Some species hunting stats...

[MuskieBait]

I track my species list using Excel spreadsheet. With a few simple formulas, you can generate a bit of stats. Here are some fun stats from my species list...

Canada: 74 new species (ON = 59, BC = 15)

Most productive country: USA with 152 new species (CA = 59, HI = 31, FL = 30, GA = 8, VA = 8, MD = 7, MA = 5, NY = 3)...total estimated days fished = 111 (how's that for efficiency!)

Continental North America: 181

Most productive country outside of North America: Thailand with 13 new species

Freshwater: 85
Saltwater: 172
Brackish: 11
Anadromous: 9

New species by year since I started keeping track...

1998: 6 (combining catches since 1993 when I first started fishing)
1999: 3
2000: 4
2001: 10
2002: 5
2003: 1 (I must have been slacking off!)
2004: 3
2005: 4
2006: 3
2007: 30 (I seriously adopted species fishing...and started traveling)
2008: 13
2009: 35
2010: 53 (year I traveled the most!)
2011: 36
2012: 71

I'm still trying to add some new species this year...hoping to at least get to 75 new species for the year...and if my Christmas plan can go forward, maybe even hit 100 new species for 2012

This stuff is FUN!