What Music Do You Listen To While Fishing?

[AQUA VELVA]

None, it's just a distraction. My Harley came with a sound system I never used for the same reason.

[Alex bass slayer]

I like keeping an earbud in at the lake, and i listen to:panic at the disco, fall out boy, we the kings, or mayday parade.

[Lendiesel22]

Any Zeppelin or Neil Young 

[Swampstud]

I dont know how some of yall can get so upset by music, loud music. I put my phone volume on high and rock out haha. now jet ski's are too darn noisy n pesky.

[AnglerNo.2112]

I'm a bank fisherman and I like to put one earbud in and leave one ear free. I don't listen to music though, I listen to podcasts and audiobooks.

The places I fish at there's not a lot of powerboats so I've never seen people go by blasting music but if I did it would drive me crazy and make me not want to fish there.

There's something incredibly disrespectful about playing your music loud in a public place and forcing others to hear it. Doesn't matter if it's family friendly music or gangster rap either, it's still disrespectful. I like to listen to my music loud every one in a while and I do it at home or in the car sometimes but I turn it down when I'm stopped at intersection and I don't have a ridiculous subwoofer farting in my trunk.

Just don't act like an animal and show some common respect and courtesy to your fellow man.

[Dwight Hottle]

NONE

The noise of man is left in my wake,

so I can listen to the music of nature.

Roger

X2

[Spotswood]

I listen to the Eagles... not the band, but the birds.

[Hattrick7]

Freshwater just what nature provides most of the time.

Saltwater stuff that only sounds good at higher volumes (ACDC, etc)

[dpeels37354]

I use headphones but I like to listen to Kid Cudi while I'm fishing.

[Felix77]

complete silence unless I am with my friends ... they are talkers.  LOL

[ASIANTOO]

I like Enya but my friend would through me of the boat. Lol. Really guess I don't listen to any music.

[everythingthatswims]

I feel like I would miss out on clues that would help me catch fish if I listened to music...We do sometimes have the radio on when we are fishing on our boat, it's not a bass fishing boat though haha, we fish the ocean and the bay (chesapeake) with it, half the time we are trolling so it's loud anyways

[Brian6428]

I'm not gonna lie, some of you guys act like fishing is your job. For me it is just about being out on the lake, relaxing and having a good time. I have had some very enjoyable days where no fish were caught, it was just nice to be on the lake, enjoy my brother's company, and explore a few creeks.

 

As for this relating to music, I do whatever I feel like. If somebody else is on the boat we just talk without music, but if I am by myself I will play music. Whenever I do play music I will put a hip-hop/rap pandora station. Nothing too loud so it doesn't bother anybody else, though.

[Nicky Greece]

Crappie like Disco...  It's a long story...

[Choporoz]

If I'm listening to music, it isn't mine and I'm none too happy about it.  Actually I'm quite amazed at how many here do listen to music while fishing.  I have never once thought about listening to music while fishing.  But, I'm even more amazed (and dismayed) by those that think its perfectly ok to inflict their music on others.  On a lake....or anywhere else.....wow.  

[BasshunterJGH]

Earl Dibbles Jr. Yee yee!

[RSM789]

None, but not because I don't like music.  In fact I usually have a song stuck in my head the entire time I am fishing.

 

I don't use earbuds because I want my ears available to hear everything else that is going on, from fishing revealing themselves to someone trying to get my attention for assistance.  With even 1 earbud in, you are making yourself deaf to other sound from that direction.

 

I don't play music through speakers, even at a low level, because the vibration goes to the water, alerting the fish of your presence.  Doesn't matter if it is built-in speakers in your boat or a small radio sitting on the deck, that creates additional vibrations.

 

I don't care if other people listen to music, but I do expect folks to show common courtesy.  I am not trying to enforce my silence on you, please don't force me to listen to your music or meaningless conversation. 

 

Worst example I witnessed of this was on Lake Mead a few years back.  It was minutes after sunrise, the lake was like glass & I was on the main lake off a point fishing striper boils.  I hear some music and it takes me about 30  seconds to figure out it is coming from a yellow boat that I can barely see, I'm guessing it was 2 miles away.  It was some people skiing and as they get closer, the volume of the music they were playing was ridiculous.  When they were about 200 yards away from me, it sounded like I was at a concert.  At that distance, I could see they had some kind of "rollbar" across the top of the ski boat & there were 4 huge speakers mounted to it.  Luckily, the person they were pulling was a good skier and didn't fall, so in a matter of minutes they were far enough uplake that I couldn't hear them anymore.  I just wonder how many folks were asleep in their houseboats as Music Boat cruised by, waking them up and making them wonder what was disturbing the peace in this National Park.

[Sturgeon]

No music on my boat.  Ranger didn't come with it when I bought it, but if I did it would be just about anything since I listen to it all.  Maybe some  Metallica or Yelawolf or Josh Turner.  However I have a huge list of wants for the boat and that's at dead bottom of the list.  Figured this topic would end up pretty wild. LOL

[Lund Explorer]

Unfortunately, I get to listen to whatever ring tone the person I'm fishing with has on his phone. 

 

Over, and over, and over.

[Mainebass1984]

No music is allowed in my boat. I would rather listen to the sounds of nature. They are pleasing to listen to and clue me in on what the fish are doing. Keep that music crap at home along with your annoying ring tones.

[geo g]

With Pandora and blue tooth speakers the possibilities are endless.  Mainly 70's and 80's music and country.  I just enjoy music and I do what I enjoy.  But not loud!

[ThatZX14Fella]

I don't listen to music while fishing, however I do jam out anytime I'm going to fish or coming back from fishing. Three Days Grace, Slipknot, Suicide Silence, BMTH, etc.

[Steveo-1969]

I don't listen to music when I fish, but like some other posts I always have the last song I heard on the radio on the way to my fishing spot in my head.  For hours.  Saturday afternoon I saw a large bird swimming in the middle of the river and was trying to figure out what it was.  Then I heard it's call.  A loon!!  I rarely see them here, only when they are migrating.  With ear buds in, I never would have heard it. 

[Josh Smith]

Music? While fishing?

[Big Jon]

I don't listen to music while fishing anymore. I don't have a portable music player (well, I have a phone, but no music on it). I suppose, if I had a boat, I would play some country (quietly).