I write up all my sessions, depending on how often you go it can actually get to be a bit of a chore especially if you do lots of short sessions like I do.
One big change I made was to move from a paper based diary to an electronic one...basically I do it on the computer now either as a word doc or just a rolling email that you keep sending to yourself and adding to it. You can obviously print it out if you want a hard copy as well. This was allot quicker and easier than the old paper diaries that I used to keep.
In terms of headings..date, venue, time from & to fished, quick note of weather conditions and then an anecdotal description of the session which can be very short ...one line if there is nothing really to report to much longer if there is lots to report. Its in the anecdotal bit that I describe the tackle & tactics, anything caught and basically anything of note.
The other thing I do is if I catch something and take photos I make a note in the diary that I took a photo and then I make sure my photo has a date on it so I can refer to the diary for the details of how I caught it and what it weighed etc.
This sounds like small point but believe after a while it can become very difficult to remember what a fish weighed or how you caught it just by looking at a photo so I always make sure I can match it to a diary entry for the details.
One big change I made was to move from a paper based diary to an electronic one...basically I do it on the computer now either as a word doc or just a rolling email that you keep sending to yourself and adding to it. You can obviously print it out if you want a hard copy as well. This was allot quicker and easier than the old paper diaries that I used to keep.
In terms of headings..date, venue, time from & to fished, quick note of weather conditions and then an anecdotal description of the session which can be very short ...one line if there is nothing really to report to much longer if there is lots to report. Its in the anecdotal bit that I describe the tackle & tactics, anything caught and basically anything of note.
The other thing I do is if I catch something and take photos I make a note in the diary that I took a photo and then I make sure my photo has a date on it so I can refer to the diary for the details of how I caught it and what it weighed etc.
This sounds like small point but believe after a while it can become very difficult to remember what a fish weighed or how you caught it just by looking at a photo so I always make sure I can match it to a diary entry for the details.