How many of you guys keep fishing logs and what do you include in them. I usually include lake, fow caught, temp, colors, speed and number of catch.
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How many of you guys keep fishing logs and what do you include in them. I usually include lake, fow caught, temp, colors, speed and number of catch.
Wish I did. My dad said sumthin along the lines of "you are a young man and have a lifetime to record all the ducks you've killed and fish you've caught and most men my age wish they had done that".
Time of year spring,summer,fall,winter,Lake level,Clear,stained,muddy,logs,stumps,rock pile.
I keep one but included weather pattern, date, best bite time, method, presentation, structure or bank, average fish size, % of crappie caught, color and size of jig, lake level, surface temp and barometer reading. I'm an it guy so I run reports by month, lake, surface temp to include all attributes above. Been keeping the log now for about 6 years and I review it before each trip. Helps me decide where to go and how to fish based on history of facts. It has paid big rewards!!!!
I fish mostly Nimrod and verticle jig. I thought about it but most I ever did was write down # of Catfish during summer when we bait holes. Catch way too many Crappie most days to keep count. I use the same bait all year for Crappie fishing stumps and cover I sink. When you have fished same lake for 40 years + you pretty much know what to do depending on water levels , season, and weather.
I have tried to keep up with one the last 2 years, but after a month I forget about it. Going to try to be better at it this year. I kept date, location, water condition, water temp., structure, depth, method, weather to include moon phase, # caught and size and anything memorable
I did the same, got a notebook and started one about 3 years ago. After a year, just quit doing it. Was cleaning out a cabinet the other day and came across it.
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Date, time fished, place fished, water and weather temps/conditions, # of crappie caught, and a comment section to list as much detail as possible to look back on in the years to come (includes method fished, depth most bites came from, best colors, etc., etc.).
Mine are kept on Excel spreadsheets (1 for each year) and backed up on a 1 GB data drive monthly.
still catchem in the same places i did 30years ago in the same lakes. i fish about 8 different lakes or so at different times of the year ! mostly river oxbows that produce year after year!!!!!
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.
Now Thats a heck of a idea!!! A album of your suscesses, or failures, second thought, I luike my memory better...lolQuote:
Originally Posted by RCC
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.