Scott Kane, Founder, Developer, Fisherman

Founder, Developer

Scott Kane is the founder and developer of Getfished. His work over the past decade with diverse fishing information inspired him to create both the website and its supporting software.

With decades of software development experience, Scott evaluated numerous web technologies before selecting the most effective tools for Getfished. He prioritized site performance, even when it required a more complex development process.

Scott started out using low-level programming languages, like direct decimal-to-hex, and later worked with tools such as C, dBase, Clipper, Turbo Pascal, and Delphi. He’s also used modern web tools, including PHP (with many years in WordPress), C#, GoLang, and different types of JavaScript.

Fishing vs Programming = Getfished

When he goes fishing, Scott likes to keep things simple and use pre-tied rigs, bait, and lures. He often prepares them ahead of time, which makes things easier and faster. But in software development, he found that shortcuts don’t always work. For Getfished, he focused on making the site run fast for visitors, even if it took longer to build.

Getfished updates every hour, pulling data from databases and APIs as needed. It puts this information together, analyzes it, and shows it in a way that’s quick and easy to read.

It took more than a year of steady coding with Pascal, C, GoLang, and SQLITE to get there. The final product runs on Hugo, a very fast tool built with GoLang, and generates fresh forecasts and data every hour.

Moon Up Moon Down

The book Moon Up Moon Down by John Alden Knight has had a big impact on modern fishing, though Scott thinks its influence is sometimes overstated. It’s a great and interesting read, but Getfished tries to put solunar tables in perspective. Solunar factors aren’t the only things that affect fishing. Many websites treat them like a “magic formula” or the “secret you are missing.” It isn’t magic, and you can catch fish without it. Still, it can help as part of a bigger picture, which includes the environment, tides, weather, and what the fish are feeding on.

That’s why Scott designed Getfished to show solunar as just one part of fishing, and he encourages visitors to see it that way too.

For this reason, Getfished doesn’t promise you’ll catch more fish. Instead, it shows a range of environmental factors that can affect your fishing, with solunar being just one of them.

Even if you don’t believe in solunar theory, the moon still plays a big role in fishing because it controls the tides. That alone makes it something worth considering.

Solunar and Forecast Influence

When Scott was a teenager, he started reading books about what affects when fish bite.

From reading and trying things out himself, he learned there’s no golden rule or sure thing. Sometimes, all the factors line up just like the “experts” say, but that still doesn’t mean you’ll always have a great fishing trip.

That’s because fish live in an environment, just like we do, and many things affect them. Food availability, water temperature, dredging, weather, and much more all play a part, not just tides and the moon.

People debate things like hook size, line color, braid versus mono, and more. Some of these ideas are proven, but many are just guesses. Things like tides and the moon seem to affect fish feeding behavior sometimes, but not always.*

Some books, videos, and websites make it seem like the moon or tides are all that matter. That’s not true. They help a lot of the time, but sometimes they don’t predict much at all.

Community Involveme

Scott is the has been the President of the Greensborough RSL Angling Club and has served since January 2025 to current. The club is a part of the Greensborough RSL Club

He also enjoys donating platelets to the Red Cross blood bank. He has volunteered in several roles, including as an “Independent Person” which involves attending police interviews with children who don’t have a parent or guardian present.

He is married and has two adult daughters in Melbourne, Australia.