I'm actually surprised that so many bass boat guys around me play music. I love music, but I have never turned the radio on in a boat.

having said that; an audiobook playing quietly within earshot is kinda my thing now. I'm casting and doing my thing. the phone in my PFD is reading a great book to me. I used to play it louder so I could hear it, but now I just hang the mic up in the open PFD pocket and play it only for my ears.

wake boats dont play music..they have concerts..hahah..

I most often go with silence. Sometimes some music. But I do like the audio book call. Gonna give that a try.

No music... Just nature and talking to myself...

Whether it's shore or boat I always have some music in the background...low enough that nature sounds still come through, but loud enough to hear it clearly.

I just listen to nature and the voices in my head telling me I should be fishing over there. 😁

I have plenty going on in my head. I don’t even use the radio in the truck.

I always am listening to something by the end of the day. If I get out at daylight, I don't allow myself to listen to anything till 9 AM. Listening to some entertaining podcasts once I start getting a little bored will make the day much more enjoyable. Sports, politics, and entertainment podcasts are what I listen to. I'll listen to music when I am running the big motor.

No, nothing.

I get out on the water specifically to escape from everything.

While I emerse my mind, body & spirit totally into whatever that day brings.

If you're going to listen to ANYTHING ELSE please wear ear buds. Not doing so is IMO, blatantly selfish.

Sound carries a looooooong way over open water.

A-Jay

Whether fishing or (especially) hunting, I prefer the silence and solitude of nature. I love music as much as the next guy, but when I’m fishing, I’m in 100% concentration mode.

No,

1 minute ago, A-Jay said:

No, nothing.

I get out on the water specifically to escape from everything.

While I emerse my mind, body & spirit totally into whatever that day brings.

1 minute ago, BrianMDTX said:

Whether fishing or (especially) hunting, I prefer the silence and solitude of nature. I love music as much as the next guy, but when I’m fishing, I’m in 100% concentration mode.

1 hour ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I just listen to nature and the voices in my head telling me I should be fishing over there. 😁

These guys nailed it. I LOVE music and so does my wife. We go to concerts, we pay for Sirius XM and Spotify. I listen at work (when I'm in the office or shop) and we have smart speakers in every part of the house. When I am fishing, I am fishing. That's all. Everything else is left on shore. This is extremely rare for me. I have lots of hobbies, but fishing is something different and healthier. That being said, I don't mind boats passing me with music on. I'd prefer you not fish the same cove as me with your music up, but you do you and enjoy. Just don't interrupt me being me please. And @Tennessee Boy 's voice is always in my head second guessing me also.

To be honest, I don’t even eat while fishing. I do drink water, but that’s about it. Time chewin’ is wasted time fishin’! 🤣

It depends. I have a Sirius stereo on the boat, but I usually don't have it on - especially when the wildlife is awake and making its own music.

That said, every now and then I like to kick it down a notch and play something quietly in the background. Fishing doesn't always have to be full throttle.

Most I’ll ever listen to is a baseball game on very rare occasions, only when fishing in an urban environment. I’d rather hear baseball than sirens and screaming children and leaf blowers.

23 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

To be honest, I don’t even eat while fishing. I do drink water, but that’s about it. Time chewin’ is wasted time fishin’! 🤣

Please eat.

It does a body good.

Just chew with your mouth closed.

😁

A-Jay

3 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Please eat.

It does a body good.

Fresh fruit is my gig when fishing..

I took the stereo out of my boat . Now I sing , or talk my buddies’ ears off. Winning.

1 hour ago, Jig Man said:

I have plenty going on in my head. I don’t even use the radio in the truck.

This exactly. My personal truck or my service truck at work never get the radio turned on lol

28 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Please eat.

It does a body good.

Just chew with your mouth closed.

😁

A-Jay

Can you come tell my 10 year old this? She certainly doesn’t listen when me and mom tell her a million times lol

Music is the last thing I want to hear in the boat

Usually some music in the background, no ear buds. I have a smaller boat and need to be able to hear larger vessels near by that have a potential to swamp me.

7 minutes ago, LonnieP said:

Music is the last thing I want to hear in the boat

I get it. A lot of fishermen are like that. Stay off Florida lakes on the weekend if you don't like loud music in boats because Florida lakes are a rocking! Mine included. Ran into it yesterday on Santa Fe lake near Keystone Heights Florida. Everything from rap to country and then my Southern rock on top of that.

I fish for fun so I'm not worried about scaring any fish. Its not THAT loud. Well maybe sometimes.

I think the Florida bass can hear me coming, but they still seem to bite ok. I'm not worried if I don't catch them all. That's not what its all about. Catching is not the end all goal. Living life is the goal. If I made fishing all about catching it would lose its charm real fast and become work.

When fishing is work. I'm done. So to enjoy bass fishing even more on Florida lakes to drown out everyone else's noise, I'm turning the bite on with some Skynyrd and Allman Brothers band. Play some Skynyrd and the fish give up and jump in the boat.

I'm a retired old school soundman. I started in late 1970's mixing sound for local Southern rock bands and eventually made a career out of electronics and sound mixing for concerts. So I kind of specialized in loud. Still do. I still work with guitarists on their gear.

I like it loud. What can I say? Loud driving down the highway. Loud at home. Loud in the clubs and shows, and loud in the boat too. Who says we gotta be quiet and sssssshhhhh don't scare the fish!

And with days like yesterday with a lake filled with rap and country rap with a c in front of that, I have to be louder than they are so I can hear my music while fishing. (Sounds good anyway)

I go silent sometimes to, like yesterday I started off playing some music but turned it off so we could just concentrate on fishing. A father- son trip so he was more important, but when I am alone the house- er boat is a rocking! (Some)

I could not imagine trying to listen to an audio book while fishing. My brain can't be in two places at once- and when fishing, its fishing brain time. The audio books would go in one ear and out the other and not touch anything on the way through. I could listen to any entire chapter and have no clue what it is about because my brain was elsewhere by choice. So music works best for me because I don't have to think about it. I just get to tap along to it automatically while swinging away. Don't get much better than that. And if the next boat over don't like it, oh well! Maybe a little more space between boats would work?

No music in the boat. I sing and the beautiful vibrations traveling down my fishing line calls big fish.😁 I sing to my cows, on the tractors, on the mower, I'm certainly gonna sing on the boat.

Ain't no way I'm gonna listen to music and possibly scare the fish away.

I take this chit way too serious.

I'm 3/4 crazy so I mostly just talk to myself out loud. That or talk to the fish and animals.

2 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Just chew with your mouth closed.

😁

No chumming allowed!!!

Similar to others I really enjoy music (LIVE /concert is best to me) -- but while on the water I cherish the sounds of nature -- unfortunately in the summer the Wakeboats/Pontoons like to share their music with everyone within 50 miles of their boat, worse yet is when they try to out volume each other -- When that is the case I will either vacate the area/choose another lake or put earbuds in with white noise playing in them to try and drown out/lessen the racket or just smile and play my own music in my head -- the waters are public and so far there are no laws/rules to limit their volume -- I will not get dragged in to being the "Get off my lawn" guy or let them steal my joy of being on the water -- I will simply use my options of leaving/moving/drowning them out