Pick your fishing region, where you're fishing, and what you're targeting. Get the best rig, tackle sizes, bait guidance, and a matched rod in seconds.
Start with your location. Add a target species only if you know what you're after.
Matched from your location. Start here, then compare the alternatives below.
Two hooks sit above a bottom weight so bait hovers just off the sand. Simple to tie and easy to re-rig on the beach, which makes it the standard starting point for surf and pier fishing.
Global mode uses worldwide marine and weather data. Detailed tide curves currently use NOAA stations in the United States; outside the US, RigMyFish shows the conditions it can verify globally instead of inventing tide predictions.
See wind, waves, swell, sea temperature when available, and sunrise/sunset. Tide predictions are shown only when a verified tide provider is available.
Realistic species visuals make it easier to recognize the fish you are targeting.
The site is designed around the questions anglers actually ask at the beach, pier, dock, or tackle counter.
Why we built it →Surf, pier, jetty, boat, kayak, river, or lake.
Optional. Narrow the setup to the fish you're targeting.
For ocean trips, see the next 24–48 hours and stronger tide-movement windows.
Get exact line, leader, hook, sinker, bait, and rod guidance.
Original visual guides show the structure, current, depth changes, and edges worth testing in surf, pier, jetty, lake, and river water.
Troughs, sandbars, rip channels, and wash zones.
Pilings, seams, bait schools, and outer corners.
Rock edges, pockets, seams, and drop-offs.
Weed lines, docks, points, eddies, pools, and current breaks.
The matcher gives you the fast answer. These deeper guides explain the conditions and tradeoffs behind it.
Running sinker, paternoster, ganged-hook, surf, estuary, and boat setups.
Pulley, paternoster, flapper, and running-ledger layouts explained.
Regional names, metric tackle, sinker choices, and shore-fishing setups.
Stories, observations, and encouraging notes add the human side of fishing to the rigs, species, bait, and conditions you already use on RigMyFish.
A reminder that a successful fishing trip does not always need a full cooler. Sometimes the real win is showing up, slowing down, and learning one new thing about the water.
When nothing seems to work, the trip can still tell you something useful. Treat slow fishing as information instead of failure.
The most memorable catch on a trip may belong to someone fishing beside you for the first time. Keep the setup simple and make the experience the goal.
Season and regulation context is separated from practical rig guidance and linked to primary sources when applicable. Current regulations always take precedence over site summaries.
Yes. Every rig diagram, gear list, rod recommendation, knot guide, and bait page is free with no account, no app, and no ads to scroll past.
Pick where you're fishing (surf, pier, jetty, boat, kayak, river, or lake) and optionally a target species. RigMyFish returns the best-matched rig with a diagram and exact gear list, a backup rig or two, and a recommended rod.
RigMyFish covers species and rig guidance across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, plus a global view. Country filters use local species coverage, regional rig names, and metric or imperial defaults.
Yes. Each rig lists the main line, leader material and length, hook size range, weight type and size, and the line-to-sinker distance, so you can tie it without guessing.
