Fishing logbook

Admin · Jul 22, 2022

How many of you do keep fishing records - when, where, successfully or skunked?

I'm thinking of building such a feature here at OFF. I guess it would be cool to be able to look at an autogenerated personal "heat map".

What do you say about an idea?

Oregunner · Jul 22, 2022

Every time I go fishing, I take a selfie in the boat. My photo collection is my fishing record, about 100 days a year. I don’t keep fish but try to get pictures of photo worthy fish, and sometimes of the gear or flies I was using.

Admin · Jul 22, 2022

Oregunner said:
Every time I go fishing, I take a selfie in the boat. My photo collection is my fishing record, about 100 days a year. I don’t keep fish but try to get pictures of photo worthy fish, and sometimes of the gear or flies I was using.

Yeah, that's a good way to keep records. The drawback of this way - analytics can't be generated programmatically.

troutdude · Jul 22, 2022

Seems like a good idea. That's actually what Jed Davis did before writing his now famous "Spinner Fishing for Steehead, Salmon, and Trout" book. His approach was very scientific by noting date, place, air temp, water temp, weather phenomenon like fog, drizzle, or full sun, gear / lure descriptions, water clarity, etc.

Case in point: right after devouring Jed's original book, in the mid 80's, I made some all black spinners. Black clevis, black blade, black beads, even black tubing over the hook shank. Then proceeded to hook into 4 big and fiesty Fall Nooks, in matter of a hour or two, at Moonshine Park on the Siletz. Peeps still think I'm crazy for using all black spinners. But in the right conditions in the Fall...BAM!!!

pcstock · Jul 22, 2022

I use FishSwami app on my iPhone. Great app.

Admin · Jul 22, 2022

pcstock said:
I use FishSwami app on my iPhone. Great app.

Thanks! That's exactly what I had in mind. Will install it and investigate what it has inside.

pcstock · Jul 22, 2022

It downloads weather, water conditions etc. It has a huge library of flies, lures, bait etc... But you can easily add your own and they show up at the top of the list.

Casting Call · Jul 23, 2022

I buy a topo map of the areas that I fish from the local Coast Guard station, ie Astoria/ Newport etc. I write on the dates, time, location, and bait, etc, etc. info. I have 40yr old maps hanging on the man cave wall. Tony

jamisonace · Jul 24, 2022

Some of the best fishermen I know keep highly detailed records. I am waaaay to lazy. I tried once but gave up quickly.

Casting Call · Jul 24, 2022

A map on the wall easy peasy. Tony

rogerdodger · Jul 25, 2022

hardcore tech geek here- my fishing log is on my computer because I have images and sometimes video from each outing, so each year I create a folder for the year, "2022 Fishing", everything goes in there- ODFW PDFs, images I create from web pages...each outing gets a folder in there with the date, everything related to that outing, including notes, maps, links... goes into that folder. All my devices (computer, tablet, and phone) are linked through Google and everything I create backs-up to their cloud storage, so everything is stored at multiple locations.

Ultramepps · Jul 26, 2022

I use a google App. “Journey” it keeps photos with location setting and notes. Have been using it since 2017. Works great.

Diehard · Jul 27, 2022

I drew up a 12 month calendar squares on a single sheet of paper for each month I have what to fish for. best week to go and a small detailed list of gear/techniques for those fisherys

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