Terms of Service

1. About Our Service

The Cast Report provides AI-generated, personalized fishing reports for California anglers, including conditions summaries, angler recommendations, tackle and technique suggestions, and regulatory information. Reports are delivered via email and, for paid subscribers, stored in a user dashboard.

Our reports — including all regulatory information and any tackle, bait, or technique recommendations — are intended solely as a general planning aid. They do not constitute legal advice, and are not a substitute for independently verifying current regulations. See Section 4 below for important details.

2. Accounts

Anonymous visitors may generate one free fishing report without creating an account. Beyond that, an account with an active paid subscription (see Section 3) is required to generate additional reports or access dashboard features. You must provide accurate information when creating an account, and you are responsible for:

3. Subscriptions and Billing

The Cast Report offers two paid subscription tiers:

An account with an active subscription is required to generate reports beyond the single anonymous free report described in Section 2. For paid subscriptions:

4. Disclaimer — Regulatory, Tackle, and Fishing Information

California fishing regulations are complex, vary by specific water body, location within a water body, and season, and are subject to change at any time — including through emergency closures, drought restrictions, fishery management actions, and mid-season regulatory amendments that may not yet be reflected in the data sources our reports are generated from.

You are solely responsible for independently verifying all applicable regulations — including open seasons, bag and possession limits, size limits, gear and bait restrictions, and any water-body-specific or location-specific rules — directly with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) at wildlife.ca.gov/regulations, or by contacting CDFW directly, before you fish. Do not rely on our reports as your sole source of regulatory information.

Tackle, bait, and technique recommendations in our reports are generated based on our AI system's interpretation of applicable regulations at the time the report is generated. These recommendations may not account for regulations that have changed, been added, or been repealed since that time, or for regulations our data sources do not currently include. These recommendations are illustrative suggestions only, not a certification of legal compliance, and you remain solely responsible for ensuring that any gear, bait, or technique you actually use complies with current regulations, regardless of what a report states.

This disclaimer is incorporated into, and should be read together with, the Limitation of Liability in Section 8 below.

5. User-Submitted Content

If you submit a photograph of a catch, an optional comment, or other content through our service ("User Content"), the following applies:

See our Privacy Policy for additional detail on how photo and comment submissions are collected, stored, and used.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

7. Intellectual Property

All content, design, and code on The Cast Report is owned by us or our licensors. Reports generated for you are for your personal use only. You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from our content without our written permission. User Content you submit remains yours, subject to the license described in Section 5.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, The Cast Report shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of our service, including but not limited to any damages arising from reliance on regulatory information, tackle or technique recommendations, or conditions data as described in Section 4. Our total liability to you for any claims arising from these terms or your use of our service shall not exceed the amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim.

9. Termination

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account at any time for violation of these terms. You may close your account at any time by contacting us at support@thecastreport.com. Upon termination, your right to use our service will immediately cease.

10. Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any disputes arising from these terms shall be resolved in the courts of California.

11. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Service at any time. We will notify you of material changes by email or by posting a notice on our website. Your continued use of our service after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms.