Longest skunk streak?

[TriStateBassin106]

I'll start.

 

6 months. 

 

I'm also currently on a 3 day skunk because of the hurricane we had. 

[DitchPanda]

35 minutes..I've never been skunked an entire trip.

 

 

Obviously I'm joking...I'm not entirely sure but I would guess several weeks...at ice out and in fall leading to ice up its not uncommon for me to go through rough patches..especially since I'm shore bound.

[Finessegenics]

All depends what qualifies as a skunk. Are we talking no bass or any fish at all? Do the winters count? If so, I go around 6 months every year without catching a single bass (my last fish usually comes mid November and my first comes early May). But legitimately bass fishing, I went a almost a month late last summer, August 4 - September 1, without catching a single bass. I was doing one or two 3 hour sessions per week and I just couldn’t get them to bite. I’m guessing it was 15-18 hours on the water without catching a bass. 

[BigAngus752]

I don't keep exact stats on this but I'm going to say from age 35 to age 42.  Or at least that's what it felt like.  

[Bird]

Winter bass fishing is slow here so I've went several trips without a fish.

 

[N Florida Mike]

Ive been skunked but don’t remember being skunked more than once in a row. And what’s the criteria? I don’t consider a few casts off the bank being skunked if I dont catch a fish. If it is , then Ive been skunked more than I think.? 

[TriStateBassin106]

21 minutes ago, N Florida Mike said:

Ive been skunked but don’t remember being skunked more than once in a row. And what’s the criteria? I don’t consider a few casts off the bank being skunked if I dont catch a fish. If it is , then Ive been skunked more than I think.? 

Definition of getting skunked means no fish at all during a trip. This could be 15 minutes or 6 hours. No fish at all = skunk. 

[Boomstick]

I feel like my longest skunk steak was probably earlier this year. I finally got a couple of bass in early June, a couple of dinks, and then I did not get another until the end of July. I did get a few on my camping trip last week though.

[TriStateBassin106]

2 minutes ago, Boomstick said:

I feel like my longest skunk steak was probably earlier this year. I finally got a couple of bass in early June, a couple of dinks, and then I did not get another until the end of July. I did get a few on my camping trip last week though.

It's funny you say that because from the 25th of May to around the 8th of June I was also on a skunk streak, it's like the bite shut down hard right after spawn. 

[Boomstick]

4 minutes ago, TriStateBassin106 said:

It's funny you say that because from the 25th of May to around the 8th of June I was also on a skunk streak, it's like the bite shut down hard right after spawn. 

I didn't get any early in the year, but until I got the kayaks I didn't get to do a lot of fishing. Many of our shore areas were completely packed due to everyone fishing due to covid and others were not fishable because the water level was abnormally low, and these areas are low to begin with (I usually get them on a shallow jerkbait or a popper). Once I did get my kayaks and finally get my trailer registered (what a runaround that was!), it still took me a while to get fish.

 

Then as you said, the bite died off post spawn. This is somewhat normal, and with the exception of last year which was largely the same I usually can manage at least one decent fish.

 

I'm not sure if last year was worse. I got a few early in the season and around the same time I didn't get too many either. But at least that streak ended with a bite like I've never seen which may result in me misremembering.

[DSTN]

Not counting the wildly variable central IL winters...probably somewhere in the 4-6 week range. Had a couple absolutely brutal mid-July through August time periods in the last 5 years or so.  We had hot dry summers and I just couldn't ever get anything going. Didn't stop me from trying, and sweating!

[Koz]

I'm not sure if going by the calendar is relevant because for whatever reason I might not dish for a while. So I'd say 3 or 4 outings in a row.

 

But if you want to go by calendar then it would be about 22 years. I took an extended break from fishing. It was nothing in particular. Life just got in the way.

[Hammer 4]

Being in So. Cali, and fishing mainly city park ponds and lakes, I can't recall going more than 2 or 3 days in a row without catching a bass, and these places are very high pressured.

 

Don't get me wrong, I've been skunked many times. Mostly when fishing a lake from shore where the bass moved to deeper water, which from shore you have no access to, and there isn't many if any spots to get to the shallow water fish holding in cover. 

[GreenPig]

Blanked 47 days while only throwing big swimbaits. I typically catch at least a couple (may be dinks) on conventional lures on my regular bodies of water.

[TnRiver46]

Never more than two consecutive trips! I would panic

[scaleface]

I get skunked all the time . Make a few cast , no bites and leave . As far as no bass at all in a serious outing out of a boat for several hours , thats hasnt happened in years . I dont remember the last time I got skunked .

 

edited:  Ok . I think I remember my last skunking . It was out of   canoe about 8 years ago on a river I never fished before . Seven miles and nothing . Havent fished that river since .

[Jaderose]

2 hours ago, scaleface said:

I get skunked all the time . Make a few cast , no bites and leave . As far as no bass at all in a serious outing out of a boat for several hours , thats hasnt happened in years . I dont remember the last time I got skunked .

 

edited:  Ok . I think I remember my last skunking . It was out of   canoe about 8 years ago on a river I never fished before . Seven miles and nothing . Havent fished that river since .

Pretty much this.  I know my lake so well I know where the fish are.  I might go a couple of hours but never a full trip.  At least not for a long time

[Herbert Lorenzo]

Mine was 4 days in a row bass fishing . Could not buy a bite . Finally went somewhere else to fish .

[BassNJake]

I usually have one skunk a year.

The last couple of years I've tried to get the topwater bite going in sub 50 degree weather.

I get a bunch blow ups or swipes but not a commitment 

But it hasn't happened 2 trips in a row ?

[RoLo]

 

I've already gone 6 consecutive days without catching a single bass.

That all changed though, when jury duty was over                               

[Sphynx]

Frequently days at a time by the given definition, I usually have around an hour a day after work on my 14 hour clock to toss lures around a small area, maybe 100 yards at best of accessibility and less if swimmers are around, the fish are either in that spot, or they are not, if they are there, I get bit 9 times out of 10, if they are pulled back into deep water, I catch nothing 100% of those times, it's hard to feel too bad about taking an L given the limited access/time, but I guess they count as skunks for the purposes of this question 

[Team9nine]

One day is about the longest I remember. Started on January 1 here in Indiana and fished a lot of ice covered water this spring (obviously with some open patches), and don’t recall getting skunked more than a couple times all year, and never back to back. 

[scaleface]

I got skunked this morning . Made three stops at culverts and didnt catch a bass .

[Bankc]

October 5, 2019 to May 20, 2020.  That's about 7-1/2 months.  I probably made 30 trips, averaging about 5 hours a trip, and didn't get a single bite.

 

Granted a lot of that was in the winter.  And they were all at these two local lakes which are notoriously difficult to catch anything other than catfish in.  And they were lakes I was unfamiliar with.  But I eventually learned them.  What threw me off was the lakes are really dirty.  Visibility is often under a foot, so I wasted way too much time using loud or vibrating lures.  It turns out that because the lakes are within city limits and heavily pressured, the fish had grown wise to the noises and learned to avoid anything that made them.  I eventually learned that if you want to catch fish on these lakes, you have to use silent lures, choose your color wisely, pick apart every square inch, and move fast and far.  And even then, you're not gonna threaten a limit.  But at least you'll feel a tug on your line a couple of times before you're done for the day.  

[Alex from GA]

Threw a worm in the pond a couple of times yesterday and was skunked.  This morning I caught a fish and quit.  When I'm in the boat or kayak I can't remember the last time I was skunked and I fish several time a week.