while still a student at belmont university in nashville, tennessee in the early 1990s, brad paisley had been asked to participate in a student concert. having primarily sung ballads at that point in his career, he decided to add a novelty song to his repertoire. frank rogers, a fellow student who would eventually become paisley's record producer, agreed, suggesting that they should "write something that will make them laugh", and the two then began to write the song. their collaboration resulted in "i'm gonna miss her (the fishin' song)", a moderate up-tempo, centralizing on a male character whose lover has threatened to leave him if he goes fishing instead of staying home with her. having chosen to go fishing instead, the character then states that he will "miss her when [he gets] home".