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Originally Posted by Jenson71
Great, tooge. Have you always kept those two journals? If not, do you think the entries have helped you keep afresh than the events in which you did not keep the journal?
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I started keeping the outdoor journal in 1997. It is a real nice leather bound journal. It definitely helps out. For example, years ago, I was walleye fishing up at smithville on March 7th. It was cold and gray with just a little breeze out of the west. I didn't catch any walleye, didn't even sniff em. However, I was randomly cruising around and drifing over some river channels and got into some real nice slab crappie schools in 27 feet of water. I would now have a place to start should I want to go crappie fishing in late Feb or early march. As far as the other journal, my wife got it for me when we had our first child. She got one for me when I got my first hunting dog too, and now that she is gone, its cool to read back and remember some great times. My son is 8, so we just recently went on our first road trip with just the two of us to Bennet Springs. It is well documented with all the little cool things he did and said along the way. It'll be fun to look back on someday.