Listening to music while bass fishing

[moguy1973]

8 minutes ago, scaleface said:

I prefer not to listen to music . I listen to cardinal baseball if I have a radio .

Go Cards!  Go Blues!

[Log Catcher]

I don't listen to music while fishing. The only time I had a radio on the boat was a weather radio to listen to occasionally to check weather conditions. I prefer to let nature be my sounds to listen to. I was fishing a creek the other day. Came across another fellow in his boat fishing. We stopped and talked for a while and had a very nice conversation. That probably wouldn't have happened if either one of us had a radio turned on.

[Wizzlebiz]

4 hours ago, Jaderose said:

Fishing for me is about waaaaay more than catching fish.  It's about a disconnect from the modern world.  I carry no cell phone, no camera.  The boat I fish from most of the time has no electronics of any kind with the exception of a trolling motor.  The lake I fish has no pleasure boaters.  70% of the time, I'm the only boat on the lake.  I need that disconnect.  My soundtrack is nature.  I went with a buddy one time that insisted on playing music and was miserable.  I couldn't get into the head space I like to be in to fish.  I'm not really thinking, I'm just reacting to my surroundings and conditions.  Relying on experience and muscle memory.  That's a good place

I have yet to not listen to music while fishing. But I see your point. Its is 8am and im heading out to the lake. I am going to try no music today and see how it goes!

[MIbassyaker]

I love music, and enjoy listening to almost anything, especially live.  But i can listen to music everywhere else: in the car, at home, at work, walking around the neighborhood, at social or community events.

 

What I don't get do to much-- other than when I'm on the water-- is unplug, check out, and surround myself with the sounds of the outdoors. As far as I'm concerned, the sound of a natural environment is it's own sort of music...and it's live. 

[geo g]

When you drive a car do you listen to music?  You have to concentrate while driving, so it doesn't negatively effect my fishing.  If it's early in the morning and I want to hear the sounds of nature I won't turn on music.  But the rest of the day I will listen to it because I enjoy music.  Sound carries on water so I don't play it loud.  If I'm approaching other fisherman I will turn it down.  When fishing gets tough, it sometimes gives me different rhythms from different music I'm listening too, until I find a pattern in my movements that the fish like.  It relaxes me which is important in fishing.  I usually listen to 70's and 80's music, and modern country.  Fishing and music are two of my favorite things in life!

[haggard]

14 hours ago, Mobasser said:

I don't listen to music while I fish. I just like it quiet. If I did listen it would probably be old school country. Merle, Hank, Buck, and Johnny Cash

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[Sphynx]

Usually no, but I am an avid sports fan and if my fishing times overlap a sporting event I am interested in I will absolutely listen to the baseball or football game while fishing

[GreenPig]

When it's windy and I'm alone I've got one ear bud in listening to classical, country, rock, or metal. The waves hitting my little aluminum boat gets old quickly.  No rap music. No rap music. The BASS GODS hate rap music.? On a calm day/night no music for me. 

[Jaderose]

22 hours ago, Wizzlebiz said:

I have yet to not listen to music while fishing. But I see your point. Its is 8am and im heading out to the lake. I am going to try no music today and see how it goes!

I'm not advocating for or against music while fishing.  It's just not for me.  Hell, one of my other hobbies is refurbing old stereo equipment AND I'm working on a putting together a weekly radio show to air on a local radio station so it's not like I dislike music....lol.  My GARAGE stereo system is better than most people will ever have in their homes

[OCdockskipper]

16 hours ago, geo g said:

When you drive a car do you listen to music? 

Yes, however I am not driving the car in order to enjoy the experience of driving the car.  Driving the car is typically a mundane process I am doing in order to get somewhere, it is a chore if you will (especially in Southern California) and music is a pleasant distraction from doing it.  If I was driving a race car, I probably wouldn't listen to music and instead just focus on the intense experience of driving at a high rate of speed.

