Thread: What is a Googan?

looked googan up in the dictionary and found this....looks familiar to me....he did get into the 30+ lb king category last year, the short time on the pier....only by luck

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Googan Story: you mean like the time I hooked a nice king north of the Octi. As I came down the rail, everyone reeled in & moved out of the way until I got right to the Octi. 3 "gentleman" there just stood there, right at the rail, lines out, and ignored me as, tried to get past them. By time I weaver my way through their lines and round them, the king turned the corner & the line went pop. They never moved. :angry:

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i got a quick one for ya, this one time i was at the GSP, a googan walked out there and started fishing with a zebco 404 and started fishing for king, i tryed at least 10 times to tell him that it wouldn't work, guess he didn't take to well to constructive criticism very well, typical, well when time came around that about a 25lb'er ate that ly, that little reel lasted about 15-20 seconds until the fish busted the shaft as well as just about every other gear in that reel, oh well, tryed to tell him but you know what, typical googans just don't listen! :violent :wall: :angry: they really do get on your nerves :run
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I was there that day and was going to tell the same story David, classic. My next one is 4 guys were fishing one day when the jacks were biting. Might be the same day David. One of the guys hooked a jack so the others followed him. Next thing you know the 3 rods they left on the rail got hit and the took off like missiles into the water. When they came back they asked John P. Where their rods were. He said "In the water." The look on their face was priceless.

lol

That reminded me of a classic 'zebco googan' back in the days on the old pier.
We tried to tell that fella he was NOT gonna catch a king mackerel on his Zebco 404 and he'd just grunt about the heavy line he had on it blah-blah-blah. :wall:

Well it turned out he hooked a BIG jack that quickly started pullin the guts out of that reel and when it froze up the reelseat broke and the reel took out all the guides on his POS rod one by one (ping, ping, ping ;-)

After it was over the dude was just standing there wide-eyed and slack-jawed with that empty rod in his hands.
Never said another word, he just packed his junk and left. :spank:

That was a priceless moment in 'googandom' :headbang: :mrt:
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I guess even a googan with a zebco has a day every now and then. oke1:

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Sometimes the "googans" catch fish. Anybody remember the guy last year who caught huge kings fishing dead bait on the bottom under the pier on the West side?

My favorite "googan" story other than the ones I write, of course, was the lady last year who just bought a brand new penn combo spooled up with momoi, who literally came out on the octi with no clue of how to cast it. Her only experience, apparently, was with a push button reel. When I suggested that she needed to go to the shallows and practice some, she rather rudely told me that she intended to catch big fish from the octi and was told that "anyone" out there would help her do it. I was lucky, she was fishing with shrimp so I told her I was deathly allergic, which is the truth.

As I left, she said, and I quote, "There's no fish in the shallows, anyway."

i love it when people say "theres no fish in the shallows."

mr harley can protest to that one. that man catches so many fish in the shallows!

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i love it when people say "theres no fish in the shallows."
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There's no fish in the shallows.

:wall: they can't cast properly, reel spinning setups upside down, look at you like you're crazy when you have a fish on and say you are coming down the rail...I could go on but this is just some of what I've experienced.

and when they cast repeatedly over your line and just stand there!!!!!!!! :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: oh my god!! i really do hate googans, think their better than us, a bounch of know it alls is exactly what they are :wall:

No doubt there is a reason God gave us 2 ears ond only one mouth. My extremely limited observation of the Googan is that he wants to run his mouth 2x the amount he listens.