Fishing logs

I have built a spreadsheet on Excel with the following headings, It is easy to go back and refesh your memory as to when the fish were biting and the conditions under which they were caught. I started tracking my trips in the early '90's, it has been a wealth of information for me. Since I almost exclusively fish old Oxbow's off the Miss. River it is imperative for me to know what is happening when the river is at a given level.

WATER WEATHER MS River Stg. Wind B. Pressure Crappie Bass Bream Catfish LURE Comments
DATE LOCATION MOON TEMP

I have one and keep up with the date, fishermen on trip, catch by numbers and species, location, river level if I'm fishing a river, weather including temp, wind and general appearance, time fished, and then a comments section where I talk about anything that struck me about the trip.

My take on fishing logs is they are not near as good as fishing vertical structure...

Kept a log in 2009 and 2010 while trying to home in on the crappie on the local lake. It works well and helps keep the memory accurate.

If I were to get serious about logging my trips, I would do it on the PC and also include pics from each trip.

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Originally Posted by RCC

My take on fishing logs is they are not near as good as fishing vertical structure...

Kept a log in 2009 and 2010 while trying to home in on the crappie on the local lake. It works well and helps keep the memory accurate.

If I were to get serious about logging my trips, I would do it on the PC and also include pics from each trip.

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Now Thats a heck of a idea!!! A album of your suscesses, or failures, second thought, I luike my memory better...lol

I keep one mostly for personal enjoyment, but it can have some learning benefits such as at what water levels did you catch fish. I kept one fairly well from 1980 to 1988 or so until the birth of my third child, and my wife demanded more child time on my part and the journal went. I started keeping it again about a year and a half ago. I really have fun reading through those earlier entries, some great memories, many of which I had forgotten about.