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Music while fishing..


bigfish1965

Fishing and boat music  

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  1. 1. Does the playing of music in the boat help or hurt your fishing results?

    • Helps! Turn it up!
      16
    • Hurts...be vewy, vewy, quiet...I'm hunting fishes!
      19
    • No difference. Fish are tone deaf and bad lip synchers.
      20


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I like my tunes when I'm fishing. Trolling for salmon I don't know if it make any difference, Over a weed in shallow water probably would.Talk radio might be better, I put a sattelite radio on my boat for those hours the rods don't move.

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Get ear phones if you want to listen to music, unless nobody else is around. Had a nice evening ruined on Rice Lake by guys old enough to know better, we moved as someone else requests for quiet were ignored.

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well, i've never actually fished in a boat. but standing on shore or in a river, it's just a pain to have to deal with an ipod. i have to agree with lesculpjr that the sounds of nature are the way to go.

 

i do however, habitually listen to neil young on my drive home from a day on the water, especially if it involves navigating a country road.

 

nice poll.

 

-d-

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I would never bring music out onto a lake .. the sound travels for miles and would almost certainly ruin someone elses enjoyment of a quiet day on the water... there are lots of places where music can be enjoyed without interfering with others.

 

As for me, personally ... I like the sound of the motor, the sounds of nature and the sound of my clicker as line is screaming off the reel when I get a hit ... not really a matter of whether it scares the fish .... more about WHY I go fishing ...

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I like to listen to music while underway but as soon as I come off of plane I turn it off.I can see the rings of water reverberate from my boat if the water is still and I crank it up.I know the fish can feel it!

Joe

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IMO it makes no difference. I got my biggest walleye trolling with AC/DC playing. We caught lots of whitefish and lakers with the tunes going. Flippin' and pitchin' pads in a very calm bay and managed to pull out a couple of dozen fish. Now I'm certainly not one to be blasting the tunes and maybe that makes a difference. Loud enough to enjoy it myself but not so loud that the guy fishing the other side of the bay can hear it. I've done a test with my buddies to see how loud is "too loud" (when they can hear it about 75 ft away) and have a pretty good idea of what volume I should be at.

 

Now having said all this, I very rarely have the tunes on in the boat. The odd time when I'm by myself or the fishing is very slow.

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Ahh music no problem when trolling .Percher has his blasting all the time and he manages to catch fish.Not sure I would crank up the tunes while still fishing or casting though.

 

Most of the time I don't have music but when I do I enjoy the day more.

 

MTP

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I'd love to get an MP3 of some injured baitfish or something and try playing that with an underwater speaker.

 

Use a leader on the speaker. Speakers make expensive baits.

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I'm a miserable old *as%ard, so NO, I don't like to hear music while out fishing. It is almost as annoying as the sound of someones "fishfinder" beeping continuously as they sit over 3 feet of water with the outboard running!

Once back in the truck on the way home...crank it up! Classic rock or some new Country.

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Throw on a little Pink Floyd, crank it up a bit, the fish seem to bite better.

 

I second that !

 

Its the GFF theory.

 

G*****, Floyd & Fish. If you have those 3 things in place... life is great! :thumbsup_anim:

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