Ever been skunked?

[justfishin]

I am hooking up the honesty meter here and want to ask, have any of you ever been skunked? Not in bad conditions but, on those days when you get to the ramp and you and a friend are talking about how it is the perfect day and you were going to slam them and were throwing out numbers like " We should probably have at least 30 ". The water is the perfect temp. No wind. Just a picturesque day and yet when the day was done you did not even get one bite. I have had more than  one day like that in my life. I pride in myself in being able to boat at least a few under any conditions but, I have absolutely been skunked. Come on know, be honest.

[Guest avid]

Is this a serious question?

I mean who hasn't????

I've been skunked fishing for canned tuna at Wal-Mart

[Captain Cali]

Too many times.

[Vyron]

Man , I get skuned many times

[MattStrykul]

For some reason, Saturday has been a skunk day for us when we go down to the lake. We go down Saturday and sunday and we always catch fish on sunday but never saturday (atleast for the past 3 months). But this past sunday we were skunked for the whole weekend, we had a few bites and I had one on but we are just learning to fish jigs. Its awesome.

[Catt]

Some days are diamonds

Some days are stones

Some days you're better off never leaving home  :'(

[KU_Bassmaster.]

Are you seriously asking me this question??? ...... Of course not!!!!! ;D

But who has also had one of those days you wake up and think to yourself, man do I really want to go out there??  The conditions aren't that great??  It's too cold or it's too hot or the wind is out of the wrong direction or there's a chance of rain or it's raining, etc, etc, etc. .......  But you decide to "suck it up" and head out and it turns out to be a memorable trip.  Seems like this happens yearly to me.  That's what makes fishing .... fishing.  Can't catch'em if your line is not in the water.

[Bud]

The person who says he has never been skunk is tell a fib

[Raul]

We all have.

But still, it 's a proven fact, you ain 't gonna catch 'em staying at home.

[Valascus]

Ooooooooooooooh yeah. I've gotten skunked more times than I can remember. But, hey, that's why they call it fishing...not catching.

[BucketmouthAngler13]

Is this a serious question?

I mean who hasn't????

I've been skunked fishing for canned tuna at Wal-Mart

;D ;D ;D

I have been skunked many a time. But like KU and Raul say you aint going to catch nothing staying home, exept if you have a private pond within casting distance of your back porch.

[boondocks]

Everyone gets skunked. Even the pros.

[BASS fisherman]

I almost got skunked this one time.

I was walking around a buddy of mine's house late one night to get to his back door when all of the sudden I hear this loud hissing noise. I immediatly froze in my tracks and there 2 feet away is a skunk hissing like a tire with a hole in it. So now I'm thinking "what am I gonna do now?" I figured if I just stood there maybe it would back away but it didn't, it held it's ground for a good 5 minutes until I decided to very slowely back away from the skunk. As I back away the skunk slowely starts backing away too, at an equally slow pace. After a slow retreat and another 5 minute wait the skunk just stops. I decided that if he was going to spray me the skunk would have done so already. I decided to chance it, and slowely walk past the skunk who at the time was about 6 feet away from the house. I had to go between the skunk and the house. So very slowely, I inched my way between the two keeping my eyes on the skunk and waiting for it to turn around and start stamping it's feet. Luckily he never did get too spooked except on the initial approach. I walked to the back door, and made it in to the house just fine.

And of course I have gotten skunked while fishing too. That is, I didn't catch any bass.

What gets me is when I am fishing with someone who could be classified as a "junk fisherman", and they are catching fish but you can't even get a bite even when you do what they do.

A couple weeks ago I was fishing at a local lake and the shore was lined with all the normal weekend warrior trout fisherman. As I am fishing I can hear them all talking among themselves and saying how the trout just aren't biteing that day. Immediatley to my left was a father and his 2 daughters. Out of the blue one of the girls about 10 years old catches a nice size trout for the lake. I was laughing so hard (to myself) that this little girl got bit, and all these vetern trout anglers can't get one bite. Those are moments to remember.

[Cigarlover 1]

More times than I care to remember. I absolutely HATE going in after getting skunked. Even if I fish for 8 hrs and only catch 1 fish I feel better than if I fish 1 hr and get skunked.

[senile1]

Getting skunked is like dying except it happens more than once.  You know everyone has to face it, but you just don't know when.  

[flechero]

It's the bad days that make the good days so special...  and since I REALLY appreciate the good days, you know I've pulled the ole Pepe' LePue many times.   ...lol

[5bass]

Oh yes.....sometimes they just dont cooperate no matter what you do or where you fish.

[RottManK9]

More than I care to admit! :-/  

[shimanogloomis man]

yes one to many times but it happens :'(

[nboucher]

I've pulled the ole Pepe' LePue many times.   ...lol

He's a stowaway with me way too often.

Actually, I just checked my log from 2006. I was skunked twice out of 40 days out, so I guess I've been skunked 5 percent of the time.

[dodgeguy]

2 times last year and none the previous year.it happens to everybody.fortunatly the more you learn the less it happens.

[clipper]

See signature below.  Not as often as I used to though.  I'd still rather go and get skunked than not get to go at all.  That's whats really bad.

[FishTank]

I've been skunked on perfect days when you think the fish are ready to be supper aggressive and caught lots of fish on days when it's windy, cold and rainy.  I guess it is all part of fishing.

For me at least, as long as I am outside and not chained to my computer at work, I'm happy.

[Alpster]

Is this a serious question?

I mean who hasn't????

I've been skunked fishing for canned tuna at Wal-Mart

I was trying to think of a clever way to answer this one, but I didn't have to look very far.  ;D ;D ;D Thanks for sayin what I was thinking, Avid. If I had a $1 for every time I've been skunked I could by pizza for all the members of BassResource.com

Ronnie

[=Matt 5.0=]

"A bad day of fishing still beats the best day at work"

I think we've all been skunked. We've gone out and my buddy will catch 5 or 6 and I won't catch anything. Nothing is worse than being on the water with a friend and he/ she just ain't catchin 'em, but you're pulling em in one after another.