Walden Hollow

Walden Hollow is the logbook for a private fishing club. Members record what they catch, where they caught it, and what they caught it on. Over a season that turns into something no individual angler can see on their own: which holes are producing, how the fish are growing, and how the river fishes at different flows. WHAT MEMBERS DO Log a catch in seconds, on the water or afterwards from memory. Species, length, weight, the fly, the hole, and a photo. River flow and water temperature are pulled from the nearest USGS gauge and recorded with the catch, so every entry carries the conditions it happened in. Record a blank just as easily. A hole that produced nothing is data too, and without it a catch rate is not a rate. Track named fish. The club tags individual trout, so the same fish can be recognised season after season. Every catch of a named fish builds its history: where it was…