has anyone ever used a logging software for fishing? If so was it any good and which do you like?

I'm in the midst of putting together a little something along those lines in Excel. Thankfully, I'm finally using the few years of employing Excel for trend analysis to good use.:D

I've already created the template to incorporate all the standard info, and now I'm trying to put in a few equations to try and make some sense out of all the data. I'm going to try to input the prevailing wind/barometric pressure/air temperature/sea surface temperature of the three general areas I fish every day. I will also enter in my catches and at what stage of the tide I got them. In addition, I will add catch reports from others so long as the report is bonafide, and I know the stage of the tide the catch was made. I'm going to code in a number of spots and regions as well. A couple seasons worth of data should really show some major and minor trends.

This is in the earliest stages of development, but I will gladly forward it to you when I've come closer to completion.

Also, aren't you a software engineer if I remember the Globe article correctly? If so, do you have any ideas?

Yeah...but database programming is not my interest...and I have seen some stuff on the web for $20-79 that sort of does what you outlined more or less. I tried some some of the demo programs...I just could not get a feel for it, I was wondering if anyone used them here...

hey don, if you get something going there that you think is worth sharing, I am very very interested. I've just started logging my fishing recently on a request from a fellow fisherman. He's shown me how he keeps his records, in a journal, handwriten and it seems it would be better to have it on the computer...