Quote:
The value of the journal increases with time.

As one gets older, the ability to remember details starts to fade, and trips of days gone by just begin to blend together.



+1


I wised up and started keeping one back in 93'. Every trip since, where I have a fish encountered gets recorded. This includes bites, rolled fish, hooked & lost and landed. Skunk trips do not get recorded.

I've done it for so long now that at the end of the day it's just automatic to sit down and record what happened for the day-not a hassle at all. Now that I have a 100+ pages of data, it is INVALUABLE for seeing trends and run timings under different conditions on different waters.

I just use a small-size 6" x 8" 3-ring binder with heavy stock lined paper like you'd see surveyors or foresters use. It holds up better over time. Pretty simple.