Key Factors
· Water temperature · Air temperature · Tides · Water clarity · Catch history · Time of day · Time year · Cloud conditions · Location · Type of bait or lure · Moon phase
While good notes are great, they don't work well if they're not organized and somewhat detailed. The trick is being able to combine the factors of those great, good, or even bad fishing days and establish trends from those factors. As an example, a great day for Redfish may be a water temperature of 76 degrees on an incoming tide in May with fair water clarity, while another time would be fishing with shrimp early in the morning, and fishing at the mouth of say, Bill's Creek. Now that may sound like a big pain in the butt, however, it's far easier than you think once you get in the swing of it. It takes most of the guesswork work out and helps you spend more time fishing productive locations rather than running around trying to luck up on a good hole by trial and error. To break it down, take your notes from the same time last year and use those notes to determine where, when, with what, and so on. More time catching and less time guessing.
Your biggest investment is one of those 99-cent, little notebooks at the dollar store.
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