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.
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?