Fishing Waypoints
Save Spots, Build Patterns, and Return to Productive Water
Every fishing trip gives you information. With Waypoints in onX Fish, you can save productive spots, mark structure, add notes, and build a personal map of what works over time. Drop a Waypoint when you catch fish, find promising cover, identify a safe route, or want to revisit an area later.
Save Spots, Build Patterns, and Return to Productive Water
Every fishing trip gives you information. With Waypoints in onX Fish, you can save productive spots, mark structure, add notes, and build a personal map of what works over time. Drop a Waypoint when you catch fish, find promising cover, identify a safe route, or want to revisit an area later.
Mark the Spots That Matter
Waypoints help anglers turn lake maps into personalized fishing plans. Use them to save the places you want to remember, from a productive weed edge or rock pile to a boat ramp, shore access point, dock, drop-off, or safe route back to the launch.
- Build a System You Can Return To: Mark where fish were holding, where bait was stacked, where the water temperature changed, or where you found submerged structure worth revisiting.
- Save More Than Just a Pin: Add names, notes, and details that help you remember exactly what made the spot productive.
- Stay Organized on the Water: Separate scouting spots from proven fishing areas, hazards, launch points, and backup plans.
- Plan Before You Launch: Drop pins on likely structure, contour transitions, offshore humps, or shoreline access areas while studying maps at home.
- Return to Productive Water with Confidence: With saved Waypoints, you can return to exact locations confidently instead of trying to line things up from memory.
- Build Your Own Fishing History: The more you fish, the more valuable your map becomes.
Return to Productive Water Faster
Waypoints help anglers remember what worked and get back to it. Whether a specific dock produces when wind hits it, a point turns on before sunset, or a weed edge holds fish in early summer, saved Waypoints help anglers turn one good day into a repeatable pattern.
Jimmy Sell
Avid Outdoorsman in Wisconsin / onX Fish Ambassador
“Being able to share waypoints with my wife is a game-changer. Instead of trying to explain where I’m fishing, I can send the exact spot in onX Fish, and we’re instantly on the same page. It makes planning and communication so much easier!”
How to Use Waypoints in onX Fish
In App
- Open the onX Fish App on your mobile device.
- Find the lake or area you want to mark.
- Tap and hold the map where you want to drop a Waypoint.
- Name your Waypoint based on the spot, structure, or catch.
- Add notes with details like depth, cover, lure, wind, water clarity, or time of day.
- Save the Waypoint so you can return to it later.
On Desktop
- Log in to your account at onxmaps.com/fish/login.
- Search for or zoom into the lake you want to scout.
- Use the Waypoint tool to mark high-potential fishing spots.
- Add names and notes to organize your plan.
- Save your Waypoints and access them later in the mobile app.
Save the Spots Worth Coming Back To
Mark productive water, add trip notes, and build your own fishing map with Waypoints in onX Fish.
Frequently Asked Questions
Waypoints are saved map markers that help anglers remember important fishing locations. You can use them to mark productive spots, structure, access points, safe routes, and areas to revisit
Use Waypoints to mark productive docks, weed edges, drop-offs, rock piles, points, brush, spawning areas, offshore structure, boat ramps, shore access, and safe travel routes.
Yes. Add notes such as depth, cover type, water clarity, lure, retrieve speed, wind direction, time of day, weather, and fish size to make each Waypoint more useful over time.
Waypoints help you track what worked, return to productive areas, and build patterns across multiple trips. Instead of relying on memory, you can save location-specific details and use them to plan your next outing.
You can. You can scout a lake, mark high-potential spots, and build a starting plan before you launch.
They do. Waypoints can be used alongside Offline Maps so anglers can access saved spots and trip plans when cell service is limited or unavailable.
Sure thing. When paired with lake maps, imagery, access information, and other onX Fish tools, Waypoints help you create a focused plan for unfamiliar water before you arrive.