Most of my short outings are to fish a specific presentation that I am hot and bothered for at the moment.  A lot of the time the fish are not into what I am trying to feed them, so I skunk out pretty often.  If I am going out with the intention to just catch bass, then it's a rare trip where I can't grind out a fish or two on longer trips where I bring a wider range of tackle.

 

This winter was very rough and I was at maybe 12-16 trips before I managed to catch one.  I do a lot more hiking and cigar smoking in the winter months.  

Got skunked again yesterday, fished 30-40ft clear water.

 

Drug a Carolina rig, deep crankbaits, chatterbaits, t-rigs, flukes in the shallows. Had 2 hits on the fluke. 

 

Hard fishing, I'm use to shallow muddy rivers, not crystal clear deep ponds

15 hours ago, Raul said:

Fishing a fishless pond doesn’t count as being skunked.

But I didn't even get either a snake or turtle to bite!!  

17 hours ago, BrackishBassin said:

I used to worry about getting skunked until I started watching MLF all of the time. Once you’ve seen a few pros go all day without a bite, it makes me two or three hour fish-free sessions seem like nothing. 

Yep....I always watch a episode the night before I plan on going fishing. Makes my time on the water less stressful knowing that even the best have no luck at times.

 

 

A better question is how often do you not get skunked.

 

During this time of the year not all that often, however, the same can't be said for the colder months...

This morning. Not even the trusty ned rig could save the day. Same place that was giving it up in a big way just a couple days ago. It happens.

Pretty often. At least I tend to catch bigger bass though...

I’m not able to I wet a line as often as I want, but I’ve been skunked once this year. Nothing off of my go-to Senko color, nothing from a jig, nothing from a spinner bait or lipless crankbait.

 

 It happens, just gotta learn from it. 

 

it depends on what you consider getting skunked. there are times the bass just will not bite, but there are so many catfish, white bass and drum in our lakes that I usually catch a few of them while pursuing bass.

I don't recall the last time I went without catching a fish. there were a couple times this spring that I did not catch a bass.