Scott Kane, Founder, Developer, Fisherman

Founder, Developer

Scott Kane founded and developed Getfished. Over the past ten years, he has worked on different types of fishing information, which inspired him to create both the website and the software behind it.

With decades of software development experience, Scott explored many web technologies before choosing the best tools for Getfished. He focused on making the site run quickly, even if it meant the coding process was more challenging.

Scott began his career using low-level programming languages like direct decimal to hex and later a focus on tools like C, dBase, Clipper,Tubo Pascal and Delphi. He’s also worked with a range of modern web toolkits like PHP (working within WordPress for many years), C#, GoLang as well as several varieties of JavaScript.

Fishing vs Programming = Getfished

When fishing, Scott tends to prefer “not reinventing” the wheel. So he enjoys using pre-tied rigs, bait and lures. Often taking time beforehand to prepare them himself before fishing. This tends to be easier and quicker. However, in software development, he learned that doing this isn’t always the path to a solution. So with Getfished, he focused on how fast the end product that the visitor uses runs, rather than how fast it is to write the code.

Getfished runs every hour, retrieving data from databases and API’s as needed. It then assembles this information, analyses the data and presents it in a format that’s quick and easy to read.

Getting to that point took over 12 months of solid coding using Pascal, C, GoLang and SQLITE for database storage. Rendering the end product in the incredibly fast Hugo (written in the GoLang programming language), generating the site’s forecasts and data, fresh, every hour.

Moon Up Moon Down

The influence of the book Moon Up Moon Down by John Alden Knight on modern fishing cannot be understated. Indeed, Scott believes firmly, it is actually overstated. It’s a great book, well worth a read and incredibly interesting. Hoever, Getfisihed attempts to put the theory of solunar tables into perspective. The reality is that solunar is not the only influence on fishing behavioiur. Many websites act as if it’s a “magic formula” or the “secret you are missing.” It isn’t magic and you can fish successfully without it. But, it can assist as a part of the bigger picture. That picture is the environment. The tides, the weather, what the fish are actuallly feeding on.

To this end Scott build Getfished to purposefully downplay solunar as “just a part” and to encourage visitors of the website to view it as such.

This is why Getfished makes no claims, no guarantees as to your fishing success. Instead, it presents are range of environmental factors that can affect your fishing, with solunar as a part of it.

Truthfully, even if you are a steadfast opponent to solunar theory, the reality is the moon is affecting a vital part of our fishing lives. The tides. That alone makes the moon a significant part of the factors we should consider.

Solunar and Forecast Influence

As a teen, Scott started paying attention to books that talked about the factors that influence when fish bite.

What this reading and hands-on experimentation showed him was that there is no golden rule, no absolute certainty. Factors line up perfectly, according to the “experts”, yet this doesn’t always guarantee a successful fishing session.

That’s because fish live in an environment, much like we do, that is affected by a vast array of other influences. What food is available and when, water temperature, dredging of sand and mud, weather, and so much more, beyond just tides and the moon.

What the likes of the tides and moon do gives us is something that seems to affect fish feeding behavior sometimes.

Some books, videos, and websites leave you thinking the moon or tides are the only things to consider. This is simply not true. They help, sometimes, maybe a lot of the time, but there are times when they predict very little.

Community Involvement

Scott’s the 2025/2026 President of the Greensborough RSL Angling Club. He also loves donating platelets to the Red Cross blood bank and has worked in several volunteer roles. Including assisting children who, when arrested by the police, do not have a parent or guardian to attend a police interview.

He’s married and is the father of two beautiful adult daughters in Melbourne, Australia.