Waterlands

Waterlands — Fishing & Hunting Session Tracker Waterlands is the wrist companion to the Waterlands mobile app. Start a session on your watch, log catches or shots with a button press, and sync everything to your phone over Bluetooth when you're back in cell range. No Garmin Connect upload, no cloud account, no extra battery-eating data connection — your session stays on your watch until you tap Sync in the phone app. Built for anglers and bird hunters who want to map their day without pulling out a phone in the rain, the snow, or the middle of a float. Features • One-tap session start with GPS track recording (saved as a standard FIT activity). • Log a catch or shot with a single menu action — each event is stamped with time and location. • Live home screen: time of day, elapsed time, catch/shot count, and a GPS fix indicator. • Pending-sync counter so you always know if there's data still waiting on the watch. • Sessions are stored persistently on the watch — power off, change batteries, swap activities; nothing is lost until you've successfully synced. • Works fully offline. The phone connection is only needed at sync time. Activity types • Float fishing • Wade fishing • Lake fishing • Saltwater fishing • Duck hunting • Upland bird hunting • Float fishing • Wade fishing • Lake fishing • Saltwater fishing • Duck hunting • Upland bird hunting • Whitewater (optional, enabled in Settings) The activity type drives the species/event list in the phone app and changes the on-watch label between "catches" and "shots." How sync works Open the Waterlands phone app and tap Sync. The watch hands over any pending sessions over BLE — typically in a few seconds per session. Once the phone acknowledges receipt, the session is cleared from the watch. If the phone isn't nearby, just try again later; nothing expires. Requirements • The free Waterlands companion app for iOS or Android (required — this watch app does nothing on its own). • Bluetooth pairing between your watch and phone via Garmin Connect Mobile. • Location permission enabled for the watch app. Supported devices fēnix 6, 7, 8, and E series • Forerunner 55, 165, 255, 265, 570, 970 • Enduro 3 • Instinct 2 and 3 (including Solar and AMOLED variants) • Venu 2, 3, 4, X1, Sq 2 • vívoactive 5 and 6 • D2 Mach 2 Pro Privacy Waterlands does not upload your tracks to Garmin Connect, does not contact any third-party server from the watch, and does not require an account on the watch side. All sync is direct watch-to-phone over Bluetooth. Support Found a bug or want a new activity type? File an issue at the Waterlands repo or contact us through the phone app.

The moment: a span of the session, marked from the wrist. Press Start moment when something starts happening and Stop moment when it stops, and everything in between is carried as one entry with a duration. While it runs, the home screen shows MOMENT 2 · 4:12 live — so video shot alongside the session can be lined up by wall clock and cut to the span. Saving mid-moment keeps it, with the duration so far. Log water temp — from the menu during a fishing session, whenever you put a thermometer in the water. One step: the number. Take it as many times as you take it. Also since your last update, if you have been away a while: hatches and markers you log on the wrist (1.5.0), and the Rowers screen that tracks time on the oars for a float trip (1.4.0). Moments, markers and hatches all now sync to your account, so the session you pull up later carries everything you marked on the water. Update the Waterlands phone app first. A phone app that predates moments drops them from its import, permanently — the import is acknowledged to the watch. The sync protocol itself is unchanged.