Fishing diary

[JIM1]

Anyone else starting a new one? This years diary was a bit overrun from fitting fishing and work into it so I went for a big a4 page per day. Super excited to make next years first entry!

Originally Posted by JIM1

Anyone else starting a new one? This years diary was a bit overrun from fitting fishing and work into it so I went for a big a4 page per day. Super excited to make next years first entry!

do you have a diary that you write in all the fish that you catch in ?

[bargeass]

I'm gonna guess it's more than just the fish he catches, the lures they were caught on, the time of the session, the tide, temperature, moon phase, barometer, salinity, turbidity and the list goes on. Very helpful for looking back on and trying to work out patterns of what fish feed on what and where in what ever weather conditions. I'll have to set up a more effective one this year.

[Tom156]

So am I... right now ive just got a folder of fish caught and the date, ive dropped the ball on that one lately to

[VivoSaurus]

That's a great idea guys! I think I'll try to have my little log books as well, something simple. Thanks for the idea!

[forsterfisho]

I didn't think that fishing diary's were so common. I tried using one once, I think I lasted 1 outing and 3 lines of information before I was over it.

Time on the water and general fishing experiance will teach you more than a diary will when it comes to cracking patterns.

I guess over maybe 5-10 years you may seen re-appearing patterns but I don't think you will in the short term.

[driftcorp86]

Originally Posted by forsterfisho

I didn't think that fishing diary's were so common. I tried using one once, I think I lasted 1 outing and 3 lines of information before I was over it.

Time on the water and general fishing experiance will teach you more than a diary will when it comes to cracking patterns.

I guess over maybe 5-10 years you may seen re-appearing patterns but I don't think you will in the short term.

agreed. expecially with the ever changing river systems due to floods ect.

[JIM1]

Originally Posted by bargeass

I'm gonna guess it's more than just the fish he catches, the lures they were caught on, the time of the session, the tide, temperature, moon phase, barometer, salinity, turbidity and the list goes on. Very helpful for looking back on and trying to work out patterns of what fish feed on what and where in what ever weather conditions. I'll have to set up a more effective one this year.

Bit of everything goes in, good to look back and see how well certain things work and what doesnt. Good way to keep track of spending too!

[cr@zy_deep]

Originally Posted by bargeass

I'm gonna guess it's more than just the fish he catches, the lures they were caught on, the time of the session, the tide, temperature, moon phase, barometer, salinity, turbidity and the list goes on..

You measure salinity and turbidity every time you go fishing? Keen as.

[bargeass]

No way haha, baro tide and temp if I'm feeling keen. I was just listing a bunch of factors that could be taken into consideration if you're feeling really enthusiastic

[Breamobsession]

I used to keep one for a long time but over it now, personally don't feel it really helped me much. After fishing the same area's for so long you work out what works in certain conditions and times of year by pure hours on the water, with forsterfisho on this one. Guess it can depend on your target species though.

[chanlo]

There is a fishing iphone app that does a fishing diary for you... cant remember what its called but you can put in what lures you use and what fish you catch and it links to the weather and inputs stuff like, temperature, weather conditions into each entry as well as GPS info of were you caught the fish.
I was using it but I was going over my data and got a couple of big bills so I gave up.

[Ratbags]

Originally Posted by chanlo

There is a fishing iphone app that does a fishing diary for you... cant remember what its called but you can put in what lures you use and what fish you catch and it links to the weather and inputs stuff like, temperature, weather conditions into each entry as well as GPS info of were you caught the fish.
I was using it but I was going over my data and got a couple of big bills so I gave up.

I set up a file in excel with all this info 10 years ago, just copy into a new page at the start of the year. have even set it u to spit out some "ideal" reports on when/where/moons etc. avoids the data bills in the iphone