Easier To Accept Getting Skunked In The Summer (Opinion Based)

[K_Mac]

Senile1 pretty much sums up my experience. Most of us tend to fish the same spots with the same baits year round. In the summer deeper, and faster or slower is usually my approach. It's counterintuitive, but shallow heavy cover in the heat of the day sometimes works well. Finding the right location is always key. Hang in there. There is satisfaction in finding fish when most others have gone home.

[DogBone_384]

Getting skunked during Summer isn't bad, for me, anyway.  I've only gotten back into fishing in the last couple years so it's still a relearning process. Besides, working two jobs and family responsibilities makes me appreciate the time I get to fish, regardless of what I catch.

[Felix77]

Getting skunked is tough no matter what season it is.  To me it's all about perspective.  I would rather be skunked fishing than working at my desk or dealing with something worse.

[bradc36]

I don't enjoy getting skunked, but it happens more often than I'd like over the summer months when I'm hitting the water for an hour or two after work, usually to try out a new product, or get ready for a tournament. It doesn't really bother me too much until it it happens in an 8 hour day, then it's a completely different story.

[FrogFreak]

What I don't like about getting skunked is when I start thinking about why I got skunked and I realize I was in a rut on the water and didn't change. I have a bad habit of staying with the same technique for too long. I will throw top water too long after that bite is done for example. it was happening a couple weekends ago when I said out loud, come on you know what you need to do to catch em. I switched over to a t-rigged plastic, threw it in some deep lily pockets and started hammering them. 

[DogBone_384]

Getting skunked is tough no matter what season it is.  To me it's all about perspective.  I would rather be skunked fishing than working at my desk or dealing with something worse.

 

Can you work via kayak?

[EmersonFish]

Some people are better fishermen than others; some people have better summertime fishing locations available than others. Most people have rough days now and then.

 

As for me, I'm capable of getting skunked any of the 4 seasons, if the conditions are right (or wrong, perhaps). That just motivates me. If it were as easy as catching fish at a well stocked, pay lake, it wouldn't interest me much.

 

I'm always learning and getting better. When it's tough out there, and people are lined up at the boat ramp, grumbling about the heat, trying to get home; if I can catch a couple decent fish, that makes me feel a lot better than catching those same fish at the crack of dawn, when they are all chasing baitfish right by the loading dock.

[NathanW]

You will get better. And you will eventually will come to a point where you just straight up, will not get skunked in the middle of summer on your home waters. Actually, you will get to a point where the only time of year you might get skunked is winter. I still get skunked in Dec through March often but can always buy a bite in November and April and am starting to figure our the cooler month as well.

 

Summer fish are very predictable, I honestly think they are the most predictable fish and I look farward to the dog days every year. I cut my teeth finesse fishing for smallmouth and although its not my favorite way to fish anymore I can always get the deep finesse bite going on slow summer days.

[Vaporwave]

I have gotten skunked almost every time i have gone out this summer. I have caught a total of 5 bass and have gone atleast 15 times this summer.

 

I just started fishing though and I am self taught so I guess I sort of expect it.

[AK-Jax86]

Man I hate getting skunked in the summer because of the heat!! Lol atleast if I catch a fish it's worth it dealing with the heat it's that much worse when I don't catch fish and always seem like it's hotter than it is when skunked

[kms399]

i have been skunked 3 times in a row. my issue is the water level is high and the water temp has gone down 10 degrees. shallow is producing nothing, I back off to deep weed edges, nothing. I honestly don't know what to do. im pretty much blaming the water temp. im open to suggestions. tried everything from frogs, buzz baits, flukes, senkos, shallow cranks, deep cranks, t-rigged plastics (all depths to about 15') (these lakes are pretty shallow), thinking maybe going small perhaps shaky head or drop shot.

[Skeeter Dan]

If I want to catch fish every time I go fishing. I would go to my buddies house just down the street and fish in his pound. I go to the lakes and Rivers for the Challenge. Poor skills and old electronics make fish hard to catch. So when I catch one big or small I had a great day. If not I still had a great day

[Mainebass1984]

Getting skunked is not allowed.

[A-Jay]

Getting skunked is not allowed.

 

Especially in Your Boat -

 

You've been Killing it this season ~ !  ! !

 

A-Jay

[(='_'=)]

Today I got skunked, plain and simple.  Getting skunked sucks regardless, and nobody ever goes home happy when it happens, but it does happen. It is something that all fishermen have to deal with.  Anyway, while I was driving home contemplating about how awful of an angler I was and asking my self the common "what if?" scenarios I realized that it is the  "dog days" of summer.  I know that I should never have an escape goat for getting skunked, but I do realize that summertime bass fishing is not the easiest season by any stretch of the imagination and being skunked happens a fair amount in the summer.  I would be much more disappointed if I got skunked during the Fall or Spring.  I'm just curious if you fellow anglers feel the same way I do?  Cheers & tight lines!

 

actually I do.... at least i went out fishing!!

[einscodek]

I cant remember the last time I was skunked I think it was sometime last year and certainly not this year and not this summer.

If you get skunked, let it motivate you to take your fishing to another level