Journals: Do You Keep One?

[Ruger]

that's a pretty good template. i like it. Rite In The Rain makes a fishing journal i would like to get my hands on. i want to start keeping a journal this year. when i get a nicer boat, and have the money to do so, i want to get one of the nice Lowrance fish finders with GPS and Navionics. then i'll mark each place i catch fish. i fish Loon Lake, near Cache Creek, a couple times year, once in spring, once in fall. i've noticed trends as to where i catch fish. it'd be neat to mark each fish caught on a chart.

[11th Warrior]

For those of you with an iPhone (or even an iPod Touch), I present the following apps:

AnglersLog - $4.99
Fly Fishing (a great app for cross-referencing bugs to flys) - 0.99 cents
BC Fishing (all the Regs, except for chapter 1) - Free
Tippet - Just what you think it is, including the rule of 11 for 0.99 cents
FlyBook (it's an e-journal) - $4.99 introductory price and probably my choice if I had an iPhone
After the Catch - $3.99 (probably my 2nd choice)

I've been considering an iPod Touch for quite awhile so did some "pre-scouting" on fishing apps and came up with these.

[Sunpeaksfish]

As long as we're on the subject of apps, Here's a good one I found for google earth searching though different web sites :http://flyguys.net/files/gofishbc-st...04.12.2009.kmz
it has waypoints for a ton of stillwaters in BC, they aren't super accurate on the placing but most are very close to the water bodies they represent so you can still figure it out.

[lcampbellcutthroat]

I write an entry for every trip that I make even if I don't fish, just make a note of any applicable detail, it's really handy to have all that info at hand, because I'm only 27 and I still forget all kinds of things even from last year, it's also kind of fun to go back and read about some of your really bad trips, eg. sunk truck in lake, fish in truck when it was pulled out, and conversely your really good trips
small moleskin journal works very well, tidal info, lunar and solar activity is also interesting to note when you can look back and see patterns, it is definitely an indispensible part of my fishing gear
Len

[chauchey]

I keep a fishing journal now that I've started fly fishing. I never kept one when I gear fished, but now that theres so much more too the type of fishing that I do, I need make sure the time I spend figuring things out is less and less each time I go to a lake. I also want to make sure I go back to only productive lakes, not just lakes 'I feel good about'. With so many lakes to explore, I want to make sure that if I fish something the following year, its because it truely was good to me and I know exactly why!
The info I keep is simple because I'm not a complex fisherman. Place, date, time/s hours fished. Hits, fish landed, flies tried, flies that produced. General weather, and if something struck me as out of the ordinary I'll list that. I don't have a thermometer so I'll change that this spring. I want to start seeing the difference water temp at depth makes to producing fish, not just surface temp. I will say this, in 5 years from now, I can see my journal coming in reaaaall handy! I have a terrible memory, and am under no illusions that I have a good one. lol. On the plus side, I do keep accurate records and I have confidence in the info that I give my friends when they're planning a trip.

[nebc]

This year my Blackberry will be used to collect the data ech night that will be sent to my MS Exchange server and my database on the file server and processed into an existing database each night whether i fish or not. Since I started consulting I had a need to automagically do this kind of thing. Makes for more fishing time too.

[11th Warrior]

This year my Blackberry will be used to collect the data ech night that will be sent to my MS Exchange server and my database on the file server and processed into an existing database each night whether i fish or not. Since I started consulting I had a need to automagically do this kind of thing. Makes for more fishing time too.

I thought I was a geek, LOL. Good on ya for keeping track like that!!

[johnk]

Oh man, 10 years at Tunkwa let technology pass right on by! NEBC, I don't know what you said but it sounds like technogarble to me!LOL

[CameronT120]

Are there any good fishing apps for blackberry?

[nebc]

Oh man, 10 years at Tunkwa let technology pass right on by! NEBC, I don't know what you said but it sounds like technogarble to me!LOL

heh heh - cannot just tie flies all the spare time so when I really get bored I revert to old hobbies like either consulting for oil and gas companies and government or programming things like that, making those businesses more efficient to run.

The fly tying makes me no cash at all but the rest normally buys lots of new toys and more trips than we deserve - this year however most things other than techy stuff, investments, fly tying and thinking about fishing is mostly on hold so we can catch our breath here.