Super User Long Mike Posted January 12, 2007 Super User Posted January 12, 2007 Is this a serious question? I mean who hasn't???? I've been skunked fishing for canned tuna at Wal-Mart Avid, that cracked me up! I'm a crusty old fart, but that one made me laugh so hard me wife thought I was having some sort of seizure. Best laugh I've had in a ong time. Mike Quote
Rebbasser Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 Shoot, yeah. Fortunately they are getting less and less-as Dodgeguy says, the more you learn the less it happens, but as has been said, that's why it's called fishing instead of catching Quote
Super User burleytog Posted January 12, 2007 Super User Posted January 12, 2007 I was skunked four times last year (March-October) out of around 55 trips. Some days I had to resort to meal worms for bluegill, but I always caught something. Quote
WhiteMike1018 Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 Not only have i been skunked fishing! Ive been Skunked by a Skunk!!! :- > Quote
Super User RoLo Posted January 12, 2007 Super User Posted January 12, 2007 I was at least expecting a punch line :-/ Okay, all those who never got skunked, please form two lines in the front of the room. The line on the left is for "NON-FISHERMEN"...The line on the right is for "LIARS". Roger Quote
eastkybass Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 More times than I can count. The worst ever was spending a whole week at Dale Hollow and not catching anything for the whole week. Now that is getting SKUNKED!! Quote
JT Bagwell Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 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. This past season was my absolute worst season I have ever had. There are a number of elements that combined to make it not a lot of fun. For starters I was getting kind of burned out on tournament fishing. I went fun fishing with my family a lot more and that was a lot more enjoyable for me. I was also extremely busy with work. To top it off, my wife got pregnant a couple of months before the fishing season started and didn't have the baby until after the season ended. So she was pregnant the entire tournament season. Oh and to answer your question, YES, I have been skunked. It was a pretty rare thing until this past season. I think it happened 3-4 times last year and it was not a fun thing. Hopefully this season will be much better. I am so anxious to get on the water now that it is driving me nuts. To make matters worse, they are calling for a big snow storm to hit here this weekend and the temperatures will be in the teens and twenties for the Highs over the next week or two. JT Bagwell Quote
logger Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 Many many times. But luckily the of times I get skunked goes down every season. The more I fish the better I get. Probably got truly skunked 3 on nice days last year. Quote
Siebert Outdoors Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 havent been skunked this year. (although I havent been fishing) If I remember correctly there was 3 times last year 1 time crappy and cold in february 2 time I broke my trolling motor and just floated around made due with what I had 3. Couldnt buy a fish. post front clear bluebird skies I can usually muster up atleast one fish. My stubborness helps me in that. Quote
Craw Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 I've been skunked plenty of times over the years. I fish the river quite a bit also, so when you can't catch'em in the river, it's pretty bad. I was on a pretty good roll during '06, and caught fish every time out...until December. I zeroed on a few trips during that month! Tough on the old ego! Quote
ga_hawghauler Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 yes been skunked. Some days you are just in the zone and it seems like you get a hook up on every cast and some days you couldnt buy a hook up. Thats the way life is I reckon but I love the days I am in the zone. Quote
George Welcome Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 Fortunately I have never been skunked, but I sure as heck have gone fishing and gotten nary a bite. Quote
mferris Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 i too have been skunked many times..not too often last year,but only because i'd catch a couple 12 inch bass... Quote
flyphisher # Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 It doesnt happen much, even more rarely when money is on the line. Today though I got a few bites but could not put one in the boat. I struggle in water 50 degrees or less. Not the way I wanted to start off the year fishing. Quote
Guest avid Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 I was getting sunked more toward the end of last summer. I had decided to "go big or go home" I didn't mind not getting a fish. My average bass were way larger and that's what I wanted. I guess it like home run hitters in baseball. They hit the most homers but they usually lead the team in strikeouts as well. Quote
Ky_Lake_Dude Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Is this a serious question? I mean who hasn't???? I've been skunked fishing for canned tuna at Wal-Mart I SO AGREE Quote
justfishin Posted January 13, 2007 Author Posted January 13, 2007 I am with you on the summer deal Avid. Around the last of July and into August up here I fish for bass almost at night exclusively. I still catch some good ones late summer but, most seem to be dinks. What started me night fishing years ago happened while I was in a club which sponsored as well as fished a lot of night tourneys. I learned a ton of places and techniques from the old timers in that club about night fishing. It is very popular here and a lot of fun. I have caught some of my biggest bass at night as well as some big numbers. One of my favorite places to do this is in, what I call, downtown Harrisburg PA. on the Susquehanna. We put in on a place called City Island in which is slack water behind a dam, and some of the bridges leading into the city have lights on them. This is smallmouth water and we have had some 75-100 fish nights using big 4" salty tubes with homemade rattles ( McDonald's straws loaded with no.9 bird shot). It is a blast. I use a black light and have some flourecent #8 line spooled up. It looks like 1/4" rope under that light. One thing that will drive you nuts is when you are half asleep about 2 in the morning and the bats swoop and hit your line and you tend to do a lot of hook setting,lol. Good luck. Quote
Okeechobee_Cracker Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Nope.........Never been skunked in my life............Well actually I might I have once or twice ;D Quote
texasbass1 Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 If you haven't been skunked, you haven't been fishing. Even the pro's have days like that. Quote
Brad_Coovert Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Yep, been there. How about this one...your whole club zeros in a club tournament. We had out classic at Patoka one year and no one caught a legal fish. Brad Quote
lunchbox508 Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 the last 5 times i went to the lake i was skunked 3 times and that was also because it was like 40 degrees outside and the second time i ran over a duck in the boat as i was leaving the marina. :'( so i got skunked and it cost me an 89$ prop and a hefty fine from the game warden even though the duck hit me!!1 ;D Quote
Rattlinrogue Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 Yes,I do get skunked as everybody that fishes enough will from time to time.On a bad day,I can usually come up with a dink or two,but there are those days that nothing you do works.On days like that,I'll usually get on my depth finder and try to find little known structure(for me...LOL).That can be fun in itself. Quote
fishbear Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 I am of the opinion that even if I do not catch fish, I am not skunked. I came away, having learned something that day to make me a better fisherman..... Frustrated,, Hell Yea, get that way a lot when the fish wont jump on my hook, but skunked, nahhh,,, it is all in how you look at your day. Quote
5282jt Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 Actually, a number of times. But only one time on the upper Myakka and that was last Saturday! In 17 years, this was thge 1st time! Bass there are seldom over 3-5 pounds, but I have always caught quite a few. This last Sat I got totally skunked, with 3 hours of steady, hard fishing! My wife was with me and got a Garfish on a spinnerbait! Quote
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