Where the hell are the fish! ?

[Ksam1234]

So first time ever. Past two days I have been completely skunked .. even morning bite and sundown bite. Nothing !! Tried 3 different places and even the same place twice and nothing. Tried every lure known to man ! Just no bites at all.. wonder if the world is comming to an end ha. Anyone else having bad luck lately ? 

[Mike L]

It happens to everybody once in a while. 

They're still there, just not where you're at or they don't like how or what you're useing. 

 

Best advise I can give is just keep fishin. 

 

Mike

 

 

[finatic]

Senko!

[Ksam1234]

25 minutes ago, Mike L said:

It happens to everybody once in a while. 

They're still there, just not where you're at or they don't like how or what you're useing. 

 

Best advise I can give is just keep fishin. 

 

Mike

 

 

Yeah it was just a bad day. Hit a deer with my truck on the way to the lake and lost 2 lures today on top of no fish 

20 minutes ago, hawgwash said:

Senko!

Tried it lol

[Sword of the Lord]

I was feeling the same way this morning but I kept on grinding away. Nothing was working. Eventually I saw this lady swimming right in front of me. She stopped and stared me down. That's how I know she is a she. She was admiring my charming good looks. Anyways I had a Texas Rigged Senko in the water about 15 yards away from her so I reeled in real fast and let it fall in front of her. Like any good gold digger she took it.

 

Really nothing more than dumb luck.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Almost missed the point of my reply! So as it usually seems to be, it's a matter of finding the bass. Burning a Senko and stopping it right in front of a fish isn't good technique. I mean there's no way that bass didn't see a stick of plastic flying at her like a bullet, yet she still took it. So she found me instead of me finding her. But my bait came before a bass and I got the bite. She was shallow. I was fishing shallow, but I was fishing along a weed line that usually holds them. She was roaming completely open weed free water near the shore.

[38 Super Fan]

It's been tough here lately too. The Summer to Fall transition is probably the hardest time of year for me. Not only do the fish scatter out, they seem to get into bad moods more often this time of year too.

[Ksam1234]

39 minutes ago, 38 Super Fan said:

It's been tough here lately too. The Summer to Fall transition is probably the hardest time of year for me. Not only do the fish scatter out, they seem to get into bad moods more often this time of year too.

Yeah we keep having crazy temps which is warming and cooling the water fast so they don't know what's going on.. stuck in like an invetween stage.  For a couple weeks it was like 60 during the day and  as low as 38 at night, now this past 7 days has been 80 and sunny lol

[BuzzHudson19c]

2 hours ago, Ksam1234 said:

Yeah we keep having crazy temps which is warming and cooling the water fast so they don't know what's going on.. stuck in like an invetween stage.  For a couple weeks it was like 60 during the day and  as low as 38 at night, now this past 7 days has been 80 and sunny lol

Yeah, we have a little summer hanging on up here. I noticed the water temps dropped to almost 60 last week and it's back up to around 68. The fall feed isn't in full swing but if you are targeting smallies in particular go shallow. From what I have seen the smallmouth have spread out and are shallow. The deeper current areas I fished all summer were pretty vacant.

[IndianaOutdoors]

Marked a bunch of suspended bass this weekend.  They were hanging at 10-15ft in 20-25 fow.  Couldn't get a bite out there so I cranked the bottom in 10-15ft. Picked up a few small fish.  Picked up a few more pitching a spinnerbait to weed edges and docks.  They wouldn't hit the spinner on the move unless the wind was blowing and it was pretty calm most of the time.

[flg2010]

 

Look for a brand of custom fake worm you have not used before.  That got me out of my funk

[Rick Howard]

It's September in NY.  Things are changing in the water.  I would find green (healthy) weeds.

[Darren.]

When I saw "skunked" in the same paragraph as 
"first time ever" I did a facepalm. Dude. I've been

skunked more times that I wish to count.

 

Congrats on going so long w/o one!!  I wish my 

luck was that bad, LOL.

[Sword of the Lord]

I think that I've been skunked only a few times all year. There would be a lot more but I fish multiple bodies of water in a day.

