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The inline rod system monitors motion and vibration behavior during casts, retrieves, pauses, hooksets, and idle waiting periods.
Self-monitoring rod system
Excelscion SmartStick
Bite alerts now. Know when current conditions match your best trips.
SmartStick is built inline to help rods monitor high-confidence bite events, reduce low-yield signal noise, and pair every session with a fishing log, cast analytics, photos, conditions, and trends.
Connect any one rod free. Connect up to 5 at once with Excelscion Pro — $5.99/month.
Connect one rod at a time and switch rods freely. A paid subscription is required only when connecting multiple rods at once.
Compare app plans →- Inline
- Integrated in the rod
- Multi-rod
- Requires Pro · $5.99/month
- Log + app
- History, photos, analytics
Immediate value
Self-monitoring rods for the moments you cannot watch every second.
SmartStick's most direct use case is alerting anglers when a rod deserves attention. That matters during multi-rod fishing, night fishing, bank fishing, and long waits where you cannot keep every rod in view.
Multi-rod spreads
Track up to 5 rods simultaneously with Excelscion Pro ($5.99/month).
Night sessions
Use alerts when visual bite watching is harder.
Relaxed fishing
Let the rod call for attention when the signal is stronger.
SmartStick
3 rods active
Rod 2
High-confidence bite event
Rod 1Waiting
Rod 2Attention
Rod 3Quiet
How it works
Detect the signal, filter the noise, save the session.
Filter
SmartStick is designed to reduce low-yield signals such as light nibbles, environmental interference, rod handling, and background movement.
Alert
When the rod sees a stronger signal, the app can notify anglers that a rod likely deserves attention.
Remember
Each session can become part of a fishing log with casts, hooksets, catches, photos, notes, conditions, and trends.
Rod integration
Designed to feel like a rod, not another gadget.
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 handle signal monitoring in the background.
Species studies
Individually handcrafted. Shaped by the life beneath the surface.
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.
Silver King
Atlantic tarpon
Pearl-silver shimmer, sea-glass flashes, and a graphite lateral line.
Bluewater
Blue marlin
Cobalt depth broken by electric-blue striping and a silver flash.
Anemone
Clownfish
High-visibility tangerine with soft white bands framed in black.
Coldwater
Brook trout
Deep forest green, ember-red belly warmth, and bronze vermiculation.
Neon Run
Mahi-mahi
A bright chartreuse-to-turquoise fade with a quicksilver flash.
Cephalopod
Giant Pacific octopus
Oxblood and bronze with a subtle, shifting sucker-pattern detail.
Carapace
Green sea turtle
Layered olive scutes, amber edging, and an antique-gold detail.
Spine & Stripe
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.
App plans
Connect any one rod free.
Connect up to 5 at once with Pro.
Switch rods freely on the free plan. For simultaneous connections and expanded insights, Excelscion Pro is $5.99/month.
Included with your rod
Free app access
$0/month
- Connect any one rod at a time; switch rods freely.
- Receive core bite and activity notifications.
- Save up to 10 manual journal entries with notes and photos.
- Review your last 7 days of automatic summaries and analytics, when sufficient data exists.
- Explore personal Conditions Heatmap and Conditions Matching using your own fishing history.
Saved journal notes and photos remain accessible beyond 7 days. The 7-day limit applies to automatic summaries and analytics history.
For multiple rods and expanded insights
Excelscion Pro
$5.99/month
- Connect up to 5 rods simultaneously.
- Keep an unlimited fishing journal with notes and photos.
- Explore fishing trends across months, seasons, and your recorded history.
- View automatic fishing summaries older than 7 days.
- Access community-powered Conditions Heatmap and Matching where coverage is available.
The Pro subscription is separate from the hardware price.
Companion app
Your fishing log becomes a pattern library.
The app gives the hardware a longer life than a single notification: a rod-connected fishing journal where anglers can review casts, hookset events, high-probability bite events, trends, catches, photos, notes, and the conditions behind their best trips.
Session analytics
Cast count128
Hooksets7
Probable bites18
Saved catches4
Retrieve trend
Fishing log
Catch photos, lure, notes, weather, water, and location context.
Why it expands beyond alerts
From rod signal to fishing intelligence.
Signal detection
Monitor rod motion and vibration patterns to identify events that may deserve attention while the angler keeps fishing normally.
Signal filtering
Reduce low-yield signals from light nibbles, environmental movement, rod handling, and background interference.
Cast-by-cast history
Track cast volume, hookset events, high-probability bite events, and session trends instead of relying only on memory.
Condition matching
Compare current weather, water, season, and session context with prior productive trips to surface patterns worth testing again.
What to expect
Useful alerts. Clear expectations.
What SmartStick is built to do
SmartStick is being built to identify high-confidence rod events, reduce common noise sources, and help anglers review patterns across sessions. Detection can vary by water, weather, lure, rod handling, and fishing style, so the product focuses on useful signal guidance rather than claiming perfect classification of every fish contact.
What the app adds
Alerts become part of a broader record: casts, hooksets, high-probability bite events, catches, photos, lure choices, notes, and conditions stored for future review.
App compatibility and limitations
Requires iOS 15 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.
The promise
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
Not yet available for purchase.
SmartStick is in development. We are not accepting signups, reservations, deposits or orders at this time.
Read the SmartStick Limited Warranty · App compatibility and limitations
System components
Hardware, app, and angler-entered context.
- Rod integration
- Inline smart module built into the fishing rod experience.
- Alerts
- High-confidence bite event notifications for supported setups.
- Analytics
- Cast counts, hookset events, session trends, and event history.
- Fishing log
- Catches, photos, notes, lure choices, conditions, and trip history.
- Matching
- Compare current conditions with prior productive sessions.
Questions
Questions anglers usually ask.
Can I switch rods without a subscription?
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.
Is SmartStick a bite alarm?
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.
Do my journal notes and photos expire after 7 days?
No. Saved journal notes and photos remain accessible beyond 7 days. Free app access includes up to 10 manual journal entries; the 7-day history limit applies to automatic fishing summaries and analytics. Pro includes unlimited journaling and access to older automatic summaries and analytics history.
Will it detect every bite?
No. The conservative claim is high-confidence bite event alerts and reduced low-yield noise, not perfect detection in every fishing condition.
Why put the device inline in the rod?
Inline integration keeps the experience natural. Anglers fish the way they already do, while the rod and app capture signals, alerts, and session data in the background.
Can users add their own data?
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.