Once Upon A Googan!

[partsjay]

I apologize for taking this thread somewhere else....it wasn't pointed at anyone, just a general view I sometimes see.....


I have done many a googan things...and still probably do.....

My 1st saltwater set-up....a white Mitchell Rod and reel from Wallymart.....headed down the Canal to do some bait fishin'.....with my Sneakers on.....walked right down the rocks....next thing I know....I'm sprawled out on my back.....bait everywhere....my pole in 2......I never even took a cast that day....

Used to fish off a jetty at night...same jetty....all the time......after about a year and a half of that....and 1 fish later.....I realized it was about 2 feet deep there.....WHOOPS.

[BxBomber]

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.

[numbskull]

Left Falmouth after work & dinner one late Oct night, got to the Vineyard, got to the Head, fished a perfect tide, got nothing, got home exhausted for 8am, got two small kids ready for the day, walked them to the local swimming beach for something to do, dead low,low tide, found two guys from Ohio trying saltwater fishing with 6 ft spinning rods, using poppers in 18" of water as far as they could cast. While I explained to one the futility of their effort, the other got a huge hit (right at his feet), screaming run, and managed to land a 14 lb bluefish. So who was the "googan"?

[BigFish]

Jenn...I agree!