# Fishing Songs! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172 "2009-05-30T16:16:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/1 "2009-05-30T16:16:52Z")
So what are some fishing songs? [I found a top 10 list online](http://newsok.com/top-10-fishing-songs/article/3272143/?tm=1216525539) and I have a few more to add as well. Mainly, Brad Paisley has a song called [I’m Still A Guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQ7ajWwFPI) which include “With deep spray-on tans and creamy lotiony hands you can’t grip a tackle box.” ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/2 "2009-05-30T16:39:30Z")
Da Fishing Trip - Da Yoopers Ice Fishing 101 - Jello Biafra That top ten list’s pick of Five Pound Bass for #1 is a good one. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/3 "2009-05-30T16:46:09Z")
Technically this doesn’t count, since whales aren’t fish; but I recall from reading _Moby Dick_ that many people held that they are. [Greenland Whale Fisheries](http://www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyrics/LPs/RedRoses/Greenland.html) ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/4 "2009-05-30T16:59:08Z")
**Primus** has a couple of fishing songs, including **Fish on** , **John the Fisherman** and **The Old Diamondback Sturgeon**. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/5 "2009-05-30T18:01:16Z")
“Big Fish, Little Fish,” from _Purlie._ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/6 "2009-05-31T01:04:03Z")
Glad to see they included “Fishin’ Blues.” Great song. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/7 "2009-05-31T01:09:38Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#): > > **Primus** , **Fish on**. Yes, this is what I came to say. Best fishing song ever, hands down. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/8 "2009-05-31T01:12:47Z")
I’d say ‘Sushi Girl’ by The Tubes. Granted it isn’t a song about fishing, but they did perform it on ‘The Fishin’ Musician’ on SCTV… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/9 "2009-05-31T01:15:06Z")
I know it never actually mentions fishing, but I always associate Otis Redding’s “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” as a fishing song–what else do you do on a dock all day? The “wasting time” and whistling seal the deal. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/10 "2009-05-31T01:31:41Z")
[Black Bass](http://www.rhapsody.com/shonen-knife/lets-knife/black-bass/lyrics.html), by Shonen Knife. Sample lyrics: _Someone brought the Black Bass, To this lake from far away, Changing the biological, Distribution of the lake._ Genius! ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/11 "2009-05-31T01:41:38Z")
If you aren’t too concerned with what they’re fishing for, there’s Watching The Detectives - Elvis Costello ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/12 "2009-05-31T01:49:59Z")
“Fishing in the Morning” by Dar Williams ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/13 "2009-05-31T02:38:29Z")
Nitty Gritty Dort Band- Fishin’ In the Dark. One of my all time favorite songs. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/14 "2009-05-31T02:58:58Z")
**Squeeze** - [_Pulling Mussels from the Shell_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuJ1AefhWzE&feature=related) Perhaps, only technically a fishing song from the superficial. However, if you assume the [lyrics](http://www.lyricsdownload.com/squeeze-pulling-mussels-from-the-shell-lyrics.html)– it is meta-fisherman, especially if you are from Florida. Very Nautical. I assume he probably wrote this on a holiday in the South of France and the Med… maybe Spain? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/15 "2009-05-31T03:19:50Z")
My choice would be [Fisherman’s Blues](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VKouBHarIo) by the Waterboys. And I can’t believe they attributed Catfish John to Alison Krauss. [Jerry Garcia](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n81doCdMzwE) and Old and in the Way were playing that when she was 2 years old (she was 7 when the one in the link was recorded). ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/16 "2009-05-31T03:36:40Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > Nitty Gritty Dort Band- Fishin’ In the Dark. One of my all time favorite songs. That’s the one I thought of first. It’s not my favorite and I never knew who the artist was but, over the years, I’ve noticed that all men in Wisconsin seem to know all the lyrics to this song. A very popular male sing-along in bars here. My pick is a song I heard a local combo play called “Bob Away My Blues”. I’m not sure who the original artist is. \*I’m goin’ down to the river, got a cane pole in my hand I got some red worms in a Maxwell House coffee can I’m gonna sit under a shade tree on a river bank where it’s cool I’m gonna close my eyes and dream, let the cork bob away my blues. \* ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/17 "2009-05-31T04:06:56Z")
“Boudreau Was a Nutcase” by the Austin Lounge Lizards. It kinda retells the Moby-Dick story in Cajun terms, with a lone fisherman and a giant catfish. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/18 "2009-05-31T08:17:28Z")
Does [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfTvFzg_Ac8) count? ---
**Author:** ![RedRosesForMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RedRosesForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedRosesForMe)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/19 "2009-05-31T09:08:24Z")
Damn you, **Johnny L.A.**! ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172/20 "2009-05-31T12:50:14Z")
There at least of couple in the Guys on Ice musical: [http://www.amazon.com/GUYS-ICE-Original-Cast-Recording/dp/B0006L5P1M](http://www.amazon.com/GUYS-ICE-Original-Cast-Recording/dp/B0006L5P1M) Brian [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishing-songs/498172.md?page=2)