Hey r/selfhosted ,

Sharing a side project I've been running on my homelab for a while now —

fishingbalkan.com — a free fishing forecast platform covering rivers in

Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, and the wider Western Balkans.

I'm a DevSecOps engineer, not a fisherman, but built this for friends

and family who fish. It started as "let me scrape the government water

gauge site so dad doesn't have to" and grew into a proper platform.

## What it does

For 14 fishing locations along the Danube, Sava, Tisa, Drina, and Morava

rivers, it aggregates:

- Real-time water level (from DanubeHIS + Serbian Hydrometeorological

Institute scrapers)

- Water + air temperature

- Wind direction, speed, and gusts

- Atmospheric pressure with trend

- Solunar major/minor periods (moon position)

- Closed season periods per fish species (legal restrictions)

- A composite 0–100 fishing score per location, per species, using a

weighted geometric mean of 8 factors

Users can also log their own locations and catches…