Is this where it’s headed

My coworker camped at Lower Velma in Deso and another party at the lake was blasting tunes all night. Such a bummer. I do t think Leave No Trace references noise any more.
 
Russell said:
Haven’t really looked at a fishing magazine in years, proved again why, but thumbed through a fairly recent copy of flyfisherman. This add is what surprised me. Am I going to have to be surrounded by f@$%#Ing drones and people blasting there music tastes. WTF
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Let’s hope not, but it wouldn’t surprise me that it happens somewhere, sometimes.
The American way would be to respond with countermeasures such as targeted signal-jamming technology.
 
I certainly hope not!

I love my metal, but when I'm fishing, camping, or doing anything else outdoors, I love the surrounding natural sounds far more!

Not taking into account how annoying it is to others in the area, a number of years ago, I was musky fishing and ran into a couple of other folks musky fishing, and they were wondering why they hadn't even seen a fish (we were fishing the same area)....anyway, they had their little bluetooth speaker going....I ended up getting two in the same area that day and saw quite a few others in the area.
 
Matt B said:
Let’s hope not, but it wouldn’t surprise me that it happens somewhere, sometimes.
The American way would be to respond with countermeasures such as targeted signal-jamming technology.
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Like a short overhead AR-15 burst? 🤣
 
I probably fall into the grumpy old man category, but I enjoy peace and quiet a lot more now that I’m older.
Walking a half mile to a beach at first light only to have a guy with a bongo drum show up isn’t my idea of serenity. There are some other things that get under my skin more now as well, but I’ll save those to myself rather than sharing them here and pissing of some people. 😂
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I've heard and read pro and con on these things both for fishing and hiking. I guess it's just attitudes.

Yeah, over sharing music others don't like, or were hoping to avoid pisses off people wanting the simple peace of being out in nature.

Some say it helps alert and keep bears and big cats away. Me? Save it for camp, not that I hike at all. Just raised to not upset the neighbors.

Same is true of fishing. Why does anyone want to hear your music from 1/2 mile away? On the other hand, some say it helps bring in the fish. Been on a charter out of Westport? How many of them have music going and you're catching lings, tuna, rockfish and salmon ?

Fish hear boats all the time. Watch a YouTube video of a dropped crab trap (Yes its a thing) and you can hear a lot of them going by. GoPros of trolling show fish attacking trolled lures with lots of noise from the wake and the boat. Yet, still catch fish. 🤔

Maybe some critters have preferences ...
 
I play my music loud and make sure it is full of expletives too. That way I can get the prime fishing spot all to myself.

/jk/
 
i was with my old army bud, camping on the deschutes in the 80's, and about 10-11 pm the camp across the river fires up - In the Gadda da Vida..... luckily, that one song was it for the night, and it didnt bother me .
 
wanderingrichard said:
I've heard and read pro and con on these things both for fishing and hiking. I guess it's just attitudes.

Yeah, over sharing music others don't like, or were hoping to avoid pisses off people wanting the simple peace of being out in nature.

Some say it helps alert and keep bears and big cats away. Me? Save it for camp, not that I hike at all. Just raised to not upset the neighbors.

Same is true of fishing. Why does anyone want to hear your music from 1/2 mile away? On the other hand, some say it helps bring in the fish. Been on a charter out of Westport? How many of them have music going and you're catching lings, tuna, rockfish and salmon ?

Fish hear boats all the time. Watch a YouTube video of a dropped crab trap (Yes its a thing) and you can hear a lot of them going by. GoPros of trolling show fish attacking trolled lures with lots of noise from the wake and the boat. Yet, still catch fish. 🤔

Maybe some critters have preferences ...
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I would swear that the stocked trout in my local lake have a thing for latin beat music. I've had multiple outings there in the kayak where I've been getting skunked - a varied modern pop playlist playing discreetly on my neck speaker - and every time a Camila Cabello song comes on, I get multiple bites. This has happened often enough to be a pattern. Odd.
🎶Havana, Oo-na-na!

Note: My speaker is very quiet & near my ears but not blocking them; you can't hear it more than a few feet away. Maybe it's conducted thru the hull?
 
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I hate music on a lake. There are so many truly rude, self indulgent people. At one lake, they set up chairs at the launch and made sure the whole area could hear their play list. I left.
A lake shore or a boat has no place on fishing water.
We have a long time family property on Mason Lake, outside of Shelton. A lot of skiing, tubing type things, and there is music, which is fine by me. I don’t fish there anymore, way to busy with those boat wakes.
There are others waters in the area to fish.
 
One of my favorite local lakes has a typical small public area/boat launch. Like most western Washington lakes, there is a house right next to the launch and houses right across from the launch. About 2 out of 5 times there will be someone at the launch, usually soaking worms (which is pretty effective) and blasting either a BT speaker or even their car speakers.

I can hear it all the way at the other end of the lake. I can't imagine how the home owners feel. I get enjoying it at a low volume, especially on a power boat lake, during the mid-day, but on a small no-motor neighborhood lake like that it's completely rude.

My buddy loves to ask people their home address. 😁 They look at him like he's a psycho killer. Then he says "I hear it's a great place to crank the tunes." :ROFLMAO:
 
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