Fishing, no matter how good a person gets at it, is still the grandest puzzle of all. There are so many elements that have to be put into place such as weather, season, bait, lures, and so on. When looked at in hindsight, these puzzle pieces provide a picture of past successes and give the angler a chance to take black-and-white facts, as opposed to blurry season-to-season memories and apply them on the water. To help put the pieces together, a fishing log can be an impressive tool. The primary benefit of having a fishing journal is based on the fact that ink on paper is always clearer than sifting through memories on the shoreline. Sure, you could remember that those late-March walleyes you caught two years ago were slow biters and needed some real work to catch, but having it written down for review in a fishing log for the seasons to come will help jog your memory with greater ease.