Something I’ve been doing for the past year is creating a digital fishing log book. For years, going back forever, I have kept fishing log books. Paper back notebooks. Writing down essential information from everyday I went fishing. Conditions (tides, wind, barometric pressure, weather…), etc… Keeping those logs has helped me pattern and catch fish consistently over the years. What I have been doing over the past year is, instead of just paper back logs, keeping digital fishing logs. I have been taking screenshots from my boating app on my smartphone with all the information I need in one place including the spot with a waypoint and saving them in dated folders. This works great for me as I can relate on the fly to my gps on the boat being it’s the same charts I use. With technology today, it has been even easier to access these logs not only on my home computer, but on the go on my smartphone as I can access these files on the fly through the cloud. Just thought I would throw this out there for anyone looking to start keeping track of their own fishing logs. Hope this helps. Tight lines.
Screenshots are for reference only. It’s not like I’m going to give away secrets, haha…
That’s one of the only reasons I haven’t deleted my facebook…lol too bad I haven’t kept every trip logged though. Excellent points here!
(also, the pics didn’t load)
Thanks. I hear you, believe me, I’m missing logs as well that I wish I hadn’t. Also, the pics are loading on all my devices. Maybe someone else could chime in and let me know if they are loading on theirs. Tight lines StumpNocker.
I’ve always been really curious if anyone has found a good way to get years of logs into some sort of program like excel or something else to view patterns over the years? Trying to figure out a better way to look at the logs as a whole vs. 1 day at a time.
Has anyone experimented or had any success with this? Just curious…
Thanks for the info Capt. Fields - you’re always putting out good info, I appreciate it.
Pics look fine to me. I’ve been using the App “Fishtales” on the iOS platform to log my catches. Let’s me log location with map, weather, water temps, clarity, bait, technique, etc. I can easily look back at previous years records.
I am part of a group launching the fishint app. We are local to the Charleston area and are working with a local company to develop an application that will combine weather and water data with realtime analytics to provide a more intelligent fishing experience. Many of the things you all have talked about in this thread will be encompassed in the fishint app along with a few other neat features. We are in the development process right now and should be launching early this summer. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @fishintapp for updates and information about fishint.
Thats all good. I just prefer my method of using the boating app and saving screenshots for easy access. It’s also nice to have these spots marked and saved as waypoints on the app that I’m able to sync with my gps on the boat with the name and date of fishing. Thanks for the input.
No log here, but I drop a waypoint on each fish caught.
I can easily look down and see where I have a bunch of waypoints.
In a creek sometimes one bend produces much better than another. I can see that on the fly. No need to work the entire creek when the first 2 bends are the best for example.
Graphs hold thousands of waypoints and by dropping pins you can see patterns and apply them to other areas.
You can also use social media of an event or something.
Pictures work as well. I can usually tell where I am by the grass or bend or tree in the background. Picture of the fish and bait used helps to, then you have the date for time of year.
Logs don’t have to be in a spreadsheet or on paper but can be a combination of different resources.
I’m with you on waypoints. GPS holds a ton of waypoints as well as the charts on the app on the iphone (1000 waypoints). With all the years I’ve been on the water, not just by myself, but with my father and my friends, the system I use works best for me. My memory tends to go after a few years, ha. It’s nice to look back and see a front that came through with the same weather conditions and use that knowledge to help me in the same area, a few years later.
