Anyone else keep a steady log?  I input my fish and any I actually witness caught (I don't log supposed catches ).

I input lure/color/time/date/size/water temp/air temp/location/front conditions.

Anyone doing that?

What did your latest day look like?

J

I did for years but now I have what I call a "journal". It's a MSword file. I make entries of purchases, maintenence schedules, noteworthy occurances and just updates from time to time.

When I lived in NY, I was among the first participants in the state fish and game "angler cooperative diary program." The state furnished the participants with log books and a standard ruler to measure and record the details of the catch. Lure and other information was not part of the study (which I believe is still ongoing) but I would add in things like that.

at the end of the season you would mail the diary into the state. A few months later they would return it with a report that covered the findings for your area. It was cool. I did this for about 8 years and kept the logs untill I moved to FLA.

As for my latest day, it's in the "your outing" forum.  It was not a great day.

My records go back to 1972, the first they were typed, & then in 1995 I put every thing in Micro Soft Word.

Here's a sample

February 13th, 1995

Area: Pat's Island, 944 all the way in the back, Hurricane right hand side past Red Bud Cove.

Cover: Buck Brush, Button Willows, & Stumps; 3 to 7'

Structure: secondary points, creek channels, flats

Water Temperature: upper 40s to lower 50s

Weather: pre-frontal conditions, sunny highs in the mid 60s, lows at night 40s, winds light and variable.

Time: 7:00 am to 4:00 pm

Lures: Oldham's Lures Trailer Hitch Jig, 3/8 oz Bream Flashes, Gene Larew Salty Hawg Craws Black Neon in 5 with 1 ½ cut off the tail. Texas Rigged Gene Larew Salty Hawg Craws Black Neon in 5; 3/16 oz bullet weight.

Pattern:

Total: 22      Keepers: 17      Largest: 7.14 lbs (PCM)

I just started this year... And i think that it is going to help me develop patterns that will help me in all areas of fishing.  my titles are.....Datet, time, Weight, Location, Clearity, depth, Water Temp, Air Temp, sky, Wind Direction, wind speed, lure, lure color, Presentation, Pressure, Visibility, Humidity, Dew Point, Sun Rise, Sun Set, moon

I just got a camera phone this year, and have been taking pictures of all noteworthy catches.  I then email them to myself, print them out, and have been posting them on a cork board in my room.  On the picture, I also write size of the fish, structure/cover, date, time, lure, and location.

Every fish I've caught here in Northern Virginia over the past two weeks has been on a Watermelon Mizmo tube... The bass are on the beds here and protecting, I've tried minus one's and spinnerbaits with no prevail, i've tried senko's but i've become to impatient with a senko to fish it slow enough for layin' on beds.... one particular tube is where it's at for me right now, i never need anything else even though i bring it all still with another rod as well but haven't needed anything....

once again last night I was only getting bites on the watermelon tube, my buddy tried a white lizard and an x-rap and minus 1, I also tried tactics that have worked in the past like letting a devil's horse or jitterbug just sit right on top of the beds but to no prevail... I didn't catch any fish but like I said the only thing I got bites on was the tube, it's just everytime I set the hook it seemed like i was ripping it from their mouths, i think they were only grabbing the tail end of the tube, as I was using my normal technique of setting the hook at the first tap or first sight of line movement... resistance was there but no fish when said and done :'(