Your favorite fishing sounds

[gim]

41 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

When I hear that, I know I’m in a good spot to kill and eat some fish

Too bad the majority of eagles are scavengers though.  They mostly eat dead, rotting fish.  A lot of people think they are this majestic efficient fish killer but the reality is that they eat more like a vulture.

[fin]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

Speaking of sounds, the most gosh-awful sound has to be a Great Blue Heron.

 

There’s a popular fishing spot here at an intersection of a spillway and a creek. There’s a heron that hangs out around there, and it flies low along the creek, below the treetops lining the creek, at an altitude of 15-20 feet. You’ll be sitting there fishing, unable to hear anything over the rushing water, when it comes silently flying up from behind, and just as it gets right above you it will let out a screech that is blood-curdling. It sounds like a pterodactyl about to rip off your head. It rattles my nerves every single time, but it also makes me laugh every single time, because I think that heron loves doing that.

[GRiver]

I love the sounds of nature, the birds, gators and the turtles splashing going in the water.
I love for them to be interrupted by the sound my reel makes when the drag is getting peeled out.  
I’m like “oh yeah…. Game on” 

[TnRiver46]

29 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Too bad the majority of eagles are scavengers though.  They mostly eat dead, rotting fish.  A lot of people think they are this majestic efficient fish killer but the reality is that they eat more like a vulture.

All the studies I looked at in college had 60+% gut contents of waterfowl for bald eagles. I’ve seen them catch live fish several times, but I have seen one eating a dead raccoon on the side of the road too 

[Dwight Hottle]

The call of a loon. The sound of a singing drag. The toilet bowl flush of a big fish hitting a topwater. 

[Kirtley Howe]

All the sounds mentioned are great to hear...but one of my favorites is the sound of a flock of geese returning to our area in the spring, and the sound of the flock of geese leaving our area in the fall. Both of those signal great fishing times for me.

 I also love the sound of a beaver slapping the water with its' tail either at first light in the morning or at dusk....

The "cooing" sounds of mourning doves along the river during early morning hours. It is a sweet and faintly sad sound, but also very soothing.

The gentle sound or a light summer rain hitting the water. 

The soft hiss of canoe gliding through the water.

The gurgling sound of shallow rapids on the river.

The magical sound that a waterfall makes.

The absolute dead silence of a fog shrouded morning on the river or lake in the middle of nowhere.

The sound of a gentle breeze "sighing" through the trees on the riverbank.

The sound of distant thunder on a warm summer night.

The sound of a train in the distance.

The croaking of a bullfrog.

The sound of "peepers" on a warm night.

And so many more sounds and smells that are part of being outdoors in the country.

[BassinCNY]

I like pulling up to a large pad field and hearing the kissing sound that sunfish make when they're taking something off the surface.

[Susky River Rat]

The sound of a jet boat getting on plane.

[Swamp Girl]

18 minutes ago, Kirtley Howe said:

All the sounds mentioned are great to hear...but one of my favorites is the sound of a flock of geese returning to our area in the spring, and the sound of the flock of geese leaving our area in the fall. Both of those signal great fishing times for me.

 

Gosh, YES!

 

I love your entire list. Thank you.

[guitarplaya39]

My old outboard running smoothly.

[TOXIC]

A sound that avid Senko fishermen know.  When a Senko hits the water tail first and is like an Olympic swimmer sticking the entry from the 10 meter tower. 

[Swamp Girl]

43 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

The call of a loon. The sound of a singing drag. The toilet bowl flush of a big fish hitting a topwater. 

 

Dwight, yesterday evening, I had just the opposite. The bass weren't hitting my surface lure. They inhaled it with no sound and I didn't even know they'd hit until my line tightened. It was weird. 

[J._Bricker]

I like the initial sound my Mercury ProXS makes at ignition and the low grumbling tone that follows. The gurgle of a buzzbait or plopper producing a bubble trail across the stillness of the water as I anticipate a blowup as it approaches a piece of cover. The sound of braid singing through the guides of my rod at hook set announcing the fight is on! The popping sounds coming from under a mat telling me bluegills are feeding. A bullfrog croaking in the distance bringing back memories of frog gigging trips long ago. The calls of redwing and yellow headed blackbirds back in the tullies, a pheasant crowing on a levee or the whistle of swan wings as they fly by. And currently the massive flocks of geese, Canadian, snow, specks lightning from a field or flying overhead as they migrate the Pacific Flyway….

 

[Swamp Girl]

27 minutes ago, Kirtley Howe said:

The soft hiss of canoe gliding through the water.

 

Sometimes, I muster enough old muscle to raise my canoe's bow out of the water, as if a little outboard were pushing it and then there's an actual gurgle. 

