With all of the awesome posts and pictures it can get deceiving that some on this forum never have consecutive bad days, let alone weeks, of fishing. I am trying to put my fishing blues into perspective. What is the longest fishing drought you have ever been in? Not consecutive outing getting skunked, but consecutive outings or time period where you thought the fishing powers that be had it out for you!! Broken equipment, inclement weather, not even feeling a nibble on the end of your line, and so on.
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Almost sounds like every trip for me. I may catch fish I may not. Also broken rigs, rods, lost stuff happens every trip. Last softwater trip I had I was skunked. WH2 can vouch because he was there. Don't know if it means much cause it was last fall.
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March and April last two years 3 skunks in a row 13, 4 skunks in a row 14 I was living up to my name and starting to think I'd lost whatever I thought I'd learned lately. Thank heavens for May to help me think I have a chance again. It's really frustrating when others are still catching fish and I wasn't even catching a cold. Cold streaks sure happen for me. Later J
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I think my worst was about 3 trips in a row where my old float tube kept having issues, and my flippers kept coming undone. It's good to have these conversations....I had some luck at Willard last week but not what I wanted, and it can get discouraging hearing about all this phenomenal success folks have when some of us strike out.[mad]
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OK, i will share.
My wife and I took our Niece fishing, as its what she wanted to do for her birthday. We thought, hey a nice trip for trout on the bank should be tons of fun.
We get to the lake and it is a beautiful day, but not one bite for hours and hours, and as 6 years olds go, man this little girl has the patience of a saint. We fished from about 9 AM and at around 3PM, we were thinking its time to pack it up and go home skunked.
It was at this moment that I see her new pink rod is getting a hit, and it is a hard hit! I got so excited, I called her name so she could see her rod, and I jumped up to help....... I missed my first step as my foot slipped off a round rock which caused me to lose my balance. I was able to make a small hope to clear her rod so I wouldn't break it, but this only made me lose my balance further. I manage somehow to stay off balance moving in a forward directing to about 4 feet out into the lake before I fell. With all the excitement, I managed to hook the fish though I don't know how, but my niece was to busy trying to decide if she was allowed to laugh at me that she coldn't reel, and the fish got away about half way in. (My wife had no issues in laughing, and this finally made my niece realise she could also laugh.)
This was proceeding 2 trips to yuba with poor cold rainy weather ands winds so high we had to stop and went home fishless. also trip to willard where we got skunked as everyone around us was catching fish, and another trip to willard where the weather went sour the night before and we didn't catch a thing, nore did we see anyone catching anything. but 2 days prior and 2 days after everyone seemed to be posting madness on the lake with fish that wouldn't leave them alone.
All in all, every trip was fun, I learned something, and best of all I wasn't at home watching TV. We all know the says "A bad day fishing beats a good day at work".... but I don't understand that saying.... what is a bad day fishing?
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