Radio while fishing? 2025
low_pro reply :
Do you listen to the radio while fishing (specifically in a boat)? Do you feel it has any effect on how many fish you catch (positive or negative)? Just curious. Comments welcome
-CV
Eddie Munster reply :
Voted No. I like listening for activity on the lake and fishing is my time away from electronics (other than depth finder).
Someone had a thread awhile ago about Ipods and I think the concensus was no music while fishing.
Catt reply :
Absolutely 
The bass on Toledo Bend are partial to Lynyrd Skynyrd!
Eddie Munster reply :
QuoteAbsolutelyThe bass on Toledo Bend are partial to Lynyrd Skynyrd!
Skynyrd ain't music it's the Gospel.....
roadwarrior reply :
Radio or CD...
Tennessee smallmouth are attracted to loud country music!
8-)
Dad_Golf_Fish reply :
MP3 player hooked to the onboard stereo (sometimes the only thing that's "hooked") when the youngster is with me. She must have her Shrek soundtrack.
George Welcome reply :
Our bass prefer the two-step, being southern and all that. :
Little Luey reply :
No boat here but no music either on my pontoon or while bank fishing.
HAMMER23 reply :
Thats what night fishing is all about, PEACE AND QUIET ! just the sounds of the lake. VOTED NO !!!
Catt reply :
QuoteThats what night fishing is all about, PEACE AND QUIET ! just the sounds of the lake. VOTED NO !!!
Nah dude night fishing is about bouncing a worm or jig to the rhythm of Sweet Home Alabama
Dock Master reply :
Even though my dad listens to it every outing I prefer not to listen to music at all, but since it is my dad's boat can't really do anything about it.
I do believe also that music will sometimes scare the fish.
George Welcome reply :
Bass like to be entertained out there: singing and dancing are very much appreciated by them and will certainly turn the bite on. Even better is falling in the water with cell phone attached. After that it's a bass on every cast. ;D ;D ;D
bilgerat reply :
No way. My part of the world is too noisy already. Plus it interferes with the voices in my head.......
CatBassin reply :
Every so often I will. Me and a buddy found out that shell cracker love hardcore death metal on Lake Lookout.
Sam reply :
Need quiet to concentrate.
bronzewb22 reply :
Although i do enjoy blasting skynyrd as much as the next smallie fishermen, ive found that when i really need a bite, it pays to listen. Sometimes you'll miss a splash next to the boat or be to engrossed in the music to notice something jumping near the bank. That could have been the fish of a lifetime.
Micro reply :
If the radio is on, I can't hear my bait plop in the water, or whine of my reel during a cast, or myself cuss when I screw up a cast...
burleytog reply :
The voices in my head prefer silence.
Wayne P. reply :
Several of my most successful days bass fishing was due to hearing the splash of baitfish being chased on the surface more than 50 yards away. Not only do I not have music on my boat, I don't even like having a person with me that talks a lot.
Joe Boss reply :
I voted never. When I am fishing I like the music that nature makes over anything that comes out of a radio.
CWB reply :
Only if it's Heavy Metal. Gets fish angry and they hit anything in sight.
Little Luey reply :
QuoteNot only do I not have music on my boat, I don't even like having a person with me that talks a lot.
LOL, I know what you are saying! I agree with that.
NasTMcfingas reply :
Voted No, I get enough music on the drive to the spot.
Bassnajr reply :
Need ALL of your senses to fish IMO.
ajr
If you're screwing around fun fishing...different story.....
SaintsFn reply :
I pop one ear but from my Zune. Normally, would put in two, but since i bank fish, I want to make sure I don't have to put a hook into an onshore fish of the two legged variety.
But, if I had a boat, something with some bass in it. Don't Bass like bass??
zaraspook_dylan2 reply :
QuoteVoted No. I like listening for activity on the lake and fishing is my time away from electronics (other than depth finder).Someone had a thread awhile ago about Ipods and I think the concensus was no music while fishing.
yup
bigfruits reply :
i voted never. and i hate hearing other peoples music while on the water. kind of spoils the whole mood for me.
Catt reply :
Now I know why 35 of us out fish the other 45
I.rar reply :
if im by myself , never.
if im with someone else and were not getting anything and are just in the BS'ing mood , maybe.
but i really prefer silence or some light talking with the partner.
Fishing Rhino reply :
QuoteQuoteVoted No. I like listening for activity on the lake and fishing is my time away from electronics (other than depth finder).Someone had a thread awhile ago about Ipods and I think the concensus was no music while fishing.
yup
During the spawn they do.
Other than then, they may just peacefully co-exist.
fivesixone reply :
QuoteI pop one ear but from my Zune. Normally, would put in two, but since i bank fish, I want to make sure I don't have to put a hook into an onshore fish of the two legged variety.But, if I had a boat, something with some bass in it. Don't Bass like bass??
You're confusing me.... ;D
No radio on the boat for me. I wanna hear if there's a frenzy goin' on somewhere next to me!
coffee reply :
heck, I don't even like music in the truck, certainly not on the water.
grimlin reply :
Nature's music is all i need.
Sound of the wind,trees,fish splashing,birds screaming,ducks quacking....ect,ect.
I find it soothing to the soul.....
HogHunter reply :
For me it depends on the mood. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't.
silvercliff_46 reply :
QuoteNature's music is all i need.Sound of the wind,trees,fish splashing,birds screaming,ducks quacking....ect,ect.
I find it soothing to the soul.....
When it's hot, humid, not a breath of wind, and the sky looks like pea soup, I put the weather alarm radio on. So I said sometimes. Other then that forget it, and I REALLY don't like being entertained by some other guy in another boat slammin and jammin. If you like it loud buy some head-phones.
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Recker reply :
Got to have the radio jamming. Thats when I do the best
silvercliff_46 reply :
QuoteGot to have the radio jamming. That's when I do the best
AND if you don't have ear phones on and you ask me how the fishing is, I get instant Alzheimer and may well steer you in the wrong direction.
Your from Green Bay, did we ever meet on Cauldron Falls.., I don't REMEMBER?????????? 
Surgin reply :
QuoteNature's music is all i need.Sound of the wind,trees,fish splashing,birds screaming,ducks quacking....ect,ect.
I find it soothing to the soul.....
Amen!
andamtoft reply :
it really depends, most of the time no when it matters, or im with friends, sometimes when im by my self and go fishing as a stress reviler i will. but the sound of nature is a lot more effective However before a tournament i can see my self doing it to get myself in the zone lol
Muad Dib reply :
i like hearing the sounds of fish hittin the surface, the wind movin the leaves and just the abscence of outside noise.
t.
dj T nasty 69 reply :
yep im a hip hop dj
but when im on my boat i have the jazz playing low and light in the background
...so peacefull on the water....
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