Fishing Charts: specialized data for better catches

In certain areas, Aqua Map offers dedicated fishing charts on top of the standard nautical charts, giving you access to exclusive information: fishing spots by species, general restrictions and special regulations, sea bottom details including natural and artificial reef categories, and a lot more. If fishing is part of why you're on the water, these charts are genuinely worth having.

The Fishing Charts menu

You'll find the Fishing Charts settings page from the main Settings menu, where you can view the three types of fishing charts currently available in Aqua Map. Each one has its own on/off toggle, plus a "Settings" arrow leading to a dedicated page with the full set of options for that data type.

Aqua Map Italy Fishing Charts

Italy's entire coastline is covered by official nautical charts sourced from the IIM (the Italian Navy's Hydrographic Institute), plus Corsica, sourced from the SHOM (the French Hydrographic Institute). These provide depths, spot soundings, navigational aids, port plans, and everything else needed for safe navigation, along with detailed land-side information like roads, points of interest, and trails.

On top of those official charts, the Fishing Charts layer adds fishing-specific information from both boat and shore, plus spearfishing data, covering hundreds of fishing points and areas across the country, as follows.

Fishing points and areas , covering fish species, techniques, bait types where available, plus any special instructions or restrictions .
Special regulation zones , including Marine Protected Areas and other fishing-related restrictions.
General location info not typically found on standard nautical charts, like shoal names and other local references.
Italian Coast Guard offices , every District, Captaincy, Local Office, and Beach Delegation, complete with address and phone number.
Fishing equipment stores along the coast, also with address and phone number.
Bathymetric lines at 1-meter intervals down to 50 meters, 5-meter intervals down to 200 meters, and 10-meter intervals beyond that, paired with realistic depth coloring (darker shades for deeper water). This level of detail makes sudden depth changes easy to spot, exactly the kind of feature worth knowing about when you're hunting for a good fishing spot.

Coverage spans every Italian marine region, including the upper Adriatic.

Italy Fishing Charts settings

From the dedicated settings page, you can enable the fishing charts overlay, access the Italy Fishing Charts store to purchase specific chart areas, and enable or disable individual layers within the fishing charts.

StrikeLines HardBottomHD

StrikeLines HardBottomHD charts offer the most detailed mapping available of fish habitat on Florida's Gulf side, covering more than a dozen categories of natural and artificial reef, each labeled and color-coded by type, namely:

Low natural, natural hardbottom with minimal vertical relief, like cracked limestone or "Swiss cheese" bottom;
Big natural, natural hardbottom with significant vertical relief, boulders, rockpiles, ledges, and escarpments;
Artificials, man-made reef structures like wrecks, reef modules, and construction materials;
Springs, sinks, and potholes, naturally formed seafloor holes from underground water flow and erosion. Springs typically have freshwater outflow, sinks usually don't, and potholes are smaller depressions formed by surface erosion or fish activity.

With these charts, you'll never have to guess whether you're in the right spot, just navigate to one of the marked hardbottom areas and drop a line. Coverage covers more than 130.000 marked hardbottom areas and artificial reefs, from the Florida Panhandle down to the Keys, many of which have never been published anywhere before.

StrikeLines HardBottomHD charts are produced by StrikeLines Tampa LLC and distributed through Aqua Map.

StrikeLines HardBottomHD Settings

From the dedicated settings page, you can enable the HardBottomHD overlay and enable or disable individual layers within it. Worth knowing: these charts can also be purchased directly through the StrikeLines website.

StrikeLines 3D charts

StrikeLines 3D charts take things a step further with high-resolution seafloor mapping, letting you see exactly where rocks, reefs, ledges, and other structures sit, in real time, right on your device.

Built for serious anglers, these high-definition maps turn your chart into a genuine tool for finding hidden fishing spots, highlighting both natural habitat (hardbottom rocks, ledges, reefs) and artificial structures like pipelines and shipwrecks. The Aqua Map version is continuously updated with the latest seafloor data.

These charts are produced by StrikeLines Tampa LLC and, unlike HardBottomHD, are distributed exclusively through the StrikeLines website, not through Aqua Map directly.

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