Best online fishing journals or apps?

Anyone have any good experiences that have fishing journals and apps that allow you to put pictures in it as well?

Not sure if you looking for best apps regardless. But a few of my favorites are navionics, $10 a year but worth it for me. Time2fish lite is a good app also. Any other apps out there you guys like?

I know of a couple great options! But I don’t like sharing them. Who would want to deal with the extra competition?

I use Google Keep for quick notes about hunting trips. It will let you enter notes, including pictures, on your phone and then you can clean them up on your PC at home. Using the labels you can create some organization for them, it works kind of like gmail.

@WarEagle – I want to add this functionality in here at some point. What does a good fishing journal provide? The information will be private by default unless shared publicly with option to allow friends access too. Images can be attached to each entry. Geo location of images/entry automatically added but can be manually specified. Time, date, temperature, water temperature, equipment used? species caught and what ever additional freehand information that needs to be noted.

Everyone else that would be interested in this functionality please chime in with your ideas too! Thanks.

Dusty Gesinger wrote:

I know of a couple great options! But I don’t like sharing them. Who would want to deal with the extra competition?

Well played.

Dave, here’s my idea:

I think if you automatically “tagged” a picture with the Army Corps stage, flow water temp, etc., the weather data from NOAA, and GPS data, each angler could build a heck of a database pretty quickly just by taking pictures (which would be saved in the cloud). If the fisherman wants to record the lure or other data, he could include it in the picture or choose to enhance the tag manually. Ease of data entry is key.

Once my database is established, I can click a button on the app and it will search my location (or the location I select, or it will find the location where I’ve done best in the past) based on present Army Corps and NOAA data.

Here’s how you pay for it/profit from it: Free subscriptions are available to anyone, but all data entered is yours to consolidate/share/sell to Lakemaster. If I pay for a subscription, the data would be mine to control (keep private, share with friend users (this encourages others to join)). I would do this if I were assured that my data would remain private (unless I choose otherwise) so long as it was entered during a paid subscription period (i.e. if I terminate my subscription the data I entered during the subscription remains private).

Dusty Gesinger wrote:

I know of a couple great options! But I don’t like sharing them. Who would want to deal with the extra competition?

LOL, except mine was a joke. I am guessing you got nothing……

I like it. I have asked many devs (that have asked for ideas) for just this. An app that congregates all data a fisherman would ask for automatically and bring it into a usable format. Fi$hidy comes close as you can pick your lure (and I think the app pulls in weather data), but falls short on the water data. Love the idea of using a GPS to get your body of water currently fishing and then pulling in data from there. Dropdowns to select fish/lures/bait, be smart enough to know if I am in the middle of the lake when temps are below freezing in January, I am most likely on ice is a great feature. Much of the “pulled in data” can be defaults in a dropdown when conditions call for changes.

Fish Swami actually has a decent setup that I like. It allows you to do several things and keep track of a lot of things. Everything from water conditions to weather conditions and etc.

I use “My Stringer” app to keep a log of places fished, wx, lures, presentation, speeds, etc. It’s a good resource for me to look back at what worked and when.

Thanks for the insight guys. I had already figured on grabbing the weather based on your location and there are various services available for that. (NOAA being one)

The stage/flow/water temp looks like it isn’t available via an API so it would be harder to parse and consume but it should be doable with some effort.

Automatically determining that you are on the water would be difficult. I’d need geographic shape file data for the water body boundaries, similar to neighborhood boundaries like http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/neighborhood-boundaries.htm – a quick google search seems promising though. https://www.google.com/search?q=geographic+shapefiles+water+boundaries

Making data entry quick and painless is always a main goal with any user interface. If your log shows you fished for walleyes 5 times, crappies 3 times and catfish 1 time then that should be the initial order descending with other standard options following those. The same for the lures you use and any other data that is typically logged.

I have been using Fish Swami for 6 years now, but don’t use the pictures feature. Pretty much use it to keep track of how many I caught, what species, and what lure.

Inputting photo’s, local weather for the day, fishing partners info, water temps, lure/bait presentation choices, catch info, time spent on the water……

just a few ideas I would like to see in a journal app

Don’t forget about us Win 10 users. Microsoft gives away software to port an IOS app over to Win 10.

WarEagle wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Dustin Gesinger wrote:</div>
I know of a couple great options! But I don’t like sharing them. Who would want to deal with the extra competition?

LOL, except mine was a joke. I am guessing you got nothing……

I am very confused, but it appears you only have a sense of humor when you are the one joking. Good luck with your app.

I went in the direction of a generic journal APP called Day One. It allows you to attach pictures. There is some location/weather attachment info for the entries but I don’t think it’s specific enough to be very useful. You do have to type in all the information but it’s flexible and you can define or organize the info how you please.

What I really like about it being generic is you can TAG any entry with one (or multiple) tags that make sense to YOU. You can then do a search on those tags and it will bring up all the entries with that tag name. You can do fishing entries, hunting entries, travel entries, etc. and simply tag them as you wish. It has a calendar associated with the entries so you have that information as well. It don’t think, however, it will sort by multiple tags.

Trimble puts out a good hunting one that I use.

Get some thicker skin my man, the dots behind it meant I was joking again……..lol Hard to tell on here yes I know. I imagine a world where everyone can have fun with others. What apps do you use since you know of a few options?

LOL, except mine was a joke. I am guessing you got nothing……

I am very confused, but it appears you only have a sense of humor when you are the one joking. Good luck with your app.
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