Private Water Fishing · member report archive
Thirteen thousand member reports, read by rule and joined to the weather each trip was fished under, pointed at one question: which lake is worth booking, and what goes in the boat. Every figure below opens onto the trips it came from.
Members write down what they caught and what they threw far more reliably than they write down the water. Everything on the left is available on almost every trip; everything on the right only exists when somebody mentioned it. Figures drawn from the right-hand list carry their sample size everywhere they appear.
Structured fields, plus weather joined by lake and date
Pulled from the narrative by pattern matching
Each cell compares a bait's catch rate against that month's own baseline, so seasonal swings in the fishing don't masquerade as bait performance. Rates are pulled toward the baseline in proportion to how thin the cell is. Hatched cells are months where that bait was named on too few trips to score.
Trips grouped by the 24-hour pressure change at the lake on the day they were fished. A front is the one condition anglers plan around, and it is on record for every trip whether or not the member mentioned the weather. Restricted to trips whose exact date is known from a reservation — older reports carry a date estimated from when they were posted, and a one-day error ruins a pressure reading.
The same split by cloud cover.
Lakes grouped by acreage, how clear members report the water, and how often they mention vegetation. Any single report rarely describes the water, but a lake with two hundred reports accumulates enough mentions to type it.
Lakes with at least fifteen reports. Catch rate is the median across trips with a countable catch, normalised to fish per hour on the water.