You might be a googan if....

[ecduzitgood]

Another one I did...I waded out to the mud flat off of the Mass. Maritine Academy ship with 20lbs of makerel in a bag in my herring basket cut for chumming/chunking. This flat is only accessible at low tide so when you go it's for six hours+/- and you are 200+yds. from shore looking at the Maritine ship between you and land and looking at the flat drop off into the canal. Start chumming and catching fish for about two hours when suddenly the fish stop hitting and I get cut off a couple of times and suddenly realize a shark (never saw him) picked up my chum slick and I am standing in waist high water....I backed out onto the highest point on the flat about two feet of water at high tide and waited till I could get back to shore safely; real spooky when it got to be dark. Last time I ever fished that spot. One other time I was out there fishing the far end I watched a boat try to go between me and the shore line heading for Buttermilk bay. Tried to wave at them to stop but it was too late they came to a stop and had to wait till there was enough water to free the boat. One of the women on board spotted me and they all started laughing at the guy who was behind the wheel.

[ecduzitgood]

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.

[FishermanTim]

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.

[SirWinston]

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......

[bonefishdick]

If you do this to your stripping basket

[bassballer]

Originally Posted by JohnR

And the Teevas with White Socks

AND DONT FORGET THE REST OF THE FAMILY

[blue oyster]

Originally Posted by johnny ducketts

You might be a googan if...
A) You kick a bluefish back into the water like a soccer ball.
B) You leave more line on the rocks and ground than on your spool.
C) Keep Short Fish
D) Stand behind the group of guys fishing in waders, because you are only wearing cut-off shorts and tennis shoes, and try lobbing 10 oz of bait and weight over their heads because you cant wade out as well.

thats not a goog thats an as$&@%#

[flyvice11787]

Originally Posted by Rappin Mikey

You might be a googan if you try and lip a bluefish.

I almost did that last October . Lack of sleep and the fact that I was just catching bass after bass for a couple of hours straight .

[flyvice11787]

Originally Posted by bonefish#^&#^&#^&#^&

If you do this to your stripping basket

Nah, that's pretty cool .

[flyvice11787]

Originally Posted by blue oyster

thats not a goog thats an as$&@%#

Agreed . A goog is the one who catches a fish, and then doesn't know whether to lip it, step on it, or throw a towel over the fish's head. And then freaks out when the fish starts flapping around when he's going to unhook it .

[inTHERAPY]

you leave your rod on the gunwale, eel dangling in the water, as the captain spins the boat to make another drift.

as your docking the boat and it gets away from you, you jump out to the dock without a line

your fending off your neighbors boat, the boat drifts out, you don't let go until you can not possibly recover and fall over....the captain never notices

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by MAKAI

you do that on purpose

I thought so too.

[jimmy z]

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]

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

[JoeBass]

1) walk into a tackle shop where 6 guys are hanging out and say "I need some advice" (they , of course, go on for 5 minutes with "don't marry too young", "stay in school", etc.(It happened to me, the googan)

2)A guy in a tackle shop is explaining to a group of guys how he had 40 lb. fish follow his lure right to the rocks several times and is going back later to get them. And I chime in "where is this spot?". Duh.

[Flaptail]

Originally Posted by bonefish#^&#^&#^&#^&

If you do this to your stripping basket

Or paid Orvis 50.00 bucks for a 3 dollar hunk of plastic shooting basket.

[Flaptail]

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.

[RIROCKHOUND]

You high-stick a Arra on a 15lb fish at Q and snap it (JR saw that one...)

[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.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by flyvice11787

-You might be a googan if....you insist that the red pork rind trailer on your pencil popper helps you catch more fish (true story).

I don't think that this one is as far-fetched as you think

[Redsoxticket]

-You might be a googan if....you modified a large blue broken back rebel swimmer with four 10mm bolts screwed and epoxied on the top while proudly admiting that you caught fish with it. This plug was like the frankenstien of swimmers. True story not me.

[Spiderman]

You might be a googan if:
You need to turn your head lights on to change your bait.
you need to turn your headlghts in to see if there is any fish around.
You wear a cycling helmet to go surfcasting, provided you did not just have bran surgery.
You attach a glow stick to your leader to see where casting.
You try to drive your 2 wheel drive Lexus sedan down the beach.
You attach a bobber to your bucktail because you lost a couple letting them sink to far.

[MAKAI]

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.

[flyvice11787]

Originally Posted by stripermatic

You might be a googan if:
You wear a cycling helmet to go surfcasting, provided you did not just have brain surgery.

Actually, that could just be someone being careful. One of the regulars at Montauk, in his 70's, wore a bike helmet while rock hopping on the south side.

Originally Posted by stripermatic

You try to drive your 2 wheel drive Lexus sedan down the beach.

Some 20 years ago, we got down to be beach, only to find the 4 wheel drive access closed and cops everywhere. We find out some drunken idiot drove a station wagon (one of those big late 70's models) half a mile down the access road and then proceeded to pass out . It took 2 wreckers to get him out (the first one got stuck also ).

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by stripermatic

You try to drive your 2 wheel drive Lexus sedan down the beach.
.

Used to happen in Montauk all the time. Easy access onto the beach in town and some people in 2 WD sedans, sometimes drunk, sometimes not, would drive onto the beach.

[bonefishdick]

"Or paid Orvis 50.00 bucks for a 3 dollar hunk of plastic shooting basket." Flaptail

So I guess that means :

You might be a googan if you get a Orvis stripping basket as a Birthday present from your children after you were diagnosed with Cancer.

I am proud of the basket and proud to use it.

Just flap your Tail and not your Mouth

[wheresmy50]

Posts like this degrade so far, so fast.

It's always the same. Some people get offended, and some people post things that are very un-googan.

Someone tell all the bucktail and casting egg guys that they're googans for using a bobber.

[Flaptail]

Originally Posted by bonefish#^&#^&#^&#^&

"Or paid Orvis 50.00 bucks for a 3 dollar hunk of plastic shooting basket." Flaptail

So I guess that means :

You might be a googan if you get a Orvis stripping basket as a Birthday present from your children after you were diagnosed with Cancer.

I am proud of the basket and proud to use it.

Just flap your Tail and not your Mouth

Sorry about your cancer and do understand the sentimentality of the object but you posted the picture and you do understand that when you do that on a site like this you leave yourself wide open and how was I (we) to know about your personal medical issues?

You might have noticed this is not what you would call a touchy feely bunch here.
Flaptail (mouth) (gums) (whatever)

[MakoMike]

You might be a googan if you said something like

I don't want to sugar coat it but most commercial fishermen are a bunch of greedy, rude, illegal-minded, beer drinking, overweight, tax avoiding, uneducated , rule breaking, whackos.

[MAKAI]

So . . . one nite a few years ago I am driving along the back trying my best, but it's not my nite. I see this bright light ahead of me like a small city. It turns out to be about 20 people bait fishing, men and women, gigantic bonfire. The best part is they strung 2 eight foot high output fluorescent lights between a couple of pick-ups, running off a generator. Big boom box cranking out Marley. Grills going, booze flowing looked like a Pagan holiday, I was so jealous. I am drinking cold cofee , eating cold pizza,staying awake all nite. I drive past them again at dawn, all sprawled out sleeping in the sand. . . ( sigh ). . . Googans do it right.