Well since we're being honest and laughing at ourselves....The first time I hit this pier to try it out. There were a few people there. One guy I recognized and I go over and exchange fisherman war stories with him, when my reel starts screeming. I go over adjust my drag and start reeling, well almost everyone on the pier comes over and starts coaching me on how to reel him in. I'm ashamed to admit that I got so caught up, that I didn't realize that they instigated me into brutally fighting this fish against everything I was taught. I was High-stickin, running, and dodging, d#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g , and jumping. I got the fish on deck and then it dawned on me, I'm worn out, you'd think I just hauled in a blue fin the way I was sweating, all of that and the fish was just barely a keeper. I did everything that's considered a "googan's m/o", all on the ASSumption that I thought those gentlemen were seasoned veterans and knew all there is to fishing this spot. These guys were high fiving me and congratulating me on a 29" fish. Reality hit and I realized the error of my ways when I watched one guy snap his rod trying to yank the fish up onto the pier, and another guy leave a blue flopping around on the deck with the line and hook still in it's mouth because he was scared to unhook it.
