Innovative thinking

What if you could have a website that you could log onto and view information on fishing around the country?

It's difficult to describe right now. But you can view the best angler,best location, best bait/lure. What's more you could
break this information down by this month of the year, this moon phase, this location, this tide and/or species.

You can view your months of the year and how your fishing has improved throughout the year. You can view a leader board based on
boat, shore.

Each angler would be responsible for honestly entering their catch details, this would then go into a central database which would
allow me to produce graphs and charts based on the various demographics.

Questions like:

- What's the best time to go fishing?
- What's the best location at this time of the year?
- What's the best bait at this time of the year?
- Who has caught the most fish this year/month?
- What's the best moon phase for bass?
- What location has produced the biggest wrasse?
and some many more could be answered with a few clicks of the mouse.


This is just thinking at the moment. There's is quite a bit of development involved in this sort of thing.
But this would be the first site of it's type in the world.
Just out of interest, who would be interested in a site like this?

it would be very interesting reading alright

but hows your data entry - could be very tiresome and boring

Of course anglers would be responsible for entering their catch reports. You would get out of this site what you put into it.

It would be no more difficult than entering catch reports on forum.

i think it could be great if it gets going - an added incentive to posting reports - catches and blanks

would love to know how much blanking actually goes on out there - last year i was 50/50 for the first 3 months of the year!!!

There are lies, damned lies and statistics....... I wish you the best of luck with it Anthony but I think it might be a bridge too far, most people dont bother putting up a brief report even TBH. You will run into problems re locations and especially if theres a leaderboard, a shower of liars..... What, us fishermen liars?!

I think this could be easily done for salmon fishing. Because of the tagging scheme. Maybe I could sell my idea to the fisheries board

Yeah ....We'd all be headin to feckin Bray Head ffs.....LOL

There are lies, damned lies and statistics....... I wish you the best of luck with it Anthony but I think it might be a bridge too far, most people don't bother putting up a brief report even TBH. You will run into problems re locations and especially if there's a leaderboard, a shower of liars..... What, us fishermen liars?!

for once pete is wright i know a lot of good anglers who have stopped posting reports because of the ease of access to other less desirable persons viewing the when where what its gold juice to them

Hello Anthony,
Everyone would be interested but how many will contribute??
The mackerel report thread has around 100 hits for each report (great interest), but put another way it's 1 report for every 100 views (draw your own conclusions).
Again, graphs are a great idea. There was enough support for the mack reports 08 to do two graphs, but it took me a fair while to do just those two! As Corbyeire says entering the data could become a monster

I will support anything you try

Blackie

nothing wrong with the idea at all, but i kinda like the old fashioned reporting stuff to be honest - ploughing through loads of narratives, some of them even written in english, and gawking at the uploaded pictures of varying compositional quality - and then trying to figure it all out for myself from the utter frenetic madness of it all ...

last year i was 50/50 for the first 3 months of the year!!!

And too embarrased (or proud ) to report the ratio for the last 9 months of the year.


Only kidding Brian