Welcome to the Doc's den. Below, you will find various techniques that the Doc uses to fish! From the highly acclaimed fishing app, called Fishbrain, to measuring ambient air pressure, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, to ambient air temperature and water temperature. The Doc is trying to find correlations/fishing patterns in upstate NY fishing spots. Please check his analysis out and let him know what he is missing. The Doc is always open for suggestions, improvements, and support!

Tip-up Setup

I use tip-ups with fishing line from U.S. Line Company (Fl. orange or green; 30 lb) with homemade leaders (Berkley Steelon Nylon Coated Wire 20 lb dia. 0.026; with size 3 wire leader connector sleeves and various small, large beads, and different blades and colors). I use treble #8 hooks.

Data Acquisition Equipment

The Doc uses these equipment to establish his fishing data base!

PASCO Weather Sation

This is an all-in-one setup that measures around 19 different environmental properties, from ambient air temperature, pressure, relative humidity, to wind speed/direction and boat speed. It's very easy to setup using a smartphone and I sample ambient properties every 30 seconds.

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Marcom Recon 5+

I was looking for a small, compact underwater camera that has both, depth and water temperature. I need both to get a temperature-depth profile when I'm on the ice or in the boat. The Marcum recon 5+ has my needs!

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Fishbrain

This app is a great addition to my data analysis. It provides me with species forecast along with weather predictions, wave heights, and sun and moon phases. Comparing this information with astro tables from BASS and Infisherman is exciting!

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Data Analysis

Contour Map of Grass Lake

Grass Lake is located in Redwood, NY is holds many types of fish: pike, perch, bass, crappie, and possibly walleye. The Doc's location is indicated on the map with the double arrow! His tip-up locations are also shown...see contour map for depth analysis!

Temperature Contour map

The figure to the right shows a contour map of the Doc's 5 tip-ups. The data was taken with the Marcum Recon 5+. It was strange to see some sort of inversion layer - we doubled checked. We did catch a lot of largemouth bass today! Note that tip-up # 6 minnow was only ~5 feet below the ice due the weeds.

Fishing Forecast

The figure below shows many things: Lunar periods from BASS, lunar periods from Infisherman, moonrise from the fishbrain app along with species forecast! The top left image is a picture of the ice. It was 16.5 inches.

Number of Fish Bites

The figure below provides bite information on each tip-up and the excel table shows the fish log. Notice that this time, tip-up # 4 had significant amount of bites!