On the boat nobody says Caranx ignobilis. They say talakitok. If the log only speaks English, the fish you remember and the fish you can find next month are two different records. You will stop logging, or you will log the wrong name and trust it later.

That is a jigging problem, not a taxonomy problem. The next trip depends on what the crew called the fish, what jig was on, and how deep the strike was. A Latin name does not help at 4am.

The local name is the search

The catch log takes the name you use. JigSpot knows 70 or more species so far, with the English name beside it for anyone new on the deck. Tambakol, talakitok, maya-maya, lapu-lapu, tanigue, mamsa, katambak, pusit. Type the local name. The log knows the fish.

Weight and a photo can wait until the fish is on ice. This part is free, inside the 15 saved spots on a free account. The point is not a species encyclopedia. The point is that next month you can find the fish the crew actually caught, at the depth and on the jig you wrote down when you had a minute.

A log that needs a translation is a log you will not keep. The name on the boat should be the name in the app.