fishin log

what is the best way to keep an organized log on your computer is there a program or a way to scan written logs and then organize them the way you whant like by weather, season and such, any info would be great.

thanks
chuck

[QUOTE=smuckey41;344909]what is the best way to keep an organized log on your computer is there a program or a way to scan written logs and then organize them the way you whant like by weather, season and such, any info would be great.

thanks
chuck[/QUOTE]

Excel would probably be your best bet. You can create collums for every category (water temp, air temp, wind, weather, depth, structure, time or whatever. Once you get in a play around with the data options, you will discover you can organize and sort through the data quickly with the excel options. It keeps it nice and neat too.

I use an excel worksheet. Printed out several copies and put them in a 3-ring binder. I seperate these by lake and have columns for water temp, date, productive lures, wind condition and a comment section that I can add any other info. as to the hows and wheres and who I'm fishing with. I also include a couple of picture binders with each lake to show fish I've caught there if a camera were available. In the first half of the binder I have info in there that I have gotten from the Internet referring to anything from lure color to locating and anything that pertains to fishing that I could find including an article from some guy named Dave Stuart on Ledge Fishing.

Here is a web site that will let you do exactly what you want. It's free and you can keep the info from year to year and store where ever you want.

[URL]http://onlinefishinglog.com/login.html?login_expired=1&isdialog=&p=%2Fhome.html[/URL]

B.A.S.S has a book Organizer with the moon phases and a calender and everything... Its nice!!! I ordered one the other day. I think its 14.99 or somethin like that.
[url]www.Bassmaster.com/planner[/url]
Hope this helps... Love mine!

[QUOTE=Col Forbin;344911]Excel would probably be your best bet. You can create collums for every category (water temp, air temp, wind, weather, depth, structure, time or whatever. Once you get in a play around with the data options, you will discover you can organize and sort through the data quickly with the excel options. It keeps it nice and neat too.[/QUOTE]

Hey.......

I've been using Microsoft Access, and have actually written some pretty cool stuff into the process.......

I've been SERIOUSLY thinking about trying to market it, but since we have some rules about advertising here......if you guys are willing to TEST it, and give me some good feedback, I will post a link on my website to download it.

It does LOTS of stuff......

* Database of Lures
* Database of Conditions
* Database of Lakes........and doing some CREATIVE stuff with mapping, google maps, etc, etc.
* Database of Trips.
* Query Engine to issue what if queries.
* Reporting system.

Later,

Geo

Yeah I would test it, been looking for a fishing log on the net myself

That onlinefishinglog.com is awesome I just tried it and entered my last trip in and it is sweet it calculates stats for you and all kinds of stuff.....GOOD CALL MSG MILLS!

I use this. It is nice to have

[URL]http://www.bassresource.com/fish/fishing_log.html[/URL]

Sorry...I scan it and save as a pdf file and sort by lake in different files. You could create files by month, weather, temp, etc.

Thanks for all this information gentlemen, I was wondering how people tracked this stuff so efficently.

Rob

i guss i ant the only bassaholic who likes to log there stuff just need an easyer way to organize and got alot of good info
thanks everyone
chuck