[TOXIC]

If they ain't eatin, you ain't catchin no matter the reason.  

 

Keep after em!!   Sooner or later they gotta eat.   

[NHBull]

Yesterday I was on the fish. I could see them and they were good sized.  Hell I could have netted a few.  NOTHING worked!  As a last ditched effort, the wackyrig with 4 inch senko comes out and put 1 in the boat.

 

Still seeing a lot of suspended fish at 15-18 ft

[Catt]

Some days are diamonds...some days are stones...some days ya better off not leaving home!

[geo g]

South Florida, hot, water temps 90*, high water marks, thick vegetation, makes for tough fishing almost everywhere.  It will not get better until it cools, and the water levels drop.  The fish are still there, but buried in thick cover, or in places you can't get to them.

[Ksam1234]

4 hours ago, NHBull said:

Yesterday I was on the fish. I could see them and they were good sized.  Hell I could have netted a few.  NOTHING worked!  As a last ditched effort, the wackyrig with 4 inch senko comes out and put 1 in the boat.

 

Still seeing a lot of suspended fish at 15-18 ft

Yeah I'm just

hoping for some cooler days and the weather to stay around the same so I can find the right pattern. Just a matter of time 

4 hours ago, TOXIC said:

If they ain't eatin, you ain't catchin no matter the reason.  

 

Keep after em!!   Sooner or later they gotta eat.   

So true.. just have to camp out on my canoe and wait for that

moment hah

[Chaddy]

I've been to the lake two rivers 6 ponds early and late had one person catch one brim on a live worm and bobber. This has been in the last 3 weeks. Water temperatures is around 76-78 degrees. I had no luck and it sure isn't fun. 

[WRB]

On September 17, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Ksam1234 said:

So first time ever. Past two days I have been completely skunked .. even morning bite and sundown bite. Nothing !! Tried 3 different places and even the same place twice and nothing. Tried every lure known to man ! Just no bites at all.. wonder if the world is comming to an end ha. Anyone else having bad luck lately ? 

Every lure known to man? My guess is you tried lures you normally use at the location you normally fish and the result was a skunk. You make your luck. Doing the same thing everyone else does will have the same result everyone doing thing has.

Did you try a slip shot rig, a punch rig, a swimbait or a rat,top water wake bait, a twin spin, under spin, tail spin, jerk bait, Scrounger jig, hair jig, etc,etc...the answer is no you didn't along with thousands of others.

Tom

[Catt]

"If you do what you've done...you'll get what you've always got!"

[Ksam1234]

42 minutes ago, WRB said:

Every lure known to man? My guess is you tried lures you normally use at the location you normally fish and the result was a skunk. You make your luck. Doing the same thing everyone else does will have the same result everyone doing thing has.

Did you try a slip shot rig, a punch rig, a swimbait or a rat,top water wake bait, a twin spin, under spin, tail spin, jerk bait, Scrounger jig, hair jig, etc,etc...the answer is no you didn't along with thousands of others.

Tom

Actually I did try a lot. I tried , crank bait, wake bait, Texas rig baits , senkos t rigged and wacky. Spinnerbait, jigs, swimbaits , swimjigs. Buzzbait , whopper plopper, underspin, lipless crankbaits, deep diver, shaky head, .. that's all the tackle I pretty much own so.. everything at my disposal I used. Oh and jerk baits and punch rigs. Weightless and with weight... might be missing a few things but that's all I own 

[DINK WHISPERER]

12 hours ago, geo g said:

South Florida, hot, water temps 90*, high water marks, thick vegetation, makes for tough fishing almost everywhere.  It will not get better until it cools, and the water levels drop.  The fish are still there, but buried in thick cover, or in places you can't get to them.

Very true here in FL. But, they can't hide anywhere from my 8 ft punch rod! I love this time of year because heavy cover fishing is my favorite way to fish. 

[Sword of the Lord]

14 minutes ago, Catt said:

"If you do what you've done...you'll get what you've always got!"

The ole definition of insanity adage