Radio for Boat

[osur914]

I was thinking about getting a radio to install in my boat. does anyone know if it affects your fishing? Does it scare fish to hear a radio? Just wondering.

 

[Expidia]

Re: Radio for Boat

I was thinking about getting a radio to install in my boat. does anyone know if it affects your fishing? Does it scare fish to hear a radio? Just wondering.

Absolutely, fish hate rap music and country music . . . Just a known fact among the pro's

Oh ya, also "any" song by Barbara Streisand . . . Fish hate her too, along with her Moron husband

 

[FLATHEAD]

Re: Radio for Boat

I play mine once in a while and have not had a problem, but then I dont blast the heck out of it either.

 

[ddennis]

Re: Radio for Boat

I dont know what scares them off more, the radio or my singing to the radio!

 

[sbulla]

Re: Radio for Boat

I was thinking about getting a radio to install in my boat. does anyone know if it affects your fishing? Does it scare fish to hear a radio? Just wondering.

Just be aware that sound travels REALLY well over water. Watch your volume if there are any other fishermen within sight....they may be armed! ;-)

Sonny

 

[1730V]

Re: Radio for Boat

Sound not only travels well over water, it also travels really well through water. Speakers mounted in the boat are going to transfer that sound much more readily than say a portable radio would.

I've had boats with radios and without. Frankly, if I want to fish and listen to the radio I use a Walkman or music through an iPod.

 

[drewmitch44]

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Yea i always wondered that myself. One time on my aluminum i had a small radio sitting on the middle aluminum seat and i didnt catch a damn thing for about 3 hours. I turned it off and i started catching. From then on i had a old pillow under my front deck and i used that under the radio if i wanted to hear the race or something. Dont turn it up loud at all. And dont have any boat mounted speakers, especially if your fishing calm shallow water.