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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | how many of you listen to music when fishing? do u use a mp3 player and headphones or a boat radio? |
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Location: sw pa | i dont for the fact if my partner gets a fish, i want to be ontop of things like netting it! if i lost the fish for him he wld be pissed. i thought about it thou. |
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| Not me, I'm out there to dig the surroundings and get away from all media and all humans. |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Well, I have found that the 50"+ fat chicks on Green Bay seem to especially enjoy Peter Gabriel, for some reason. They seem to be more active when he's on the radio.
Don't believe me? Just ask PointerPride--he was there!
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| I listen when alone, just to keep me on my toes. Keeps me less distracted, keeps me out longer. Kinda ends up making me use my baits a little more erraticly cranking/ pausing with the beat. Works well with rubber, slightly changes your retrieve every 3-6 min!!!!!!
I don't thiink the fish care about the music, my largest last year I was bumping the radio, in a aluminum boat. I gaurentee theres more vibes reaching the water in a tin vs glass boat.
If I fished quieter waters I may think differently, but with the amount of fishing/boat traffic here, The fish would starve if they didn't eat when they heard something funny.
Mp3 sometimes, backyard radio others.
However where your at.................I would place the radio on something to try to minimize vibration. Towel, jacket, something.
MIA Paper Planes was playing during some of my better action last year!!!!!
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| I have Sirrius on my boat system on most of the time... usually on Hair Nation or maybe some country....the fish don't care one bit...I've had plenty of big fish eat on figure 8s with the tunes rockin...now the lakes I fish are not exactly quiet remote canadian lakes where I could see that spooking them...
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| We have Sirius sat radio in our boat. Channel 46 ("Top Tracks" I think... classic rock) most of the time or Channel 54 (Lucy... alternative rock). When things are really tough we throw on one of the comedy channels. Also listen to a lot of baseball games when in season.
I shut it off around prime time/dusk or at dawn. |
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Location: Almond, WI | I never have listened to music while fishing musky but I've fished with football or baseball games on, didn't make a difference either way. Personally I think it detracts from the experience, plus musical tastes differ pretty often and it can be hard to find a compromise. |
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | i thought most guys would say no cause they dont want to spook the fish. but like bomber said we fish lakes with alot traffic and noise so it dont bother them. we useully have jjo(hard rock) on and not very loud. but when a good song is on we turn it up and fish harder and rock out. a good song can give you energy to keep focused. if it gets tough i put on country, jeff hates it but i think the fish like. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Twitchin' to the beat----hmmm...I like that concept...may have to try it out this season... |
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Location: Antioch, IL | Most of the time I enjoy the sounds of nature and conversation with the guy in back, but I will play some tunes every once in a while. I don't think the fish care about music in the boat, at a normal volume, wether the lake gets heavy boat traffic or not. Bill Sandy always has music in the boat. Litterally never turns it off. 3:00am and you can hear his boat rockin' out at the dock. He manages to put one or two fish in the boat every year  |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Pimped JL into the rig last year, so its tunes most days at least during certain times. I still prefer to fish without most of the time, but we have tunes on 40%, and jam 10-20% of the time(wide open when trolling GB). Some of our most productive days come while rockin to Alice Cooper, Savatage, Fugazi, or a little Waylon... Love the Sirius too, as I can listen to Wayne and Larry call the game while in MN. Don't have an ipod yet, but see my stereo is 'ready'. Any suggestions on a starter ipod or mp3 player?
Edited by Reef Hawg 4/21/2009 1:25 PM
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Location: Illinois | 8GB Ipod Nano is a good MP3 player....
Sometimes we jam the satellite radio, usually Octane (formerly Squizz), and I occasionally use my Ipod shuffle (slightly larger than a quarter) when I want to "get jiggy with it" and only use one earbud so I'm able to hear "GET THE NET"!
Something that hasn't been brought up yet- listening to music somehow improves my fishing concentration. It's funny it inspires me- like my own movie soundtrack or something! |
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Location: Madison WI | I am starting to pack my ipod with songs for this season, I agree with you Muskellunged that it definetly makes me concentrate more and it makes me fish harder and longer, now if only Apple could make an ipod with a battery life longer then 8 hours because it sure sucks no being able to listen to it when I fish those 15+ hour days. |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | I don't usually - but when I used to troll with my old boat, Pink Floyd and Van Morrison seemed to get the fish goin'.
