Tucanare , A.K.A. Peacock bass or Pavon

Tucanare , A.K.A. Peacock bass or Pavon
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Monday, April 30, 2012

Strike king trip log app for iPhone

 so i had seen this thing advertised on the outdoor channel show "strike king pro journal" good show by the way. looked like a great log to have easy to use, good way to keep track of catches with time and date stamps all the pertinent weather and even the gps coordinates. 99 cents why not right. well i got to try it out last weekend and was kinda disappointed. it does do a lot of what its supposed to do but its just so damn time consuming. you have 6 steps to do every time you catch a fish and thats after you weight measure and release the fish! it takes like 10 min to log in the info of the catch!! who dosent wanna get right back in the water asap! step one  is the new trip add, name of the location and gps is added after you type in the name. it times stamps it and then moves onto step 2 which gives you the weather . you can edit it if your weather isn't what its saying it is, mine was not right had to change it every shot, but then thats usually the way weather works right hahaha. set the moon phase and then onto step 3 water temp,color,visibility. and depth. it gives the tides too if your in the ocean or subject to tidal changes our lake is not, all of these have to be set by you, they aren't like the weather set from NWS. step 4 is the rod and reel and line line info. again very basic choices you can't go into any detail on them you get to pick very general selections from a list.5 you can add a photo of the location or fish or whatever you want, but it has to be taken before the whole process starts , you can't snap away once this app is engaged.6 is the fish you add you catches  weight, length and a choice of strike king lures only what you used to catch them, i was using a terminator spinnerbait and there was only strike king pro models to choose from but if you don't care to be exact it won't matter. every time you catch a fish you have to add the location to the trip log and go thrue the steps and can't even get the right info in a lot of the slots. some parts of the app are great but i don't see myself using this much, it too time consuming and inaccurate. its just as easy and much after to goto the note pad on the phone type in the weight length and anything pertinent and be back in the water in a minute or two . get home and get much more detailed. i mean i may be getting old but i still can remember trip info even weeks out, besides whats this blog for hahahaha. id save on the 99 cents and room on the phone and maybe there is a better log out there, if there isn't I'm sure there will be. every day I'm amazed at how much more stuff is added to these damn things.

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