Our friend and fellow forum member @ol'crickety, who's written several great articles for BassResource, took it to a new level by teaming up with @Blue Raider Bob to create a great article about how the noise factor can affect your fishing success!

 

https://www.bassresource.com/fishing/noise.html

 

Enjoy!!

Shhhhhhh!

3 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

Shhhhhhh!

 

I am very guilty of playing music. I enjoy it while I am on the boat. If it costs me some fish we that’s my fault. 
 

the wading thing is very near. There is a creek we nicknamed musky heaven. No more than waste deep. I’d wade it in the summer and could sneak up on musky. Also like described musky and suckers would school around me when I was not moving. 

I'm Chinese.  I am naturally loud.

To be frank, Bob didn't willingly team up with me. I told him to co-author or else and I'd attach photos like this with the caption, "This is the 'or else!'":

 

 

For those who aren't aware, Bob built a beautiful bass and bluegill pond, which has been attacked by muskrats. So, threaten him with more muskrats and he'll do your bidding. 

Great article and two of my favorite contributors to the site!  

 

 

                                                                 

Let me put my hearing aids in first.

And that's why I just love it when these guys running tight circles around me ~

A-Jay

 

Lake lice are rampant in our local SoCal lakes, jet ski, wake boats with boom boxes and a few hundred 200+hp boats running around producing lots of white noise.

Now the weather is changing, the lake lice are thinning out add some rain and it’s quite time.

I grew up reading Jason Lucas who advocated being quite so that has been goal.

The reason I make long casts is to stay off the bass during day time and it’s out good over the years. Not stocking cat quite but trying not to alarm the bass.

Good article👍

Tom

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

And that's why I just love it when these guys running tight circles around me ~

A-Jay

 

I came within a couple feet of catching one of those with a DD22 once. I was fishing it on Gorilla Braid. Old school stuff that was about as smooth as concertina wire. Ol boy came really close to having a VERY bad day.

I cannot overstate the important role that stealth has played in my personal success!  Great article y'all!   

 Thank you @ol'crickety and @Blue Raider Bob.

I’ve go to a few places that I think will let me catch a double digit….. I feel it  like obi wan. I try to be so quiet, I even avoid noise I can’t hear, my sonar. I pull my trolling motor up and push pole in and just sit in the pads for a little while. I look and listen for any movement of the Lilly’s , watch for swirls , just listening. 
Quite relaxing actually.

Great article thanks again.

G

6 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

I cannot overstate the important role that stealth has played in my personal success!  

 Interesting, but stealth means nothing to me. The Tennessee River in particular is very noisy.

In addition to natural sights and sounds, we have commercial barge traffic and plenty of boat

traffic. Splash attracts fish!

 

@roadwarrior I think it totally depends on how big the body of water is and how clear the water is and how pressured the fish is and what the weather is like and what phase the moon is and whatever you're throwing and.....😉😉😉😉😉

No doubt. stealth is important in many or most situations, just not where I fish.

@Glenn I know what you mean, certain areas on St. John’s. I believe you could set off a depth charge and it wouldn’t affect fishing. we have boats, jet skis, airboats, and even an occasional plane doing touch and goes on the river. I still catch in those areas. 
 

11 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

Splash attracts fish!

I like to make a little splash when pitching around the Lillie’s pads or cattails. I feel it gets their attention makes them want to investigate. Most of my bites pitching have within a few seconds of the lure making contact with the water. 
In those areas I’m very quiet and use push poles to get there.

Well done you two!

On 11/18/2023 at 6:41 PM, roadwarrior said:

No doubt. stealth is important in many or most situations, just not where I fish.

The boats leaving the stadium were all coming down river yesterday and sloshing us around pretty good. Looked like Miami 😂, double decker yachts 🛥️ 

Guess I need to stop singing "highway to the danger zone" as I scoot into my spots?

1 hour ago, Functional said:

Guess I need to stop singing "highway to the danger zone" as I scoot into my spots?

Maybe you could just Hum it.

A-Jay

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

The boats leaving the stadium were all coming down river yesterday and sloshing us around pretty good. Looked like Miami 😂, double decker yachts 🛥️ 

 

Everybody on them boats was sloshed, too. Lot of sloshing going on.

My dad used to say you have to hold your mouth right to catch fish.....

 

One of the old school fly fishing books I read way back in the day talked about spooking fish and how they would walk to a pool in a small stream and just stand there and observe, quietly.  This served two purposes, one was to see what activity was going on and two, allow any spooked or non-spooked fish to see you as part of the environment now.  Of course that is harder to do than it is to say but it undoubtedly works for me on trout streams and when wade fishing smaller flows for brown bass.