popular places to get skunked

[Chrisper4694]

i thought this would be a neat thing to talk about...hopefully it's not just me that experiences this haha

What lakes do you fish that everyone seems to love; they all have stories of awesome days catching tons of fish, huge fish. people will post pictures of giant fish being caught by all! popular places, not private lakes. and you just think...what the hell i fish there all the time and it's a barren wasteland... haha!

you know what i'm talking about right!?

for me the two that come to mind are bud and pompt lake. every dozen trips or so to bud i'll pick up 1 decent fish but i've never caught more than 2-3 fish there on any one trip and although i did lose a big pike next to my kayak once (long long ago) i've never caught a nice fish there. yet i keep hitting it every now and than probably in total over the years 10-12 times a year...which is a lot considering as far as i'm concerned, it may be a barren wasteland under there. pompt, i've gone to less but still many times and i have caught...diddly squat!

both these lakes are very popular and produce plenty of fish but for me personally, not... i just find it strange, maybe the lakes are in my head breaking me down mentally!

who else has lakes like that. popular big fish producing lakes that personally hate you and only you!

[Skunk City]

I'll be the first to nominate MONKSVILLE. Countless trips, hundreds of hours targeting Walleye there and I can't get one. Yet my first time targeting Walleye on Greenwood, Swartswood and Delaware River I've managed to land at least one. Though I have had nice fish from Monksville including my PB Crappie, some very nice night time Smallies, decent Largemouth, and even a juvenile Muskie, that place still frustrates the crap out of me.

[Mikeps326]

I do amazing for bass pickerel and crappie in Monksville, my place would have to be spruce run, went there four times never even caught a sunny.

[ScowardNJ]

I'll second Spruce! We had reports of dudes mopping up brids over there and all we ever did was burn out trolling motors and lights. lol
We'll be back!

[The Birdman]

Echo Lake !

It happens like this every time:

[bassnblues]

Mine is in the salt. Tuckerton/Great bay.

My late BIL owned a boat together and kept in in Keyport for 10 years. One year, we decided to keep it in Tuckerton for a change of pace and to switch it up. After 8 trips we finally had a day catching small fluke. I now refer to in as Skunkerton.

[Chrisper4694]

I knew monks ills was going to be up here. That's actually the only place I can consistently catch walleye with a lure (open water only). Sometimes small but nailed a nice 24" two falls ago.

What were you targeting on spruce? That place has been good to me for stripers but won't give up any pike or carp to me.

Echo lake I'll be fishing this year so I'll let you know how that goes, nice comic btw hahaha

[GetANet]

HATE MONKSVILLE!!!!
LOVE SPRUCE!!!!! as if everybody didn't already know that!!!!

Have a LOVE/HATE thing going with Hopatcong as well!!!

I fish Spruce weekly during the year and am quite surprised that all the hours I have on that lake that I have only caught three or four Pike as well!!!
Decent fish but nothing great!!! Hoping to eventually hook up with a Beast!!!

[Jigman13]

Originally Posted by Chrisper4694

I knew monks ills was going to be up here. That's actually the only place I can consistently catch walleye with a lure (open water only). Sometimes small but nailed a nice 24" two falls ago.

What were you targeting on spruce? That place has been good to me for stripers but won't give up any pike or carp to me.

Echo lake I'll be fishing this year so I'll let you know how that goes, nice comic btw hahaha

Great pic, dude. Looks bigger than 24"!

[RyanMac14]

Popular place to get skunked? Im sure most on here can agree, this year it was any place you decide to fish with me record 10 straight skunked trips.