 

And like JadeRose, I am not advocating against people listening for music.  I own a home theater company, it would cost me money if folks stopped listening to music while doing stuff around the house .

[NHBull]

By myself, no music

With my fishing partner, no music 

With someone I envite on to balance the boat, no music

With my family they can listen to both country or western, very low.?

 

Since I am still adjusting to new hearing aids, almost everything is a distraction ?

[Wizzlebiz]

6 hours ago, Jaderose said:

I'm not advocating for or against music while fishing.  It's just not for me.  Hell, one of my other hobbies is refurbing old stereo equipment AND I'm working on a putting together a weekly radio show to air on a local radio station so it's not like I dislike music....lol.  My GARAGE stereo system is better than most people will ever have in their homes

Understood.  So I went like I had said and fished without music. The results were stellar tbh. I noticed things I was not noticing before. I heard fish in areas I was not fishing. And due to it I caught 4 large mouth and my PB. So thank you. 

[keagbassr]

Never music but back in the day before all this digital crapola I would bring a portable t.v. and watch football while I fished. Never noticed that it hurt my catching.

[Deleted account]

Listening to music while bass fishing

 

No, not because I think it will scare fish, but because when I'm fishing, I'm fishing. Same with beer, cigars, etc. 

[Bankbeater]

I usually don’t listen to anything while fishing. When I’m out on the water I like to hear what is going on around me. Sometimes those thunderstorms pop up behind me. 

[BuzzHudson19c]

No music for me. Fishing is the entertainment.

 

 

[geo g]

5 hours ago, OCdockskipper said:

Yes, however I am not driving the car in order to enjoy the experience of driving the car.  Driving the car is typically a mundane process I am doing in order to get somewhere, it is a chore if you will (especially in Southern California) and music is a pleasant distraction from doing it.  If I was driving a race car, I probably wouldn't listen to music and instead just focus on the intense experience of driving at a high rate of speed.

 

And like JadeRose, I am not advocating against people listening for music.  I own a home theater company, it would cost me money if folks stopped listening to music while doing stuff around the house .

Do whatever you want, I do what I want.  It makes me happy and relaxed and that's the only thing important!

[Yakalong]

Early in the morning I like the quiet, however, as the lake picks up with traffic I love my tunes. I don't think bass care one way or another about the music.  

[NYWayfarer]

Nature is all the music I need. 

 

I vividly remember my college psychology professor in the 80’s railing against the Walkman generation and how they “tune out” life by listening to music 24/7. He had a point that stuck with me. What happened to being alone with ones thoughts?

 

I find fishing a great time to think about life and all my blessings. I love music, just not when I am fishing.

[Scott F]

I never listen to music while fishing. While driving to the river and back, definitely. I also don’t want to hear yours or anybody else’s music while I’m fishing either. 

[WRB]

Doesn't bother the fish but boom box blaring music from wake boats bother me!

I enjoy being outdoors without adding any music. 

Tom

[DanielG]

In the early morning I listen to the morning news on local public radio the later on a little soft rock maybe. Sometimes I just turn it off.

I've got a stereo on the boat.

[deadadrift89]

For over 20yrs I never listened to anything. Now I always listen to different podcast on my phone with or without earbuds. Fish don't seem to care but I'm not using a stereo built-in boat either, I imagine if I cranked up some AC/DC the fish would care ? 

[OCdockskipper]

14 hours ago, geo g said:

Do whatever you want, I do what I want.  It makes me happy and relaxed and that's the only thing important!

I never advocated for you to do something different.  I was addressing your comparison of fishing to driving a car, which was comparing apples to oranges.

[TnRiver46]

I usually listen to music while fishing, unless I forget my Bluetooth speaker. One time late in the evening a boat kept drifting closer and closer to me so I turned down the volume and asked the guy if he was having any luck fishing. He said "no, I was just trying to listen to that solid country gold you had playing!" I will turn down any music except for Willie Nelson. Them's  fightin' words!!!!!!