You might be a googan if.... - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

ecduzitgood · 03-02-2009, 02:05 PM

1.If you keep turning (reeling) the handle while the fish is taking line.

2.Also after chuming BFtuna all day and the captain starts the boat and the chaffing gear (16oz. bank sinker taped on a tube) from one rod gets wrapped aroung the prop (inboard) and you throw a rope over the stern and open the Tuna door and hop in with a knife and a mask and swim under the boat cutting it free managing to cut yourself (minor cut) and after 15 mins. you hop back on board just realizing the chum stopped just before this happened. What could be following the chum line??????

3. You want the wire line to go alittle deeper while trolling and freespool without thumbing the spool (person on a charter when my back was turned GRRRR.)

4. Nobody tells you the beach was closed all day to swimming you get there after 5 and put your mask and fins on to scout this new beach to fish that evening spend about 45min. swimming out about 100 yards 20'-30' of water looking for structure. Head to the bait shop and tell them.They tell you the beach was closed and why .....two 10'-12'tiger sharks were spotted just off the beach that morning.

Sweetwater · 03-02-2009, 02:43 PM

you leave all your tackle in open Plano boxes on your tail gate and drive off leaving your gear in the sand (me).

you throw a nice fish under your truck to keep it out of the sun and drive off, forgetting the fish (you know who you are).

you accidentally knock an idling boat in reverse while your fishing companion is casting off the bow.

MAKAI · 03-02-2009, 03:30 PM

you accidentally knock an idling boat in reverse while your fishing companion is casting off the bow.[/QUOTE]

you do that on purpose

JohnnyD · 03-02-2009, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by MAKAI

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you accidentally knock an idling boat in reverse while your fishing companion is casting off the bow.

you do that on purpose

I thought so too.

jimmy z · 03-02-2009, 08:15 PM

If ya come out to the end of a breachway, in your bare feet, bombed to the ears, and just being a plain nuisance.

2na · 03-03-2009, 07:53 AM

if you carry a mallet to the beach to hammer your sand spike in...

Flaptail · 03-03-2009, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by 2na

if you carry a mallet to the beach to hammer your sand spike in...

Actually that is the correct way to insert a sand spike. Lord knows how many rod and reel combos I watched get launched from Race Point and Chapins beach sands. Funny expresion on the guy who comes looking for his rod and all he finds is drag marks to the waters edge and you just point out to see when he asks if you saw it.

2na · 03-03-2009, 02:49 PM

I beg to differ Flap - you gotta wiggle it in, and you have to use steel spikes. I've watched too many chase rods into the surf, it is excellent entertainment. I've seen a couple get caught later and the gear and fish retrieved. The hammerers always have PVC spikes, which go in fine in high beach sand but at lower tide they have to contend with the rip rap, banging it in makes a loose fit, and one good fish is all that is needed. They never pay attention anyways.

Walked out to Balston one spring AM a number of years back and about 100 yards from the access this guy had set up a tarp for cover, open side toward the ocean. He had a tv, boombox, cooler, Coleman lantern (still going), sleeping bags, etc. It must have taken him a couple of hours just to get all that stuff out there. Me and my buddy start nailing schoolies, he wakes up, gets up his kid, walks down to the surfline and starts banging in that spike. He had everything else, I shoulda figured. We got about 100 fish, he scored 2-3. I think he may have been King of the Googans.

Of course, when you are holding the rod it's harder to lose.

Scout · 03-04-2009, 06:14 PM

If you smash your lower unit on a boulder.
Then smash your new lower unit on the same boulder!

Travis · 03-02-2009, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ecduzitgood

1.If you keep turning (reeling) the handle while the fish is taking line.

2.Also after chuming BFtuna all day and the captain starts the boat and the chaffing gear (16oz. bank sinler taped on a tube) from one rod gets wrapped aroung the prop (inboard) and you throw a rope over the stern and open the Tuna door and hop in with a knife and a mask and swim under the boat cutting it free managing to cut yourself (minor cut) and after 15 mins. you hop back on board just realizing the chum stopped just before this happened. What could be following the chum line??????

3. You want the wire line to go alittle deeper while trolling and freespool without thumbing the spool (person on a charter when my back was turned GRRRR.)

4. Nobody tells you the beach was closed all day to swimming you get there after 5 and put your mask and fins on to scout this new beach to fish that evening spend about 45min. swimming out about 100 yards 20'-30' of water looking for structure. Head to the bait shop and tell them.They tell you the beach was closed and why .....two 10'-12'tiger sharks were spotted just off the beach that morning.

Very specific....was it you?? Those are pretty funny!

ecduzitgood · 03-02-2009, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Travis

Very specific....was it you?? Those are pretty funny!

Yes it was. I did some pretty foolish things in my youth because of my love for fishing. The wire line was while I was a mate working a 55' Hatteras.

And I also type, edit, type, edit, type.

SirWinston · 03-02-2009, 03:41 PM

You might be a googan if....

...you spool up three reels with braid (old style Fireline), head out fishing with one of them, and only when you are waist deep wading you find out that the blasted braid slips on the spool while reeling in just the lure because you didn't put any mono backing on.....and knowing as you trudge back to the car that this is going to be the same situation for all three reels......

FishermanTim · 03-02-2009, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ecduzitgood

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4. Nobody tells you the beach was closed all day to swimming you get there after 5 and put your mask and fins on to scout this new beach to fish that evening spend about 45min. swimming out about 100 yards 20'-30' of water looking for structure. Head to the bait shop and tell them.They tell you the beach was closed and why .....two 10'-12'tiger sharks were spotted just off the beach that morning.

Funny you should mention this, as I was vacationing in Hawaii back in '92, and we were staying on the islan of Kauai (?).
We took a trip up to the "Barking Sands Beach" on the north west shore, just south of the Napali coast. We spent the day swimming and relaxing, marvelling in the fact that there weren't more than 6 other people on the 1+ mile of beach.

When we got back to the condo we were staying at, we read in USA Today that there had been a shark sighting/attack at the beach the weekend before we got there.