
No. Public pages and the public map show only a fuzzed zone of roughly 10 km — no dots, no markers, nothing to tap through to a real point. The exact pin is released privately, inside the app, only to each person who buys or claims that entry.
Can a buyer just share my exact location with everyone?
A buyer does receive the real pin — that is what they paid for — and no platform can physically stop a person repeating what they know. What changes is the exposure: nothing is ever broadcast publicly, so the audience drops from the whole internet to the people who actually bought or claimed. And there's enough fish in the ocean to share: good locations are not a fixed supply, and anglers find new water all the time.
Which of my entries can I publish?
An entry needs GPS coordinates and at least one photo, and the catch must have been captured with the in-app camera. The one exception is the one-time global 90-day early-adopter window, during which entries imported from your own fishing history can also be published, with at most 50 of these legacy listings live at a time. Once that window closes it closes permanently, and only in-app captures can be published.
How and when do I get paid?
Stripe pays out to your own bank on Stripe's own payout schedule, which depends on your country, bank, and verification status. You verify your identity once on Stripe's own pages — Fishing Codex never sees your bank or ID details, and never holds your money.
NZ legal note — selling access, not fish
Fishing Codex sells access to fishing locations — never fish. New Zealand law prohibits selling recreationally caught fish (Ministry for Primary Industries). Selling knowledge of where to fish is a separate, legal activity. See the MPI recreational fishing rules for details. You stay responsible for checking local rules, closures, private property, marine reserves, protected areas, rāhui and customary restrictions before you publish.
Questions?
Ask us anything before you list — three ways to reach the Fishing Codex team.
For account, payout or listing problems, the Support page routes you fastest.
Ready to publish?
Create your angler profile and connect Stripe — free entries work before Stripe approval and build your readership.
How getting paid for your logbook works
The full guide: privacy model, lockdown, early-adopter window, how to start.
The angler's playbook
Free entries first, reviews and badges, then price your best entries — how anglers build trust.
How Fishing Codex works
Fees, location privacy, unlocking and claiming — the straight answers.