A couple seasons ago, I was fishing with Hoppe on Mille Lacs and he turned on Playboy Radio on Sirius. It was difficult to concentrate to say the least - I can't really say what the topic of the radio show was, but lets just say it gave me a new Idea for a rod blank!
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Location: In a shack in the woods | i listen to pandora on my iphone alot. its the same that is on the internet but on a phone. mostly rap of some sort or grateful dead or bob dylan |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Music? On the water? While I'm fishing??
If I have anything playing at all, which these days is rare even in the truck, it's Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Hendrix, a bit of Rush, or the like.
The only 'Rap' in my rig is what happens to a Pike I'm going to eat that night. Right on the noggin. |
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| Due to motor issues I've mostly been fishing as a non-boater, so I haven't been listening to music as much. In my own boat I bring a small boom box and listen to Kings Of Leon, Fleet Foxes, The Whigs, The Black Keys, Son Volt, Soundgarden, Fugazi, Social Distortion, Black Stone Cherry, and some country. I've caught many species of fish while listening to music, and I don't feel it has any effect on the outcome of my day on the water. Of course I'm not blaring it either. |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Pantera or Metalica or similar is the music of choice while muskie fishing. Radio or CD is always on in the boat or ice shack. |
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| caught a musky while listening to The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations", might be something to that!
no joke |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Golden oldies about 50% of the time and nothing the rest of the time but birds chirpin. Dead, Zeppelin, Stones, Johnny Cash, some Willie, etc. Hate the radio though. I don't think the fish like all of the commercials!
Edited by Tackle Industries 4/22/2009 9:11 AM
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| No way there's going to be a radio or a CD player going in my boat unless you're listening to it with head phones on. To each his own, but if fishing and the outdoors are boring enough to you that you have to have music playing in the boat, then you're not the right kind of partner for me to be on the water with. |
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| Amen to that Hawkeye, I like where your head is at. But.....sometimes after fishing from sunrise to noon w/out the sight of a fish, it might be enough to keep a guy from throwing in the towel. If there was music in my boat it would have to be Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Fleetwood Mac, that sorta thing. I heard muskies cant stand rap, and go wind weeds aroung there ears when they hear it!!! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Cast is apparently a Hendrix Fan. The man could REALLY play a guitar. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | No reason to get excited... |
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| But if we're just sitting around the cabin or at the bar at the end of the day drinking a few beers, Sworrall's CD collection will work just fine for me, too.  Jimi was the man (or Jimmy...) |
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| No music in the boat for me - don't have a radio in the boat and dont want one - but in the truck "Hair Nation" for sure! |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Hey, for you guys who have satellite radio...How difficult/easy is the installation? I'm thinking about getting one... |
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| Oh move over Rover... |
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Location: Birch Run | I know big walleyes like biohazard, killswitch engage and muskies like hatebreed. Keeps people away also. lol |
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| yeah just about any music on the water will keep me away. Last fall on Cave Run, early AM with mist on the water, not another boat or human in site, beautiful. Just about ten minutes after I settle into a nice shoreline to cast here comes a boat cruising slowly into the bay, they go in deeper to the bay than I am, towards the back. They wave and ask how I'm doing as they putt by, and I see by their gear they're bass fishing. I tell them not much, just got here. They settle in about 100-150 yds away from me and then all of a sudden they hit the music and BAM, beautiful morning ruined, beautiful spot ruined, that is unless I want to listen to Kid Rock at 6:25AM. Nice. Music is fine and I think everyone deserves the right to listen to what they want when they want, but how about a little courtesy? Sound really travels across still water boys. I'm sure they thought that they were doing me a favor by laying their awesome musical taste on me. I honestly don't understand the need to listen to music while fishing since I, like most other humans in America, am bombarded on a minute by minute basis in my life by images and sounds from ads, music, television, etc. In this day and age, a person has to really try if they want to get away from all of this. It's tough to escape. For me, it's mighty nice to get out there and just "be in it" without influence from man-made society. Maybe I'm weird. Maybe there's no maybe to it....
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | let jimi take over... |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Rush...Tool...Metallica....Muskies...That makes for a great day. |
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| I think we've gut us any thread going here that could be rightfully placed in the "funny" section of the forum!
The music I like to hear in my boat is the sound of my drag burning up and big hooks rattling! (A Loon call in the background makes for cool accompaniment.) |
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| Every self respecting muskie angler listens to Niel Young's "Cowgirls in the Sand" |
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