The Sea Angling Diary allows you to log detailed information about your fishing trips.
Easily record your catches, fishing spots, and methods, creating a comprehensive personal record. This not only contributes to a national understanding of recreational angling but also provides you with a clear overview of your fishing trends, helping you identify what works best and plan future trips more effectively.
Current participants
Total catches recorded
The Sea Angling Diary App simplifies the process of recording your fishing activities, making it accessible anytime, anywhere.
This unique app is ONLY available if you SIGN UP as a diarist.
Available at both Android and Apple stores.
See how your catches fair against other anglers
You choose what you share, The ‘Shared Dashboard’ shows the aggregated totals of all the data shared by diarists. You can filter this to see particular dates.
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Track your fishing adventures
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Every angler has a story to tell
“The Sea Angling Diary made me feel like my hobby is making a difference.”
a great way of recording my catches
“Even though I only sea fish occasionally I still wanted to take part”
Even though I only sea fish occasionally I still wanted to take part in the sea angling diary project to give something back to angling, also to help with the scientific monitoring of marine fisheries.
The sea diary also gave me a great way of recording my catches and the rigs, baits and venues I have fished that I can refer back to for the next time I fish there again.
surveys to demonstrate how important angling is
“an opportunity for the recreational angler to have a voice”
I got involved in the Diary because I felt that there is very little known about fish behaviour and the science behind angling. Why is it that I can catch one day, but not the other? Why is it that the guy fishing a few miles away can catch whilst I can’t? By recording everything in detail, I’d like to think that we are helping to contribute to a better understanding.It was also an opportunity for the recreational angler to have a voice, and hopefully for the results of all the surveys to demonstrate how important angling is, whether for economic reasons, or mental health/relaxation and so on.
I use this data to produce tables and charts
“These annual reports allow me to access and look back on overall catches from past years”
The online Web based tool has been my companion since I first enrolled a few years back, the annual reports are particularly useful. These annual reports allow me to access and look back on overall catches from past years. I use this data to produce tables and charts which show changes in fish species count and distribution, as I look for year on year trends.
sea fished for more than 50 years
“I enjoy using the app”
I have sea fished for more than 50 years, I worked at sea from 1976 until November last year, I have fished from the shore or ships all round the UK and Australia, New Zealand, South America, The Caribbean, and other places I can’t remember!
I started fishing in my home town of Plymouth while at school and worked with a commercial fisherman too for a couple of years before going to sea. I was Master for the last 33 years and fished from every ship I was on, wherever it went. I caught many fish over the tears and ate a fair few of them.
I enjoy using the app and reporting sessions, I never measured fish before I started using it, the only fish I routinely kept were Mackerel, my favourite to eat or catch.
regular emails
“I like the fact that this project is always being looked at”
I like the fact that this project is always being looked at. I.e. It’s not something that was created and then never thought about again. The regular emails to fill in the month are quick and easy.
