[AndyS]

I found these hard covered books with just lined pages. I write by date, then location, then anything else I can think of, wind, air temp, water temp, and just overall observations. If I caught anything I write that down, or if I caught nothing, I also write it down. It has saved me alot of time by not going back and making the same mistake twice. Now I can almost anticipate what is going to happen next, for example I wrote "mullet" in my surf book on Sept. 20th, so it kind of gives me a rough time line I can follow. Sometimes I write down an obsevation of just water temps, for example Nov. 3, 1996 the surf temp was 57*, and on Nov. 4, 1998 the surf temp was 56*, and so on. I also write down phone numbers and keep all my reciepts in there also.