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I tend to fish around the new moon but had an itch to scratch and went out last night on a 3/4 moon. Between hoofing it and driving the current ORV corridor I covered about seven miles of beach without a bump in the night. Frustrated as I am by getting skunked I picked up a few things from this trip. What do you learn from trips when you get skunked?

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I fished the salt 4 times this year and I was skunked twice and caught fish twice....if you then add a trip for stripers I took that was actually in a freshwater location, I wasn't skunked in terms of catching nothing - but I didn't catch any stripers, which means I was looking for stripers 5 times, and caught them on two trips

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You can go when all the factors line up and get skunked.

 

You can go when all the factors look horrible by the book and have an exceptional time. Not just at night but a bright sunny day.

 

Fish do not read books by sharpies. We do.

(*member formerly known as 'Skitterpop')

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I fish whenever I can which is rarely when things are ideal. I definitely catch when I probably "shouldn't" and get skunked when I should be catching. Gotta learn to love the skunk.

 

Didn't HFG catch a 40 sumthin pounder on a super hot august day a little while back? Never got a chance to finish her Italian sub if I remember correctly :)

 

Ya never know... and that's why its fun (and frustrating)

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You can go when all the factors line up and get skunked.

 

You can go when all the factors look horrible by the book and have an exceptional time. Not just at night but a bright sunny day.

 

Fish do not read books by sharpies. We do.

 

 

Truer words were never said. Newbies take note! :th:

 

-bd

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I fish whenever I can which is rarely when things are ideal. I definitely catch when I probably "shouldn't" and get skunked when I should be catching. Gotta learn to love the skunk.

 

Didn't HFG catch a 40 sumthin pounder on a super hot august day a little while back? Never got a chance to finish her Italian sub if I remember correctly :)

 

Ya never know... and that's why its fun (and frustrating)

46 and yes the italian sub went flying,it was 93 degrees in late july at noon,lol.you never know??

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46 and yes the italian sub went flying,it was 93 degrees in late july at noon,lol.you never know??

 

I didn't know that Italy had a navy, let alone such an amazing feat of engineering as a flying sub.

 

Thanks for teaching me take being skunked like a trooper HotFish.

 

The mackerel roundup will begin next week after the east wind blows for a few days, soon to be followed by the lobster roundup.

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46 and yes the italian sub went flying,it was 93 degrees in late july at noon,lol.you never know??

Nice, but what were the other conditions? Structure, wind, tide (slack, rise, or drop), current, water temp, and baitfish present?

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