BassLimit support
BassLimit reads the fishing regulations that apply to one waterbody and one species, and says them in a sentence instead of twenty pages. This page explains what those cards mean and where the figures come from.
Write to us: hi@sirikarlsen.sbs
What a card shows
A card in the app, roughly. The line at the bottom is the important one.
Size, bag limit, season and permitted gear differ by region, by waterbody, by species and by month. One number is almost never the right number everywhere, which is why every card is tied to a place, a fish and a date — and why the app asks you to pick a species before it says anything.
Under the facts you can ask about the same water in your own words, or tap one of the prepared questions: fishing from a boat, how many rods are allowed, night fishing, what to do with a fish under the limit.
Where the figures come from
A checked regulation
The app holds a document for this region: the authority that issued it, its title and the date it was revised, with a link that opens the document itself. This is the strongest thing a card can say.
A digest of public pages
No checked document, but public pages exist. The card says so on its badge and names which place those pages cover — sometimes the water itself, sometimes only the wider province. Treat it as a pointer to the pages, not as the rule.
Nothing published yet
Nothing official for this region is available to the app, so it states nothing rather than guessing. You get the facts the app genuinely knows about the water and no invented numbers.
The document has the last word, not this app
Every summary is a retelling of an official text written by a model, and a retelling can be wrong, incomplete or out of date. BassLimit is a reference tool. It is not a legal document, it is not legal advice, and it cannot be produced as a defence.
Before you fish, open the source the card links to and check the numbers there — that link, not this app, is what governs. Where the two disagree, the official document is right.
Finding a water
Location is optional. Allowed, it shows the waters around you and works out which region's rules apply; coordinates are used for that and are not stored or shared. Refused, everything still works: search a lake, river or shore by name, or hold the map to set where you are by hand.
If nothing turns up inside the radius, widen the search — up to 100 km — or try the name of a nearby town. Saving a water from its card keeps it in My waters, and what you last read for it stays readable with no connection.
Questions
Why does it want a species first?
Because the rules do. Minimum size, bag limit and closed season are written per fish, so a card without a species would be an average of things that do not average.
The rules look out of date
The card carries the revision date of the document it read. If that date is older than a change you know about, trust the linked source and write to us — say which water and which rule, and we will look at what the app is reading.
"No verified source for this region"
Exactly what it says: nothing checked and no usable public page for that water. It is not a fault to report unless you know of an official page we have missed — in which case, send the link.
The rules will not load
Reading a new card needs a connection; the map, the search and your saved waters do not. A build with no provider key says so plainly and keeps everything else working.
Can I change centimetres to inches?
Yes, in the profile, along with your name, your avatar, the app's language and the fishing methods you use. The units you pick travel with the question, so the answer comes back in them.
Is any of this paid for?
No. No subscription, no purchase, no limit on how many waters you may read.
Write to us
One mailbox
hi@sirikarlsen.sbsAnswered within two working days. For anything about a rule, four lines settle it faster than a paragraph:
- the waterbody and the species;
- what the card said;
- what the official document says instead, with a link if you have one;
- your iPhone model and its iOS version.
We cannot tell you whether a particular catch was legal, and we cannot answer for an authority. What we can do is fix what the app reads and says.
Your data
Before the first card is read, the app shows a data-processing notice and you can decline it. Declining leaves the map, the search and your saved waters working; only the rules reports and the questions stop.
Sent when a card is read
The waterbody's name and coordinates, its administrative region, the species you picked, your chosen units and the question you type — plus the fishing method and preferences if you set them in your profile. That is the list.
Who reads it
A general-purpose model from Google, reached through the Runware API, which forwards the request and returns the answer. That work happens on their servers. The app names the same model in its own notice.
Kept on the phone
Your saved waters, the reports and question history per water and species, and your preferences. Reset data in the settings clears all three, and deleting the app does the same. Nothing syncs, so a new phone starts empty.
Retention, identifiers and analytics are set out in the privacy policy; requests about your data go to the address above.
What it needs
An iPhone on iOS 15.0 or later. The app speaks English, French, Polish, Finnish and Bulgarian, and the language can follow the phone or be set on its own.
Support page for BassLimit · updated 14 September 2026 · hi@sirikarlsen.sbs