Fish Washington

The app re downloads every time you open it, and continually crashes at the end of the download. This has been a constant issue for the entire summer of 2023 regardless of service, wifi strength, iPhone or Android, or deleting and reinstalling the app.

I have used a lot of different state regulations. Washington’s is by far in the front of line of being easy to use and clear on regulations. Highly recommended.

Every time you open the app it spends five minutes downloading new regulations and then another five “merging” them. One of these operations fails about half the time. Until both are done you can’t use the app. There seems to be no concept of caching the regs, only getting diffs for the area you are in, rather than those for 800 lakes when all you want to know is if you can keep chinook or not. By the time the regs are downloaded your fish is dead. This app could be so good and so useful if it cached the regs and was faster but for all the years it’s been out, it has never been improved and remains completely useless.

I thought this app was pretty useless until I read another users review that said to delete and reload it if it doesn’t load the e regulations. I also saw this in use on my buddies phone so I knew it worked (his phone is an android and mine is an iPhone). Deleted and reloaded 3 times, it still wouldn’t work. I restarted my phone and presto! It’s now working. I love being able to click on a body of water and get the rules! It’s nice that it shows boat launches on all the lakes too although, it doesn’t seem to show the puget sound launches. It’d be sweet if it had those on there!

This app just loops around getting you nowhere. Looks like it needs an update.

I have an iPhone 13 mini, and have never been able to use the app. Every time I open it, it downloads updates and tries to merge them into the local database, but never completes. I’ve deleted the app and reinstalled it, and my phone is up to date. Outside of the app it’s very difficulty to get specific location advisories, and so many places are closed for Kings right now. Very disappointed.

All this all does it update itself and you can’t even use it.

Great app overall, but please for the love of god allow the app to update the regulations in the background. I allow background refresh for the app on my device but it ALWAYS spends 2-3 mins downloading the latest regulations every time I open the app.

Pretty solid and useful app for when it actually works and loads. It can take an extremely long time to load a single section and usually that also involves restarting the app multiple times. As in early 2000s dialup long…….

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