 

2 minutes ago, J._Bricker said:

I like the initial sound my Mercury ProXS makes at ignition and the low grumbling tone that follows. The gurgle of a buzzbait or plopper producing a bubble trail across the stillness of the water as I anticipate a blowup as it approaches a piece of cover. The sound of braid singing through the guides of my rod at hook set announcing the fight is on! The popping sounds coming from under a mat telling me bluegills are feeding. A bullfrog croaking in the distance bringing back memories of frog gigging trips long ago. The calls of redwing and yellow headed blackbirds back in the tullies, a pheasant crowing on a levee or the whistle of swan wings as they fly by. And currently the massive flocks of geese, Canadian, snow, specks lightning from a field or flying overhead as they migrate the Pacific Flyway….

 

 

BR has some poets. 

[Drew03cmc]

The squeal of a well-worn buzzbait as it gurgles purposefully against a lay down in shallow water while I anticipate the slurp of a big fish has to be my favorite. 

 

I would put, as a close second, the swishy rattle of a walking bait as it saunters seductively downstream with the current offering an easy meal to a big, angry smallie.

[Bluebasser86]

Braid singing when I'm wrestling a big one out. 

Bass blowing up on baitfish. 

Silence

[Swamp Girl]

5 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Braid singing when I'm wrestling a big one out. 

Bass blowing up on baitfish. 

Silence

 

Sometimes I laugh at how noisy nature can be, especially when I launch in the dark or fish into the dark: owls hooting, herons screeching, beaver tails slapping, kingfishers chittering, geese wings beating the air, bass slurping, and on and on.

[galyonj]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

All the studies I looked at in college had 60+% gut contents of waterfowl for bald eagles. I’ve seen them catch live fish several times, but I have seen one eating a dead raccoon on the side of the road too 

 

Eagles are flying trash cans. They're basically turkey buzzards with better PR.

[Bluebasser86]

1 minute ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Sometimes I laugh at how noisy nature can be, especially when I launch in the dark or fish into the dark: owls hooting, herons screeching, beaver tails slapping, kingfishers chittering, geese wings beating the air, bass slurping, and on and on.

It sure can be, but I've been out a lot of moonless nights when there isn't a sound except the movement of the water. One of my favorite sounds when I'm out at night catfishing, next to the sound of my clicker going off when a big ugly has eaten the bait. 

[TnRiver46]

5 minutes ago, galyonj said:

 

Eagles are flying trash cans. They're basically turkey buzzards with better PR.

They are wearing avian tuxedos 

[king fisher]

No. 1  The sound of a screaming drag.

 

No. 2  The sound my phone makes when I turn it off.

[MIbassyaker]

The sound of the only other craft on the water going back to the launch.

[galyonj]

The authoritative crack of a 2oz egg sinker punching through the cowling on a jetski.

[WRB]

Being a waterfowl hunter for decades the sound of a flock of Canadian geese approaching in flight, ducks at the crack of dawn. Also like watch birds of prey in flight talking to each other, more of cry then a chirp. Ospreys you don’t hear until they grab a swim bait out of the air, then you hear me swearing.

Wildlife in general around or in the water, bull frogs low rumble, tree frog chirping it’s all soothing.

Always listening for feeding fish splashes. Our bass lakes are from remote but still we hear wildlife, especially at night.

We don’t have wolves but do have noisy coyotes barking, howling, occasional mountain lion culling bone chilling cry, bears generally don’t travel quietly, Owls etc.

The loon cry is a distant memory now.

Love the sound of stream running water in remote back woods camping out, very peaceful.

Tom

[Swamp Girl]

34 minutes ago, WRB said:

Being a waterfowl hunter for decades the sound of a flock of Canadian geese approaching in flight, ducks at the crack of dawn. Also like watch birds of prey in flight talking to each other, more of cry then a chirp. Ospreys you don’t hear until they grab a swim bait out of the air, then you hear me swearing.

Wildlife in general around or in the water, bull frogs low rumble, tree frog chirping it’s all soothing.

Always listening for feeding fish splashes. Our bass lakes are from remote but still we hear wildlife, especially at night.

We don’t have wolves but do have noisy coyotes barking, howling, occasional mountain lion culling bone chilling cry, bears generally don’t travel quietly, Owls etc.

The loon cry is a distant memory now.

Love the sound of stream running water in remote back woods camping out, very peaceful.

Tom

 

Tom, I never forget that you love the northwoods as much as me.

 

 

I've never heard a mountain lion, but I wanna!

 

50 minutes ago, galyonj said:

The authoritative crack of a 2oz egg sinker punching through the cowling on a jetski.

 

Oh, will that drag scream!