Thread: First Day of Summer and 50th Trip

Feelay and Bird Down, y'all are off to a fine start! No doubt you two can hit 100 trips if you want to. It is going to stink having to start my journal halfway through the year, but I really like this idea.

Originally Posted by Release to the Grease...

I jot down the date, time of day, what lake, water temp and level, rising/falling, clear/dirty, weather, what I did and how many caught, and maybe a few other tidbits that stand out for that day. As I said before, I will look back at trips that I think I remember pretty well, and there are usually a lot of specifics that I have totally rearranged in my feeble little brain. I think it helps a lot to be able to look back at what you were doing at a given time period for the last few years and what the water levels and conditions were like, you start to see some consistent patterns. I keep a little notebook in my truck and then transfer it all to a Word.doc and I have it on my phone too, that old data has helped me more than once on tough days!!

Man you are tech-savvy. I mostly just use my phone for texting, and I feel like I'm cool. I am going to have to get with the age I guess and start using more features on these devices. Dangit, I'm getting left behind.

My Dad and I have been keeping fishing Journals for years we just pick up a good day planner and write down all the info. Number of fish caught, air temp, water temp, water clarity, wind speed and direction, cloudy/sunny , water depth, fishing depth, jig color. Also area of lake fished and any other special events that happened during our trip.