fishing log

[Jigaman]

How many of you keep a somewhat detailed log of each time you hit the water? Is there a good iphone app available that you have used and like? Thinking about starting to do this.

 

[Kurtr]

mine is easy for 2017 so far. 0 fish

 

[Rowdie]

I have one but the last couple years aren't very accurate.

 

[JB_24]

I have an excel spreadsheet that I enter information that I think is valuable (weather, water level, water temp, depth, how caught, etc.). It is interesting to go back and look at previous years information and compare it to the current year. On Sakakawea especially, you can see patterns develop year to year or you go back and try old spots as the water levels fluctuate.

 

[IndigenousWalleye78]

HAHA Nerd Alert!! J/K I keep logs in my phone

I have an excel spreadsheet that I enter information that I think is valuable (weather, water level, water temp, depth, how caught, etc.). It is interesting to go back and look at previous years information and compare it to the current year. On Sakakawea especially, you can see patterns develop year to year or you go back and try old spots as the water levels fluctuate.

 

[Captain Ahab]

The only fishing logs I have is the piece of driftwood my walleye is mounted on and the rule of thumbs I carry around in my melon. Started putting some river level and bite stuff together for my boys if I kick the bucket though.

 

[buckhunter24_7]

I started one in the group section but it never caught on

 

[Biglunch]

I don't catch enough fish to keep one. My dad has them going back 15 years. He puts down who's fishing, weather, water temp and who caught what. There fun to look back at because normally there's little notes. "only caught buzz fishing sucked" etc. Its a good tool to look back on and see what was working another day same time of year etc

 

[martinslanding]

I had a fishing log once...then it floated away

 

[Captainbrad]

I have all my catfish records from 2007 to present. I am a poor paper work doer so I keep a desk calendar. I write down what section of river, hours fished, total fish caught, cats over 20#, Who I fished with and anything that stuck out as really good or really bad. If I need weather or water data to check a patter I can look up the dates on the old www as needed. Generally after the season is done I break down each day in to fish/hour then get the average for the season on Excel. I also will grab all the weather and water stats and plug them into a master copy for future reference.

After this many years it is pretty wild how patterns set up from year to year or with certain conditions.

 

[LBrandt]

I had one but it made me sad so I threw it away.

 

[guywhofishes]

I had one but it made me sad so I threw it away.

that ^^

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plus I have, like many here I would imagine, one hell of a memory for bites, exact locations, depths, presentations of nearly every time I have got on a decent bite - right back to when I was quite young

and that's not much of an exaggeration

 

[deleted member]

we keep on in the permanent for the last 3 or 4 years. species, length, time of day and general location. was a short list this year.

 

[johnr]

I hate paperwork, and any thing that might feel like a task, or work related.

Seems like something that would be awful, and even make my butt itch.

 

[luvcatchingbass]

I have thought about this and started this ice season a little till I got lazy. Pictures have been my way of keeping track and angle of the keystone can is my secret code on where I went

 

[campcook]

I ran across an old log from the 70s that was tossed in a forgotten box last year. It was fun to reminisce about fishing on a river with few if any other fisherman. I owned one of perhaps a hundred boats between the dam and the line. Those days are gone but I hope everyone appreciates the balls exhibited by Dale Henagar when he was the chief fisheries biologist for NDFG. You youngsters have no idea of what it took so you could catch a 7lb + walleye.

 

[guywhofishes]

I ran across an old log from the 70s that was tossed in a forgotten box last year. It was fun to reminisce about fishing on a river with few if any other fisherman. I owned one of perhaps a hundred boats between the dam and the line. Those days are gone but I hope everyone appreciates the balls exhibited by Dale Henagar when he was the chief fisheries biologist for NDFG. You youngsters have no idea of what it took so you could catch a 7lb + walleye.

please do explain what Henegar did - I'm curious!

 

[ORCUS DEMENS]

I have kept logs for the past 15 or so years. they are mostly from Lake Erie as I have only been here since 14. Excel is the way to go, date, weather, water temp, GPS coordiantes, type fish, type of bait/lure, Yep I am a NERD.

 

[guywhofishes]

any stories of how this logging paid off?

 

[Sluggo]

I've been keeping a log since 1990. Date, time, destination, wind speed and direction, air temp, water temp, barometer if known, elevation if a reservoir, and then a comment indicating who with, what we caught, location and presentation. I look back often.

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any stories of how this logging paid off?

Nothing magical for me. Partially entertaining to look back. I have realized that some waters produce the same time of the year. For the reservoirs, the elevation has come in handy at times. Certain spots are only spots at certain elevations.