What are your favorite fishing sounds on the water?

 

Mine is when a heavy bass comes up and sloshes water. It's at a lower pitch and it's thrilling, for only heavy bass can make that sound. 

 

I also love owls. 

The call of a Loon echoing across the water.

Bass hitting a top water bait. Used to be the sound of a bull gator during mating season.

Bald eagle chirping ? 

The sound of a buzzbait, early in the morning, on smooth water.

Although I don’t hear them anymore I’m with Mn Fisher and hearing loons. When we used to go to Minnesota for our summer vacation I loved hearing them and even hearing their call at the end of the TV show “Lund The Ultimate Fishing Experience” brings fond memories back.

1 minute ago, Eric 26 said:

Although I don’t hear them anymore I’m with Mn Fisher and hearing loons. When we used to go to Minnesota for our summer vacation I loved hearing them and even hearing their call at the end of the TV show “Lund The Ultimate Fishing Experience” brings fond memories back.

 

Loon song is both the most lonesome and lovely sound in the world. 

My favorite fishing sound is the hollering I make when I land a giant! 

Spinning reel drag.

 

I don't like hearing bass slosh around. That's always stressful. The better sound is the clicking, rattling, or jingling of them shaking while you have them out of the water and lipped before you take the hook or lure out.

Love most all of the "natural sounds" associated with my fishing

including the assortment of birds, the howl of 'the wind' and my paddle coming in & out of the water as the Old Town canoe glides across some little body of water

that seems like it's in the middle of no where.

Perhaps topping the list is actually No Sound.

It's the intense pregnant pause  while waiting the few seconds

for my fish scale to tell me what my eyes already know. 

https://youtu.be/o9xew3tWuuU?feature=shared&t=1124

Fish Hard

A-Jay

btw, honorable mention could go to ProXS.

https://youtu.be/T7LO6RQA7yY?feature=shared

 

Skunk apes crashing through the underbrush while they hunt.

9 minutes ago, galyonj said:

Skunk apes crashing through the underbrush while they hunt.

Apparently that particular area of TN has some wildlife that I am not familiar with . . . 

A-Jay

Tennesee's at the far northern end of their range, yeah.

7 minutes ago, galyonj said:

Tennesee's at the far northern end of their range, yeah.

A-Jay

43 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Bald eagle chirping ? 

 

Southern bald eagles are a different species than ours, I'm guessing.

 

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

I'm with @MN Fisher on this one.  Its hard to beat a loon echo across the water.

 

Just the other day I heard "stomping" on shore and saw this guy walking off...

4 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Just the other day I heard "stomping" on shore and saw this guy walking off...

I've seen him occasionally...seems a bit shy to me.

The gurgly squeel of a buzzbait being interrupted by the sloshing slurp of a large bass.

 

The silence of a perfectly placed jig next to a laydown that you just know is gonna get bit.

 

The *screeee* of a hookset on a sizeable fish

 

The rattle trap *stops rattling mid retrieve* ????

 

A large bass exploding on a walking topwater never gets old.

 

Bluegill popping in shallow water.

 

Shad schools creating that gentle flickering sound right on the surface in the late summer.

 

All the birds and insects and reptiles and amphibians filling the air with their song.

 

Wind moving the leaves.  Water gently slapping into the rocks. 

 

This stuff comforts me.  I love bass fishing. 

i like the quiet. is that a sound?

16 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Southern bald eagles are a different species than ours, I'm guessing.

 

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

Some of them fly from here to there

 

i saw 3 while driving my work route Friday and another this morning. 
 

I’ve never seen one when I wasn’t in complete awe 

Hollywood always plays a red tail hawk scream when they show an eagle but here’s what it actually sounds like. When I hear that, I know I’m in a good spot to kill and eat some fish 

23 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

The gurgly squeel of a buzzbait being interrupted by the sloshing slurp of a large bass.

 

The silence of a perfectly placed jig next to a laydown that you just know is gonna get bit.

 

The *screeee* of a hookset on a sizeable fish

 

The rattle trap *stops rattling mid retrieve* ????

 

A large bass exploding on a walking topwater never gets old.

 

Bluegill popping in shallow water.

 

Shad schools creating that gentle flickering sound right on the surface in the late summer.

 

All the birds and insects and reptiles and amphibians filling the air with their song.

 

Wind moving the leaves.  Water gently slapping into the rocks. 

 

This stuff comforts me.  I love bass fishing. 

 

I love this post, but I'm out of reactions.

 

Pat, when I musky fished, I spent a week with burly men and many had lived demanding lives. There were two bouncers, a fighter pilot, a race car driver, a college football player, etc. However, these hardened men with callused hands were like you, i.e. they noted and loved all the bits that comprised a day of musky fishing. I think the more we note, the better we are at fishing. Good fishing requires good witnessing and a fisher who pays attention and can share what they've seen reminds me of samurai who were both warriors and poets. 

10 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Hollywood always plays a red tail hawk scream when they show an eagle but here’s what it actually sounds like. When I hear that, I know I’m in a good spot to kill and eat some fish 

 

I saw a bald eagle (or an osprey: I can't say for it was far away), dive and kill a bass yesterday. I was thrilled. I hadn't seen that since June. They hit the water with such force. In June, I parked under a dead tree and watched an eagle eat its bass. 

 

Thanks for the video. It's wicked cool!

Merc 250 ProXS 2 stroke

 

Commode flush! The sound a hawg makes sucking down a buzzbait 

 

Gibb's slap! What you get for not setting hook!

 

Crickets and frogs at night, during the day all I can hear is jet skis and techno music. 

It's hard to beat the sound my taut line makes as it cuts through the water during the run from a good fish.

The sound of my buzzbait having a cinder block dropped on it on a pitch black night.