A real fishery
Bluegill in the shallows at dawn. Walleye down the break line after dark. Halibut on the bottom in cold salt. Each species has a depth band, a feeding clock and a temperature it wants, and it will not be there if the water is wrong.
iPhone · Free to play · No ads
Read the water.
Read the water.
Set the hook.
Reel Rush Fishing is a fishing game with an actual fishery underneath it. Every one of the 240+ species has a depth range, a feeding clock and a water temperature it wants — and all three decide whether it is down there at all. Learn the pattern and the lake starts giving up its secrets.
240+species to find
12real waters
14rigs that fish differently
0ads & energy timers
How it plays
Every fish is somewhere for a reason
Nothing here spawns at random. Depth, hour, weather and water temperature all have to line up before a fish is willing to be where your bait is.
Twelve real waters
From a warm California bass lake to a Smoky Mountain trout creek, the Chesapeake, the Great Barrier Reef, Cabo's blue water and the cold deep of Kenai Fjords — each drawn from the real place, down to the horizon you fish against.
Fourteen rigs, fourteen techniques
A worm under a bobber you twitch. A spinnerbait you hold to retrieve. A nymph that fishes itself if you leave it alone. A crankbait that digs to its running depth. A spoon they hit on the fall. Each one is worked its own way.
Weather, hour and temperature
Fish dawn for the low-light bite, or after dark for catfish and walleye. Watch a storm gather, break and throw lightning across the water — then feel the bite turn on. There is a thermocline down there, and the fish move with it.
Fight them properly
Hold to reel, keep the tension in the gold, and let a running fish take line before it snaps you off. Big fish sound for the bottom, shake their heads and roll onto their side when they are beaten.
Build the operation
Upgrade rod, reel, line and hooks. Work up from a kayak to a lake cruiser. Set minnow and critter traps, chum the water, enter the derby, mount your best catch in the trophy room and fill in the Fish-o-pedia one species at a time.
Where you fish
Twelve waters, each with its own fishery
Open them up with money you earn on the water — any one you can afford, in whatever order you like. Eight feet of mountain creek at one end, seven hundred feet of North Atlantic at the other, and a legendary fish waiting at the bottom of every one.
- Clear LakeOld water, big bass60 ft
- Cataloochee CreekWild native trout water8 ft
- French Broad RiverAncient water, hard fighters25 ft
- Okefenokee SwampTeeth, mud, and mystery10 ft
- Trinity RiverCoffee water, sandbars, and armour45 ft
- Lake of the WoodsGranite, spruce, and cold clear water210 ft
- Douglas LakeBig water, deep channels140 ft
- Chesapeake BayBrackish, busy, and full of teeth174 ft
- Great Barrier ReefCoral, colour, and things with shoulders180 ft
- Cabo San LucasLicensed big-game charter500 ft
- Kenai FjordsGlacier ice, black water, and giants650 ft
- Gulf of MaineCold rock, deep basins, and giants700 ft
What you throw
Fourteen rigs
Each rig is worked its own way, and each one calls up a different set of fish.
Screens
One thumb, all of it
Cast, steer the boat, work the rig and fight the fish without ever moving your hand.
Fair by design
Fish as long as you like
No ads, no energy meters, no waiting for a timer to refill, and nothing about you leaves your phone.
No ads, ever
There is no ad network in the app and no rewarded video between you and a cast.
No energy timers
Fish for two minutes or two hours. Nothing runs out and nothing asks you to come back tomorrow.
No data collection
No accounts, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. Your progress is saved on your device and nowhere else. Read the privacy policy.
Works offline
The whole game runs on your phone. Airplane mode, a cabin with no bars — it plays the same.
Game Center is optional
Sign in from the Trophy Room for global leaderboards, or never sign in at all. The game does not wait on it.
Purchases skip grind, not gates
Optional cash packs and three premium boats. Everything else in the game is reachable by fishing for it. How purchases work.
Questions
The ones people ask first
Does the game need an internet connection?
No. Everything runs on your device. A connection is only used for App Store purchases and, if you choose to sign in, Game Center leaderboards.
Is it free? What do the purchases do?
The game is free. Optional in-app purchases top up your in-game wallet or unlock three premium boats. They save time — they do not unlock content you could not otherwise reach by fishing.
My purchase did not show up.
Open the Cash Shop — tap the money chip at the top left of the main menu — and tap Restore Purchases at the bottom. Premium boats restore instantly. Cash packs are delivered by Apple and can take a moment on a poor connection.
Will my progress move to a new phone?
Progress is stored on the device, so it moves with an encrypted iPhone backup or a device-to-device transfer, but it does not sync live between devices. Purchased boats always come back with Restore Purchases.
What does the game collect about me?
Nothing. No accounts, no analytics, no advertising identifiers, no third-party SDKs. See the privacy policy.
Tight lines.
Reel Rush Fishing is finished and heading to the App Store. Questions, bug reports and feature ideas are all welcome in the meantime.