Boating and Fishing Pet Peeves… Damn Googans!!!

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Oh boy… I have a list….. but not sure which one to start with… a fresh one from my last trip. (And yes… I know I do not own the water, but these are just common courtesy)

If someone is fishing the port wall and is fairly close to the wall, please do not go between them and the wall as you are just passing through on a joy ride. Swing around the outer area

If you are coming up to a known shallow fishing hole that people are already sitting on… don’t roll into or on top of the hole at 40 knots and leave your motor running! Or don’t slam the motor into full throttle forward and back into reverse 20 times until you feel you are perfectly positioned! All the fish will be fine at this point. Kill the engine well before you get there and drift into or use your trolling motor to get into position.

If you see a boat cruising at around 7mph with multiple heavily bent rods out the back or side, they are probably trolling for Spanish or the likes. Please do not decide to cut across the back of their boat and within 20yrds of them, as you will be cutting their lines, wrapping your prop with line and losing them $25+ in tackle, per line cut. Pay attention and be courteous giving plenty of space to avoid their lines.
 
kcult said:
I would like to empathize, but poors don't have these kinds of problems.
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10/4… here’s one for the poors, like myself. when I am not on my refugee looking raft of a boat and I am fishing from the bank, kicked back enjoying a cold beverage (not Bud Light).. it is preferable that you don’t use my cork as a slalom buoy when skiing or jet skiing. Give some space to the fishermen on the bank.
 
chiefjason said:
Doing laps wake surfing a cove when you are in a kayak. Think I'll go home now.
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FIFY. Wake surfing setups are the absolute worst. They drag along in a narrow waterway at 10 MPH and you do NOT want to try & pass one - if you value your boat. They need their own designated areas away from coves and narrow transit channels.
 
Back when I lived at the coast, I used to do a lot of surf fishing in inlets and the intercoastal waterway. Now and then some jackleg on a jetski would decide that it was his mission in life to ruin my fishing by intentionally doing tricks and reving up his ski and what not directly over my bait. I found that the cure for that was to remove my hooks, and show them just how accurately I could cast a 3 ounce round bottom sinker. Have fun buffing that ding out of your polaris!
 
I always felt it was quite rude when bass fishermen cast into my decoy spread while I was duck hunting.

People water skiing too close to my fishing boat would only do it once when I indicated that I was about to cast a big plug bristling with large treble hooks across their tow rope.
 
Charlie said:
I always felt it was quite rude when bass fishermen cast into my decoy spread while I was duck hunting.

People water skiing too close to my fishing boat would only do it once when I indicated that I was about to cast a big plug bristling with large treble hooks across their tow rope.
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When I lived out in CA I used to fish the CA Delta a lot. It’s basically hundreds of miles of canals, flooded fields, river channels and chaos. I went around a bend one morning about 40 MPH and ran right through someone’s decoy. Heard them hitting the hull. I felt kinda bad, and was hoping not to get shot at. But that was a stupid place for someone to set up their decoy’s. I’d bet I wasn‘t the only one to mess with their hunting that day.
 
Not pertaining to fishing, but my brother, nephew and me used to rabbit hunt the barrier islands below the Wrightsville Beach boatramp on the Intercoastal Waterway. We used a johnboat and would anchor at the island and keep an eye out for the tide. One day we were headed back to the boat to load up and leave and this man on an approx. 28' boat was moving very fast down the waterway and did not slow down for our johnboat. It only took-on about 15 or 20 gallons of water from the wakes, but we were able to bailout. But I found out my brother knew the guy and called his name multiple times, Son of a Bitch😆
 
Below is a pic, from a past fishing trip, of our target species (homo sapien dickheadamus non-boatermus: AKA Googan). These creatures have exponentially multiplied since the start of 2020.

