Fishing Journal Software

  • Jason Sullivan
    Chippewa Falls, WI
    Posts: 1383
    September 24, 2007 at 9:32 pm #1256188

    This past weekend when fishing with Don the topic of keeping a journal came up. Don shared with me that he takes notes after every trip.

    This is something that is long over due with me.

    I’m curious if there is good software out there where I can enter a report, but also enter “relevant” data.

    If I put all this data somewhere, I would want something that I could run a quick search to pull up history.

    For example, maybe I want to run a report on everytime I fished Wissota on a full moon day in July to see if there is trend. Or start to enter barometric pressure readings to look at trends.

    Does anything like this exist?

    Sully

    brandy
    Minneapolis, MN
    Posts: 95
    September 24, 2007 at 10:24 pm #610772

    My boyfriend does this and just uses Microsoft Excel. It actually works pretty well! He includes all the info that you mentioned…location, weather, time of day and somehow sets it up, so that he can easily go back and look at the history for the lake he’s going to fish that day. I’m not an Excel expert, so I can’t tell you exactly how he does it, but I could find out. I don’t think it would be that difficult to explain. Especially if you know a little bit about Excel. It’s mostly just knowing the formulas to use to search for the info later. Just let me know if you’re interested and I will try to get you the info.

    kizew
    Dallas, WI
    Posts: 1003
    September 24, 2007 at 10:26 pm #610773

    Sully try LunkerNotes and see what you think – available free @ Lunkernotes

    ScottPugh
    Rogers / Grand Rapids
    Posts: 561
    September 25, 2007 at 12:20 am #610799

    It costs $29.99 but it adds the weather in for you. You can keep all your hunting and fishing in one place.

    http://www.GameTraxx.com

    Jason Sullivan
    Chippewa Falls, WI
    Posts: 1383
    September 25, 2007 at 1:02 am #610813

    Quote:

    It costs $29.99 but it adds the weather in for you. You can keep all your hunting and fishing in one place.

    http://www.GameTraxx.com

    Scott, do you have a membership? It looks like it’s $30 per year.

    Sully

    chico-diablo
    New Richmond, WI
    Posts: 570
    September 25, 2007 at 11:35 am #610869

    I use LunkerNotes myself

    ScottPugh
    Rogers / Grand Rapids
    Posts: 561
    September 25, 2007 at 1:02 pm #610889

    Quote:

    Scott, do you have a membership? It looks like it’s $30 per year.

    Sully

    Yep I do. I have helped them develop / test a few things since they came out late last year. I never kept reports in the past, now I do all mine, and all my friends and use the wether patterns the most.

    Looks like it’s $29.95

    jldii
    Posts: 2294
    September 25, 2007 at 6:58 pm #610999

    What would be sweet would be to have all your notes on an MMC that you could load into your graph whenever you are on the water and need some help! Something you could read just like a map chip. Pull up your lake and scroll thru it for any notes that may help you on any given day.

    ScottPugh
    Rogers / Grand Rapids
    Posts: 561
    September 25, 2007 at 8:08 pm #611014

    How about a PDA of sorts?

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