You might be a googan if....

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Originally Posted by 2na

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.

4 foot piece of 3/16 by 1&1/2 inch angle aluminum welded to a 12 inch piece of 2 inch aluminum conduit. sharpen the business end with a file and your good to go , oh weld a little stop for the butt end in the tube.