So your catching fish and an internet hero shows up

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by Adam_777

I first thought googan was someone who used google for all the answers.Now after watching the word evolve I try and paint a picture of a googan and the person that comes to mind is Barney from the Andy Griffith show.Does stuff wrong but doesn't know any better until he is shown.Not trying to cause problems but his general presence usually does a good job of it.Correct me if I'm wrong.

That would be a Barney, similar in appearance and action but typically landlocked and has a gun rather than a rod.
There are others of the same genus, skiers are known as Turkeys and typically hang out in Bars in the latest ski clothes and are seen standing on double diamond slopes, if you watch carefully you will realize they are slowly sidestepping down the entire trail. They will tell everyone in the bar at happy hour that they blasted down Ovation and how tough it was.

[Squid kids Dad]

Same thing happened to me last year and I found out it was a club member...Go figure..

[Frankiesurf]

Last week I was standing 150 feet or so from a blitz. Casting into it and catching blue after blue. The only other guy I can see is 300 yards to my left. I see him start wading his way towards me. He stops about 20 or so yards from me and the first thing he does is get on his cell phone and then starts waving his arms over his head like a madman. I look over my shoulder and here comes his buddy who sets up directly to my right. This guy has an 8 footer spooled with mono and his casts are going maybe 50 feet. His buddy has what looks like a 6 foot boat rod with a spinning reel on it. He is casting AND reeling upside down. I am not sure but it looked like he was using clams but reeling like they were plugs. This guy was casting about 30 feet. It gave me great pleasure to continue catching fish while these two idiots were coming up blank. I did tell the one cell phone idiot he was walking much to close to a 3 foot drop off. His buddy probably would have drowned trying to save his dumb ass and I would have had to make the call.

There were fish all over the place even if a little farther out than they could cast. Why jump in right next to me? I have the ONLY fish producing spot?

[Backbeach Jake]

We're all googs when we're out of our element. I'm supagoog on rocks.

[Brian L]

Hysterical..

Yes, all you can do is hope to educate folks w/r/t etiquette when things like this happen, as it's obvious that nobody else has or will. Just think of the service you pay to yourself and your fellow anglers in the future when the offender ceases his behavior. (yeah, I'm an optimist, and hopefully you don't get the uber-jerk who will also tell you to go f*** yourself even when you try to help them out!)

Boat guys can and will be the same. Just yesterday I'm fishing up in the bay along a ripline in about 6-10 feet of water. I'd been drifting over the same spot for a good 45 minutes with nobody but an anchored commercial boat within half a mile of me. Guy and his wife in a 30-sumpthin foot ski/pleasure boat and an umbrella rig on wire line comes trolling up the deeper edges of the island then turns hard left and drives no more than 25 yards off my stern. My fishing partner has a pogie out right in that range and had to reel it in pronto to keep from getting cut off. The guy cuts right over our drift, and looks over at me frowning and pointing hectically at his line, cussing at us because we're in his way!

I looked up, wanted to say something horrible (we'd caught two keepers at that spot), but instead loudly shared with him that he's probably going to get snagged on bottom with all that wire out and an umbrella rig in 10ft. of water. He mutters something I couldn't hear(probably good that I didn't!), then drives another 100ft, finding the bottom quickly as his line climbed up the shallow part of the rip from the 25ft depth he was in. His rig snares, rod goes over and he thinks he's on a big fish, because the boat is still moving and line is ripping of his reel. He jumps quickly off the wheel, grabs the rod and begins hollering instructions at his wife/girlfriend as to how to control the boat. He then waves to me and points to his line as if I should get out of the way because he's "on". I looked over at him and shook my head, laughing. "You're SNAGGED!" I said. Took him a good minute or two to believe me then he took another good 10 minutes to unsnag himself. When he finished, he reeled his line up and drove off with a pout, said nothing and wasn't seen by us the rest of the day.

Had I said what I originally wanted to say, my guess is that a person that ignorant would have went out of his way to make the next several hours of my fishing as miserable as possible. As it was, we let him make an ass of himself after the warning, waited 10 minutes and went back to fishing. Got five decent keepers yesterday and had a nice day on the water that stayed nice because I didn't lose my head.