i think i'll always be a googan when it comes to landing big fish :wall:

Bar either your PM box is full or you can't receive any PM's.... :crying:

How about heading to the beach with my buddy, planning to do an "all nighter" which then was 7-midnight, and we were getting eels which meant automatic fish. With not knowing how to properly fish them I rigged mine with a 3-way and a 3oz sinker. I casted it out, threw my rod in a sand spike and waited. Reeled it back in after 10 min to find the biggest eel ball id ever seen, then proceeded to try to untie it. This procedure went on for about 2 hours.

whoops, sorry about that. all set now...

I had a googan moment this year.

I stopped at a tiny spot and hear fish slapping the water. I grab my fly rod and start casting and pulling out line so I can cast. My first cast hits the water and I immediatly hook up only to have the line wrap on the reel and break off. I didn't have anymore flies with me either.


I also once insisted on jumping between rocks when it was safer to just clim b down and climb up. Sure enough I jump, slip, then slid down the rock and tear a good 12 inch hole in my waders.

I remeber going to the outer banks and looking at all the sick custom rods, they were really long and like 350.00. I went to another shop and they had a 12 footer, it wasnt as pretty but it was 9.99. I figured wow those other guys are suckers paying 300+ for a rod i just bought for 10 bucks. Bought my first wood plug a big ole gibbs polaris, i figured i would be casting to bermuda. Well 30-40 yards was pretty humbling. I figured i would show those carolinians how to catch stripers. Didnt go so well. For a week of fishing i managed 2 skate and a puffer.

With not knowing how to properly fish them I rigged mine with a 3-way and a 3oz sinker. I casted it out, threw my rod in a sand spike and waited. Reeled it back in after 10 min to find the biggest eel ball id ever seen, then proceeded to try to untie it. This procedure went on for about 2 hours.[/QUOTE]

Thats classic, i remember doing the same thing.

i witnessed a great googan moment over the weekend...a guy showed up to a local beach where i was with what seemed like a 5' rod...tosses out a storm shad with a bobber...and then just sits there and waits...and waits...felt bad enough that i gave him a plug and gave him the suggestion of taking of the bobber and giving a bit of movement to things...

" ONCE A GOOGAN ALWAYS A GOOGAN"

I was lucky enough to be invited by a friend to the Vineyard this summer. Her father had heard I was a fisherman and was excited that we would be able to fish together. Well we met him at South Beach for a day of sun bathing and there he was equipped with his 12ft, two piece ugly stick, spooled with what felt like 50 lb mono and a three way on the end. The best part was what was attached to the 3 way, a 2oz sinker on one end and a wire leader with a Jumpin Minnow clipped on the other end. Needless to say he wasn't too successful fishing that day from the beach. When we got back home I introduced him to my plug bag.

That was a classic moment, but I've certainly had my fair share of Googan moments as well.

- Fishing the Canal, At Scusset low tide, casting with one rod, and chunking with another. Look over and my rod is being dragged through the water with a fish on. I did manage to get the rod,but lost the fish. I never knew that you were supposed to loosen the drag ( I did feel better when talking to the guys who have seen rods pulled out from the rocks.

Fishing at night and forgetting my tackle box on the beach. It was basicly a fresh water tackle box with all of the saltwater stuff I had.

-I still find myself forgetting to take all of the plastic hook protectors off.

-Driving my truck on the beach in Truro and getting stuck. I break out shovel and start digging, some guys come by to help, and then I realize I forgot to put the truck in 4WD

Well....I didn't know what a Googan was until I read this thread....and know I'm one because as I was reading through the tales I kept saying to myself, "I wonder what's wrong with that?"

It reminds me of a proverb that I like to live by:

A man who knows not and knows he knows not is a child, teach him.
A man who thinks he knows but knows not is a fool, shun him.
A man who knows what he knows is a wise man, follow him.


I believe that living one's entire life as a combination of child, teacher and wise man is not bad.

Bruce the Googan.

origin of Googan?
 

Does anyone know who came up with the term Googan? Who or what is the original Googan? Is it from a movie or tv show? The first time I heard the term it was in the book"Trolling for Striped bass and Bluefish" by Capt. Pete Barrett. I thought he came up with it but maybe not.

http://www.googan.com/default.htm
I don't know where the term as used here came from but they have their own site.
When I worked at Killington in the early 70s we used to call the skiing equivalent "turkeys" Some of them became skiers. Funny, I don't remember any girl turkeys.

Do they Gobble?

Freshwater googan story. Me and a buddy were fishing opening day Trout 5yrs ago . We were in my 10ft coleman crawdad pushed by a 34lb thrust trolling motor anyway we decided to move out of the cove we were in to the open lake. We reel in and hunker down against the wind and I crank the motor to hi. Well a few minutes later I look to the bank and we made a little headway but not much. Now the banks are full of people when out of the early morning silence comes a voice ( YOUR DRAGGIN YOUR ANCHOR) followed by thunderous lafter. It was a long ride out of that cove, after I pulled the anchor of course.