Fishing Journals.

[Chris Ray]

Any body have a good suggestion for a fishing journal? Time to start keeping track of this stuff.
Capt. Chris.

[Mike Livingstone]

not sure what you mean by a good suggestion for a journal. The last one I bought was from a gift shop out west, leather bound, rather simple other than that. This one is about full, starting it in October of 2000. I think it’s the fifth one I’ve completed. I generally keep my hunting trips in a different journal, but not always. It’s a good idea to keep a journal, over the years checking back and comparing notes, weather, river flows, hatches, bad ideas, good choices, you get the picture. I always put some photos in there as well, besides the better ones that will go into an album or whatever.

[Michael Phillippe]

I’ve actually journals my days on the water since 1978. Over the years I’ve tried everything from “fly fishing journals”, aka FishPond’s journal (very nice by the way) to simple, plain journals. I think I like plain best. I don’t feel compelled to measure anything or count fish. Sometimes I record hatches, conditions, etc., but sometimes I just write I think. I wonder if anyone will ever read them?!

[andrew stoehr]

About 35 years ago, my dad started keeping a journal on his Indiana grouse hunting trips.

[Mike Lewis]

I have a simple text document that I have been keeping on my home river since 2004. I have it backed up in a few locations as it has more than 450 lines now. Probably would have been more but some quick trips (mostly skunks) have been left off every now and then.

I keep date, water flow, water and air temp, water turbidity, weather and moon phase conditions as well as what I caught and what I used.

It’s somewhat useful to look back on to see certain trends and whne certain species arrive/leave over the years.

[Karlin Bilcher]

I remember bring frustrated by what was out there for journals.   Early on my buddy and I spent some time designing the pages of our journal ourselves.  We went back and forth about what we wanted to include and what we would leave out regarding prompts, check boxes, questions to be answered, etc.  Then we took it to Staples and had it bound.  We liked the finished product, that was over 10 years ago and its still around.  

[Mike Anderson]

Forget paper this is the smart phone age. However, none of the apps I’ve seen so far look worth the price to get them. Should be stupid easy to make a good app that captures date, gps, fish pics , text entry,

[Curtis Bias]

I browse my photos on my PC and look at the data tags. THis provides me with a date and time that photos were taken. I can also easily pick out where I was fishing based on the title of the file folder on my PC. I want to pick up a camera with GPS data as well for good measure. – Between the photo data and the titles of file folders like”Lower Mountain Fork RIver” and the images, I have

[Zach Matthews]

Good idea Mike.

[chriscavs]

I’ve been wondering the same thing. I’m a huge fan of the Moleskine pocket journals, but they don’t make one specifically for fly fishing (or fishing in general), though I’d love that. I may just buy one and convert it into a fly fishing journal, unless i can find a fly fishing specific journal I really like. I’m one of those weird pen & notebook junkies (despite my addiction to tech and my smartphone, i still love pen & paper), so it’s important for me to find the right one.

[Chris Ray]

You would think by now there would be some type of detailed, well organized journal. I am not a tech-geek at all but you would think that there would be a ton of integrated programs/journals outhere. All the weather/tide/flow etc is online, why can it not be put into one place and you add notes? Living on the coast, it would be nice to track everything by tides and moons.

[Mike Anderson]

The demand is high for a quality fishing app like this… It could potentially solve alot of puzzles about fish behavior and weather patterns over the course of a few years.

[Zach Matthews]

Forget paper this is the smart phone age. However, none of the apps I’ve seen so far look worth the price to get them. Should be stupid easy to make a good app that captures date, gps, fish pics , text entry,  and detailed weather conditions in the area. Might look into building my own app if I ever get some free time.

IMHO, a smartphone app would be ideal. I too started writing code for a web-based, database-driven ASP.NET app that could managed from smartphone, but I never have enough time. I would love to see one too.

[Brian Moffitt]

I like the idea of a smartphone app.

[Chris Ray]

If you can do it, see if can pull the tide info for coastal areas. I would love to be able to sort by tide levels and see what I did.
Capt. Chris.

[john lea]

If you are not adverse to digital look at Microsoft’s Onenote.

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