Why I started keeping a fishing log

Paul

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Here is what I track..

The time of day, weather, water temperature, moon phase, lure, presentation and result. The patterns showed up in ways I'd never have caught by feel alone. I also found out that the bass in my home lake hit topwater at a specific time of morning but only from late May through late July, and almost never outside that window. The data told me that, my memory never would have.

What's something you only figured out once you started actually tracking it instead of just trusting your gut?
 
That’s the part people underestimate...once you actually log it, patterns show up that you’d never remember accurately otherwise.
 
I started logging tides for surf fishing, and the patterns became clear pretty quickly. Memory alone just isn’t reliable enough for that kind of tracking.
 
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