Don't give up on the trap gun. The last fifteen years I've been using a 31" Beretta 682 with an ever-so-slightly modified trap stock for skeet.
Before that, I shot a cylinder-bored Browing A1 trap (back when people was still touting 26" inches for skeet).
I much prefer to see the target all the time, and it's only a matter of learning to hold a tad lower to smoke them birds.
By the way, and I'm sorry but this must be said: American Skeet is for sissies!
Real men shoot ISU skeet with timer, low gun, 7/8 ounce loads and fast targets...
Although, I must confess, these days I and the other old geezers mostly shoot by the 1977 rules with doubles on station 3 & 5, but no doubles on station four.
The latest revision of the rules added two more doubles, and removed the incoming "ferries" on station 2, 3, 5, and 6.
Pure blasphemy! 25 targets and 16 of them as doubles!
Why should newcomers choose a difficult disciplin like skeet when there are no "easy" beginner targets to give you some succes in the upstart?
Apparently the rules were changed to add more challenge to the sport, but the pros still shoot almost full house all the time.
At the latest World Cup in Croatia, even shooting 123 targets of 125, you still needed a shoot-out to secure a place among the six finalists.