Talking About Adventure In Small Boats
Bermudaboy
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Trying to figure out exactly what we heard... found these two links, not sure if Toadfish or Drum, recordings in the following.. I think sounded a lot like the first recording of Toadfish, but fish had to be much larger.. Anyone else ever experience
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Karank
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I think that most "fish" and other undersea creatures make sound. If you think about it, water is such a great conveyor of sound it is hard "n o t" to make sounds. The key of course is that we are not equiped to hear underwater sounds. Many fish make sounds when you remove them from the water but they are realy making the sounds they make in the water but we are not equiped to hear until they are out of the water. When I was a kid I got a big galv. tin horn and put a platic cover on the big end and put the mouthpiece to my ear. I heard all kinds of sounds. You can hear big (30 lb) red and black drum through the boat hull when they are feeding which is most of the time. The sound is the grinding device they use to crush the shell fish they dig out of hte bottom to get to the flesh. That is all I know... but I want to know more?
Bermudaboy
Member
Karank:
We were standing less than knee deep water, when we heard the sound (Heads/Ears above water) when fish was still about 20' away, and swam right in front of us, all the while emitting this fog horn like errie sound at intervals Also felt vibration in my chest....
Karank
Member
Wow! What were you drinking? joke! That is like nothing I have seen or heard of.. and I grew up on shallow warm salt water in S. Texas. I have seen things that I don't often talk about because they are hard to accept but are absoutely true. Sounds like you have one.... I would like to know more if you can fill in with even unimportant info. Time of day/night, wake produced, water clarity, mangrove, tide, kind of bottom.... anything.
Bermudaboy
Member
Sounded like the first recording link above of toad fish, but the silhouette, wake it was making on surface looked too big for that... Was just after sunset... not much more I can remember, been searching the net for information or similar experiences but not much out there... Here is what I wrote it down when memory was fresher. Hope SDR add his details to this story...recounting..
"We’re standing at the water’s edge, watching the last seconds of a breathtaking sunset, and hear some light splashing a few feet away, a small four foot or so shark is cruising up the shallows towards us and his dorsal and tail are sticking high out of the water. We’re still excitedly talking about how cool that was when in from the opposite direction we started hearing what sounds like a muffled fog horn approaching. The next moment we’re seeing the up-flow billowing telltale rippling of a giant slow moving fish coming our way. It swims right in front of us making a mysterious fog horn noise which resonates in our chest with deep vibrations. It is really big and I guess from its size and silhouette, a giant jewfish, but Sean’s insisting that it’s a big drum,,,."
Bermudaboy
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Workin real hard over here in the "Pan", can't pry me from the water.. After learing this last evening , I'm bringin a salt shaker on all future WTevents.
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Bermudaboy
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OneWayFish
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BB,
Sounds (ha!) to me a lot like a drum. I've heard both black and red drum while fishing for them and the sound is not too far off from the oyster toadfish recording you link to. You're spot-on to say that you can feel it. I've heard/felt black drum who were feeding on the bottom in 20' of water while I was in a 20' fiberglass fishing boat. They're really intense and the experience stuck with me.
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