Fishing Line Vs Guitar String

[bigbill]

I was using my cheap noisy spinning reel at this place deep in the woods where anyone hardley fishes. The bank is 4' above the water. I can see most of the fish because it's shallow and the water is clear. It's very quiet too. I'm cranking my noisy reel. I see a bluegill at the spot where my line enters the water. It's like he is listening to my line.

I figure the noise from my reel is vibrating down my line into the water line a guitar string. My question is if I use a baitcasting reel does the click of the casting lever when it resets go down my line into the water too? Some of these bait casting reels make a loud snap when they reset to reel again. My point if we're fishing at a very quiet place could noises like this spook the very aware bass?

On my spinning reels after casting I close my bail by hand very quietly. There is no way to make this noise quiet on a bait caster. When I start out fishing in the dark I'm very stealthy like I'm not even there. I make no noises at all. The fish are close to me at the shoreline. My BP of 10lbs was caught 2' from shore about 8' from me when she hit. I made a long parallel shoreline cast. I wonder if the noise of the bait casting lever will spook the bass?

[bigbill]

We must remember that sound travels farther and faster under the water too.

[dodgeguy]

you worry way to much. just get out and fish.

[smalljaw67]

That is too much thinking!!!! On a serious note if you are on shore then just stepping on the ground is causing more vibration that the click of a reel engaging.  The bluegill you saw at the spot where the line enters the water is common, I believe the fish is reacting to the surface tension on the line because it is a just a small disturbance of what a small insect would make. I think that theory gets proven as I often have small bluegill that will actually strike at that spot, this normally occurs when fishing a worm or jig very slowly and it occurs a lot when you are bottom fishing with live or cut bait of some type, it is the look, not the sound that get the bluegill interested.

[bigbill]

I'm seeing bigger bass swim by me just off shore at the drop off's I'm trying to nail down what alerts these bigger gals so they don't strike. If I see these bigger gals at all of my local hot spots up in the northeast then you guys fishing south of me have to have bigger bass too. This can't be a fluke here.

I'm very stealthy went I walk up slowly and quietly to my hot spots. I handle my tackle like a sniper handles his rifle. I take this stalking very seriously. Cleared my throat once and watched a big wake in the water going away from the shoreline where I was standing at twilight. I just don't understand why I don't see more of these bigger bass being caught when I know they are there.

I lost two of these bigger bass already. One took my bps topnocker into the deeper thick weeds. And the other inhaled my bps 7 1/4" stick o worm when I had too small of a hook in it. She spit it when I went to set the hook. I've been so close so far. It's either something from our rod setup that makes them aware or the boats spook them in your case. There has to be something out of the ordinary that alarms them. These larger bass appear like ghosts in the water then there gone.

I'm not over thinking this, I'm looking for ideas as to what's going on. Bigbill

Btw, When I mentioned this on a CT Fisherman website the local torque guys mocked me then some were catching between 9lb to 11lb bass soon after. One threw a spinner bait from shore and landed a 9lber. Before this happened one of the Tornies guys said we only had 6 to 7lb bass max that's it because he never caught anything bigger. He was dead wrong. All these baby bass that are restocking these places aren't coming from the smaller gals. It's these bigger gals that are keeping the population up. At one local lake here we have a weed chopper to keep the over grown weeds down. It killed a 12lb bass in the process and no one connected the dots that we have bigger bass here. It should of been a wake up call, the light bulb should of went off in there minds but no thought was given to it.

The body slams I hear in the dark sound like a human doing a cannonball into the water. These aren't the little bass I'm hearing.

Thank you for your time in reading this it's just food for thought. The facts to think about.

[new2BC4bass]

Bill, you have to watch the wording in the topic line.  I thought you were experimenting with guitar strings for fishing. 

[bigbill]

I'm attracting the bass threw music. They like Elvis too.

[ww2farmer]

It's as simple as this.... If you can see them, they can see you.... Game over. You are over thinking it.

[Preytorien]

I certainly know what you mean bigbill about spooked bass. I fish one pond that it seems like just blinking scares them off, then it seems the fishing never gets started the rest of the day. Then again, they didn't get big by showing themselves all over and hitting any bait that came bubbling by......

 

I don't have a boat, so I've had to perfect my shoreline process as much as possible to keep from spooking those big gals.

 

In addition to ww2farmer's advice of limiting how well they can see me, the single most effective thing I've used is Hank Parker's suggestion to stay way back off the shoreline. This (hopefully) reduces the amount of ground vibration they'll feel, as well as any additional noises that may spook them, like a clicking reel, jiggling tackle, etc. probably won't be heard.

 

This summer while the bass have been shallow in the evenings, this tactic has been the #1 biggest contributor to what amounts to the most successful summer I've had.