you know what would be cool..

[lurch]

I can do something like that...

say you wanted to go to the canal to fish at pole 9999 on June 10th. I can have it tell you when the best time to start fishing that spot using the data you want. If you like to fish that spot 3 hours before slack when the current is running east on a cloudy day with south winds...the program can send you an e-mail to remind you that this day is a prime fishing day at this spot.

All I need is your best SPOTS and the time you want to fish them

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by lurch

I can do something like that...

say you wanted to go to the canal to fish at pole 9999 on June 10th. I can have it tell you when the best time to start fishing that spot using the data you want. If you like to fish that spot 3 hours before slack when the current is running east on a cloudy day with south winds...the program can send you an e-mail to remind you that this day is a prime fishing day at this spot.

All I need is your best SPOTS and the time you want to fish them

thats exactly what i am talking about- someone could make some coin if they did this right..

My best spots have names you would never understand... the moon, the cave, the keyhole... good luck finding em

[JohnR]

I've been wanting to find a way to have a fishing Journal for S-B folk that could they could update (privately) plus incorporate tide & weather data - only some elements so far...

[Joe]

computer-assisted spot burning....

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Joe

computer-assisted spot burning....

As opposed to print assisted spot burning?

[Joe]

A sharpie knows when to beat a tactical retreat.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Joe

A sharpie knows when to beat a tactical retreat.

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by JohnR

I've been wanting to find a way to have a fishing Journal for S-B folk that could they could update (privately) plus incorporate tide & weather data - only some elements so far...

Check out triptracks.com my friend does that for the Maine Inland Fisheries. Maybe we could cop a deal

[striperman36]

Most of the other material for getting together what eben is suggesting is available online. Would be a cool mashup we could host as a extra paid membership thingy. You could great some dynamically but to get your map as a stored profile you would have to pay member dues to support the site.

[fishpoopoo]

given a particular spot ...

the first pass at a basic model would be to input all the conditions associated with getting a fish, PERIOD.

then, it would be no big deal to drill down deeper to find all the conditions associated with getting a big fish (say, over 48 inches), assuming you have such data.

a robust package would be able to suit the mood you're in. say you want to target big fish, but with plugs on an evening tide in august on a full moon while john kerry is buggering little boys in Edgartown.

then the model becomes a bit more complicated.

truth be told, a paper log is a lot easier to comb through. sometimes there's no substitute for the power of the human mind and meticulous record keeping.

but, if you have the data, it can be done.

[Jigman]

I did something along these lines a few years back for a couple of lakes I fish regularily. Used ArcView, a GIS program. Set up the database with all the variables that I wanted to record and updated after every trip. Had it linked up to maps of the lake. I could run a quick query to obtain some basic data on locations to check out, depth to be fishing, methods, etc prior to a trip to give me at least some starting locations. The better your data, the better the output. You could also write a program to do this associated with a database. Though as bassturbed noted, you need a good deal of quality data before it would really be of any use. By the time you have that kind of data, you pretty much know when to be at your spots anyway.

Jigman