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Self-monitoring rod system
Bite alerts on the water. Find your next fishing window.
SmartStick monitors rod motion, alerts you to likely bites, and helps you review casts, hookset attempts, and fishing activity. Add catch photos and notes to keep a record of your trips.
Connect one rod at a time and switch rods freely. Pro adds simultaneous rod connections and expanded analytics and planning tools.
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Hear an alert when SmartStick detects a likely bite. Use Recent bites in the app to review bite alerts from your current session.
Fishing log and analytics
Review fishing time, cast counts, and active days. Use Daily Trend to see how fishing time, casts, and detected strike activity varied from day to day.
Save catches, photos, and notes in your fishing log.
See your detected casts and any hookset attempts linked to them. Add notes, correct false detections, and manually log casts or hooksets the app may have missed.
Conditions Matching
Conditions Matching compares the forecast with your fishing history to suggest upcoming hours at nearby places you’ve fished. With Excelscion Pro, it can also draw on pooled fishing activity shared by participating anglers where enough community data is available.
App plans
Both plans include core bite and activity alerts, manual fishing logs with notes and photos, and access to saved trip summaries.
Included with your rod
$0/month
For multiple rods and expanded insights
$5.99/month
Saved manual logs and trip summaries remain readable after the detailed event retention period. Conditions Heatmap and Conditions Matching require internet access and enough fishing data to return results. The Pro subscription is separate from the rod purchase.
How it works
The inline rod system monitors motion and vibration behavior during casts, retrieves, pauses, hooksets, and idle waiting periods.
SmartStick filters background rod movement before sending bite alerts. Adjust the app’s conditions setting based on how wind and water move your rod.
When the rod sees a stronger signal, the app can notify anglers that a rod likely deserves attention.
Each session can become part of a fishing log with casts, hooksets, catches, photos, notes, conditions, and trends.
Rod integration
SmartStick is positioned as an inline system built into the fishing rod experience, so anglers can keep their normal setup while the rod and app monitor rod motion over Bluetooth.
Species studies
Choose a marine-life-inspired color study, then our resident artist hand-crafts your SmartStick into a one-of-one interpretation. Every rod is made by hand; no two pieces are alike.
Atlantic tarpon
Pearl-silver shimmer, sea-glass flashes, and a graphite lateral line.
Blue marlin
Cobalt depth broken by electric-blue striping and a silver flash.
Clownfish
High-visibility tangerine with soft white bands framed in black.
Brook trout
Deep forest green, ember-red belly warmth, and bronze vermiculation.
Mahi-mahi
A bright chartreuse-to-turquoise fade with a quicksilver flash.
Giant Pacific octopus
Oxblood and bronze with a subtle, shifting sucker-pattern detail.
Green sea turtle
Layered olive scutes, amber edging, and an antique-gold detail.
Lionfish
Fine wine-red striping over ivory with a restrained gold highlight.
Explore the color studies. Each piece is individually handcrafted—an interpretation, never a reproduction.
Why it expands beyond alerts
Monitor rod motion and vibration patterns to identify events that may deserve attention while the angler keeps fishing normally.
SmartStick filters background rod movement and alerts you to likely bites. Adjust the app’s conditions setting based on how wind and water move your rod to help minimize false alerts.
Cast smoothly, reel in steadily, and use SmartStick’s feedback to work toward 10 clean cast-and-retrieve cycles. When you fish, clean technique can help SmartStick distinguish hookset attempts from other rod movement. A clearer fishing record helps SmartStick suggest when to fish by comparing the forecast with conditions from your past trips.
What to expect
SmartStick filters background rod movement and alerts you to likely bites. Detection can vary with water, weather, lure, rod handling, and fishing style. Alert delivery depends on the rod’s Bluetooth connection and your phone’s permissions and notification settings.
Alerts become part of a broader record: casts, hooksets, bite activity, catches, photos, lure choices, notes, and conditions stored for future review.
The first customer release requires iOS 26 or later, or Android 7 or later with Bluetooth Low Energy. App information may be delayed, inaccurate or unavailable. SmartStick is not a navigation, weather-warning or emergency system.
SmartStick helps anglers know when a rod likely deserves attention, then keeps a richer record of what happened so future decisions can get smarter.
Product availability
SmartStick is in development. We are not accepting signups, reservations, deposits or orders at this time.
Before buying: the first customer app release requires an iPhone running iOS 26 or later, or an Android phone running Android 7 or later with Bluetooth Low Energy. iPhones that cannot run iOS 26 are not supported.
Read the rod return policy · Read the SmartStick Limited Warranty · App compatibility and limitations
System components
Questions
Yes. Connect any one rod at a time for free, and switch rods freely. You only need Excelscion Pro ($5.99/month) to connect multiple rods at once, up to 5 simultaneously. The subscription is separate from the hardware price. Compare app plans and Pro benefits.
It includes bite alert behavior, but the bigger idea is rod-level intelligence: signal filtering, cast and hookset analytics, session history, user-submitted fishing data, and condition matching over time.
Yes. Your saved trip summaries and manual journal entries, including notes and photos, remain available. Free includes a seven-day analytics view. Pro adds longer analytics views so you can explore patterns across months and years.
SmartStick filters background rod movement and alerts you to likely bites. It can miss some bites, and other rod movement can still trigger an alert. Adjust the app’s conditions setting based on how wind and water move your rod to help minimize false bite alerts. Build clean technique with Cast and Retrieve Practice, where SmartStick gives you feedback on each cast and retrieve.
Inline integration keeps the experience natural. Anglers fish the way they already do, while the connected rod and app detect activity and record it for review.
Yes. The product story includes user-submitted catches, images, notes, lure choices, and condition details so the fishing log becomes more useful than sensor data alone.