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New Season is upon you grasshopper!!!! Time to break the streak!!! I can't understand how you can fish ten times and skunk each time???
Let us help you!!!!

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Almost any place for which one is not prepared well for. In the past I targeted trout on Monksville and always managed to get some smaller fish early in the season. Almost always got skunked there in mid season even after marking a ton of fish on a graph. I think we can all be successful if we would be prepared to switch on a fly to whatever species which are active! How many of us would switch from musky fishing to sunnies? Not many, thus Skunksville prevailed over many of us

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Any Stocked river/stream on opening day. Have yet to catch a single stocked trout on opening day itself. After getting skunked the past few years I just switched to fishing for wilds.

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Lol GetaNet you guys have helped me which prevented the streak from getting to 11 and led to a couple straights trips with a catch. Looking forward to improving this year and actually learning some good technique as well as learning how to read lakes. I am sure you will be hearing from me a lot in a couple months, let's just hope its not because I am begging for help again as I build another streak lol :)

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I'd nominate Monksville but nobody I know catches anything there.

Pompton Lake is a possibility, but I only fished it twice and caught one small bass.

My nemesis is Round Valley. I've put many hours of fishing in there over the past few years and have one trout, a few bass LT 12 inches and a few dozen rock bass to show for it.

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Milton lake last year was my nemesis I had a few really bad skunks fishing frogs and spinnerbaits in the summer when conditions should have been perfect.

I went there with my wife once late in the fall with bobbers and worms and got SKUNKED;) couldn't have planned it any better LOL

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I'll fess up, I've fished the Passaic 4 times and haven't gotten a thing yet.

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Fished it from shore twice. One I don't count because I was there barely a half hour. The other I was there about an hour and a half had a number of violent strikes on a spinnerbait, but no hookups. Also had a very large bass (4+ lbs) take a crankbait, but it jumped and spit the hook. My one extended day of fishing there out of my canoe, I caught my first pike ever (30") on one of my first casts, then nothing the rest of the day. I see promise there.

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it's just crazy how you see a place someone gets owned on and you think well i do well there and i'm not doing anything special haha and visa versa, it has to be a mental thing hahaha.

if you don't know rvr, troll it, it's the best way to learn it.

pass river can be awesome, change spots, stick with the lures people say work, i always see the same stuff, anything flashy.

am i really the only one that gets beat up on budd? no one else mentioned it!

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Skunksville is by far the worst most discouraging body of water I've ever fished. Carpet bombed with tip ups, silently paddled in a ft of water on north end. I just don't even see anything. I know of one angler on this board who has successfully figured out the walleyes after countless hours and many lost lures. Commendable but way too involved for my liking.