Bad Music = Better Bass Fishing?
One of the things that I like best about fishing is the opportunity to enjoy silence. It’s why I fish by myself so often – after a week of phone calls and meetings and useless conversations I like to retreat into my own head, or completely blank out.
Historically I’ve also believed that fishing in silence produces better overall results. I recall the great Aaron Martens asking spectator boats to turn off their sonar units because he felt that put the bass on high alert.
Hanna doesn’t care about that. In the words of our generation, she wants her MTV – and she wants it now. She doesn’t believe that music hurts the bite. In the past, we reached a compromise when fishing together. I’d fish quietly and she’d put in her wireless earbuds and stream music from her phone. Occasionally she’d make a weird, spastic dance move or grunt out a lyric, but I could live with that. On our most recent trip to Lake El Salto, however, she brought a Bluetooth speaker. She and our guide outvoted me 2-to-1 and won the right to play their horrific “mix tapes.” Now that I’ve had time to consider the results, I may reconsider my position. Click on the video below to see why:
Lures that work in spite of bluetooth cacophony:
Zoom Swimmer (seems to be hard to find, so consider other hollow bellies)
