Longest skunk streak?

[roadwarrior]

[NYWayfarer]

7 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Never more than two consecutive trips! I would panic

The only time I get skunked on my home waters is early in the season (right after ice out) and late in the season (right before ice) I have the baseball method of three strikes (skunks) outings and I give up for the year late in the season or wait for it to warm up a bit more in the early season.

 

Once fishing is on April - October I rarely if ever get skunked. I will throw a live worm and catch a Sunfish just to avoid that. It helps to love multi-species fishing.

[Bankbeater]

The longest I have gone with a skunk on me is 3 consecutive trips.  I don’t count trips down to the local park to practice a new technique, or to check the gear. 

[Ratherbfishing]

If you don't count the long winter months when I don't fish at all, I don't think I've gotten skunked more that twice in a row.  But in all fairness, one of those times was VERY early spring.  I don't get skunked too often but this isn't to say I don't struggle and/or catch only one or two fish.  I have a few tricks up my sleeve worthy of catching at least a few fish.

[MIbassyaker]

I frequently get skunked fishing from shore, as I'm usually doing it for 15 minutes to an hour at a time, and usually only when my kayak is put away in the fall and spring.  Its common for me to be out fishing riverbanks, park gravel pits, or around lake launches in March or November from shore for a half-hour or an hour at a time, and not catch anything in several successive trips.

 

However, 2020 has been the first time I have been skunked more than once between May and September in the kayak since I started fishing out of one (twice this year, but not in subsequent trips). Last summer I broke a 2-year streak of not getting skunked on the kayak during a trip (I blanked during a 3-hour excursion to a new lake I haven't been back to yet).

[Bluebasser86]

1 day is the longest in recent memory on a full day trip and that was during the winter on a lake with 36* water and the wind blowing to hard to fish effectively. I haven't skunked 2 days in a row in I can't remember how long.

[Sphynx]

19 hours ago, RoLo said:

 

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

That all changed though, when jury duty was over                               

He's guilty I say, now can I go fishing please?!

[TriStateBassin106]

On 8/7/2020 at 6:35 PM, Ratherbfishing said:

If you don't count the long winter months when I don't fish at all, I don't think I've gotten skunked more that twice in a row.  But in all fairness, one of those times was VERY early spring.  I don't get skunked too often but this isn't to say I don't struggle and/or catch only one or two fish.  I have a few tricks up my sleeve worthy of catching at least a few fish.

Please speak of these "tips" to another angler in need of learning lol

[Ratherbfishing]

12 hours ago, TriStateBassin106 said:

Please speak of these "tips" to another angler in need of learning lol

There's nothing magic about them and I'm no "pro."  They just almost always produce-if nothing more than a few small bass.  Using mono or fluorocarbon line no heavier than 6 lb, fish a small Texas-rigged white or pearl ringworm (boot tails are my preferred- I still have some Havoc Beat Shad which are hard to top) slowly along weed edges and especially along drop-offs or in pockets.  Another oldie but goody is a small, natural silver or white original floating Rapala (sometimes chartreuse works great too) in among flats or any cover.  Especially if you see any minnows jumping.  Twitch it.  Let it dive a 6 inches or a foot.  Let it float back up.  Wait.   Rinse and repeat.  When the going gets tough, however, my money is on smaller soft plastics fished weedless in and around vegetation.  Shade is almost always good.

[moorecd3]

On 8/6/2020 at 10:30 PM, DSTN said:

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!

Just had to add to this at the end of the month.  It's been brutally low water across the board around here.  The biggest issue I am experiencing lately is the crazy amount of short strikes.  I don't recall them ever quite this non-committal.  I won't give up though, knowing cooler weather is just around the corner.

[Jleebesaw]

I really dont think ive ever been skunked two trips in a row. 2 weeks ago i got skunked. My friend got 7 from the back of my boat that day! I couldnt remember tha last time i had been skunked before that.

         So i keep a fishing diary. Have been doing so since 1999. I looked back and found that my last time getting skunked was 11/30/2016. The last day of bass season here in ny. Bad way to end the year. I consider not catching my intended species a skunk. If im bass fishing and only catch a pike. I got skunked. Though my recent skunk was a total skunk. No fish at all.

         Im thinking about going through my notebooks to see how many days ive been skunked since i started writing down my trips. There are several books though!