Whats the longest stretch of time with out catching one?

[YoTone]

In the beginning of last week I had a nice run of catches but the last few days has been frustrating. 

I know its a game of patience but I was just wondering what was your longest stretch with out catching a bass?

[Bluebasser86]

About a month 2 years ago when my son was born. Other than that I rarely go more than a week without catching a bass. 

[YoTone]

sorry i meant the longest stretch of time of fishing of getting skunked.

like 5 times in a row and such.

[Bluebasser86]

Twice, maybe 3 times? Not more than once on full day trips though. 

[HookdUP]

the last time I went for a full day of fishing and I was being serious and didn't catch one was March 3 2016... Water was 38 degrees in the first tournament of the year . No one caught a fish in any lake or the near by four that anyone heard of and there were three tournaments going on and all goodwinter anglers . If I get the feeling it's going to be a grinder I grab a jig and I grab a shakeyhead worm on light light line . 

[EricTheAngler]

6-7 months. Its been one bass after that stretch... 

[buzzed bait]

in winter i just chalk it up to winter....  i may go 2 or 3 trips without, now granted i'm in a kayak and not running and gunning the whole lake.

this time of year, heading into spring, i'm pretty disappointed if i don't catch one each trip!

[Jaderose]

Funny...this is how I figured out that I was actually getting better as a bass fisherman.  That I wasn't just blindly throwing stuff and hoping for the best anymore...when getting skunked became more of a rarity than not.  If I'm beating the banks for an hour I don't really care or even count that as getting skunked.  If I'm in my boat for the day, I can't remember the last time I got skunked.

[senile1]

57 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Twice, maybe 3 times? Not more than once on full day trips though. 

This would be about right for me.  On a day with a tough bite, you can commonly go 2 or 3 hours without a bite.  If you stay a full day you give yourself more time to figure them out, or hit the bite window if there is only a short period of time when they are active. 

[Nitrofreak]

I hit a dry spell the last several outings on a lake that I normally do very well on, although I understand that I am focused on learning new techniques and such with baits I have never used before, I have convinced myself that I should expect 0 fish days while in this learning curve, I will say that it's very difficult not to pick up what I know works, the feedback and the lessons I'm learning though by far outweigh the goose eggs.

[BareHook]

30 years, got into ocean fishing, then married, and kids. Now kids are old enough for interest, 6 months ago started up again with the kids and going gang-buster.

 

[Team9nine]

One day, and that usually only happens about once a year, and always when I'm relegated to the bank during weather extremes.

-T9 

[Paul Roberts]

2 hours ago, Team9nine said:

One day, and that usually only happens about once a year, and always when I'm relegated to the bank during weather extremes.

-T9 

Ditto. I get some days that kick my butt -always extreme conditions, and I'm often relegated to the bank nowadays. Sometimes I choose those days, just to see if I can figure something out; Sometimes I have . This year I've already logged two skunkings. It happens, and it's a tough go, making us wonder just why it is we're out there.

I've come to throw a fly rod in the car on bright sunny days as the stream trout fishing can be a better option than those shallow sun bleached bass ponds.

[BassMaster17]

2 days of fishing from dawn till dark, third day caught a nice 4lber to ease my pain.

[Turtle135]

All of February 2015. 7 brutally cold fishing trips. The only thing I caught were two channel catfish and a mild case of frostbite. I was on a mission to catch a bass without resorting to a warm water discharge area. The mission failed.

[Steveo-1969]

I fish a river all year long (it doesn't freeze over where I fish).  I've gone 3 months without a fish (ANY fish, not just bass), fishing every Saturday and Sunday for a minimum of 4 hours per outing.  Talk about beat me to death!  I don't have a boat and the water was too high to safely wade, so this was all from the bank.  Luckily that didn't happen this winter.  I still got skunked a bunch of times but managed to catch some fish all winter long.

[Felix77]

Currently haven't caught one since last November.  Gotta get out and get me some.

[Joey Battipaglia]

the first 7 times i started swimbait fishing 

[ww2farmer]

I went from mid Nov. of 2015 to just this past Tuesday without catching one.....................of course I didn't fish one time during that stretch.

[trick worms]

First time inshore fishing by myself... 4 days in a row with nothing

[Airman4754]

I fished Clearlake in November for two full days and didn't catch one fish. I hooked one in the double digits on an S-Waver but it threw it on the first jump. 

One of the top lakes in the world, lost what was easily my PB, and got skunked twice. 

Yeah, pathetic. 

[juicebass]

It all depends on how long you can go out for, if I do 2hrs and don't catch one, well I didn't hit all spots or give it enough time.

I when out for 7 hrs in one day once last summer with 3 guys including myself and I was the only one who didn't catch. Missed a bunch of frog bites tho. But they just didn't want the frog that day.

Im always happy when I get that first one, and I'm like "okay I can go home happy now" and that fades after 30 minutes lol

 

[Bankbeater]

Longest time without fishing is usually from sometime in November to sometime in March. Depends on the weather.

Longest time being skunked was three weeks.  That happened a couple years ago and I couldn't buy a bite.

[N Florida Mike]

I can't remember ever being skunked but once in a while.Never Twice in a row or more.I guess you'd have to consider some kind of minimum time limit on it.I fish in the lake in my back yard and cast at least a little nearly every day and don't always catch one and I've gone a few times out there in a row and not caught anything but I'm only talking about a short time period.

[Maxximus Redneckus]

2 days