Back story on this one… early March fishing for speckled trout, last year. It’s cold out. Beautiful day. Not many people on the water and certainly not where I was at. I rolled up to this spot and shut the engine about 50yrds out. Used the trolling motor to sneak up on the spot, as there are at times, folks fishing from the bank as you round the corner or from the bridge. As I rounded the corner, there was a guy fishing from the bank (he actually thanked me for killing the engine so far back, as to not scare the trout, that are already hard to catch on the cold). I passed around him on the far side and slid into my spot against the bank. Based on the pic, bank guys is to my left out of the pic and there is an impassable bridge to my right out of the pic. Me and bank guy are kicked back, mud minnows on the bottom, waiting for a trout to bite… as they hold up here in the winter… creek goes from 5’-6’ to 11’-13’ inn this area. 15 min go by and you can hear a boat motoring in… and fly info around the corner is this Googan! He’s doing @ 15mph, with two lines out the back trolling!! Who trolls in a creek at 15mph, in the winter??? Needless to say.. directly cross the creek from me on the opposite bank, just below the surface is a sunk boat, about 30’ in length. He hits that boat and looks like a cowboy riding a bull at a rodeo… just about knocked him out of the boat! He recovered, only to hear his line stripping of the spools as both line hung up on the sunk boat. This pic is of him trying to un-snag his trolling lines. Bank guy was pissed and would have most likely whipped him with his fishing pole if he were on our side of the creek! Don’t be this Googan! If you are or know this guy.... you or he is a jackwagon!! lol

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Charlie said:
I always felt it was quite rude when bass fishermen cast into my decoy spread while I was duck hunting.
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This is one I truly go out of my way to be courteous about. I fish the Pamlico heavily, near a lot of impoundments. I actually stay away from some of my very productive spots during duck season and will go out of my way into the open water, to get to other spots, to make sure I don’t wreck someone’s duck hunt.
 
Pop N Shots said:
Below is a pic, from a past fishing trip, of our target species (homo sapien dickheadamus non-boatermus: AKA Googan). These creatures have exponentially multiplied since the start of 2020.

Back story on this one… early March fishing for speckled trout, last year. It’s cold out. Beautiful day. Not many people on the water and certainly not where I was at. I rolled up to this spot and shut the engine about 50yrds out. Used the trolling motor to sneak up on the spot, as there are at times, folks fishing from the bank as you round the corner or from the bridge. As I rounded the corner, there was a guy fishing from the bank (he actually thanked me for killing the engine so far back, as to not scare the trout, that are already hard to catch on the cold). I passed around him on the far side and slid into my spot against the bank. Based on the pic, bank guys is to my left out of the pic and there is an impassable bridge to my right out of the pic. Me and bank guy are kicked back, mud minnows on the bottom, waiting for a trout to bite… as they hold up here in the winter… creek goes from 5’-6’ to 11’-13’ inn this area. 15 min go by and you can hear a boat motoring in… and fly info around the corner is this Googan! He’s doing @ 15mph, with two lines out the back trolling!! Who trolls in a creek at 15mph, in the winter??? Needless to say.. directly cross the creek from me on the opposite bank, just below the surface is a sunk boat, about 30’ in length. He hits that boat and looks like a cowboy riding a bull at a rodeo… just about knocked him out of the boat! He recovered, only to hear his line stripping of the spools as both line hung up on the sunk boat. This pic is of him trying to un-snag his trolling lines. Bank guy was pissed and would have most likely whipped him with his fishing pole if he were on our side of the creek! Don’t be this Googan! If you are or know this guy.... you or he is a jackwagon!! lol

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I gotta be honest, none of that really reads like a googan. If he didn't know the area, how was he supposed to know you were there? Was this in a no-wake zone? He drove his boat down the river faster than you would have, then hit a submerged obstacle. Sounds like he had a much worse day than you did.
 
GoWolfpack said:
I gotta be honest, none of that really reads like a googan. If he didn't know the area, how was he supposed to know you were there? Was this in a no-wake zone? He drove his boat down the river faster than you would have, then hit a submerged obstacle. Sounds like he had a much worse day than you did.
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I can see your point.. but one should know where they are going when out on the water and not drive blindly. There are many shoals and shallows that can be avoided by looking at depth charts and the like. He would have also known there was a bridge there too. Would you race down a mountain pass, having never been down it before? Also, his fishing technique was not conducive to the area or the fish that would be there. Know before you go…
 
GoWolfpack said:
I gotta be honest, none of that really reads like a googan. If he didn't know the area, how was he supposed to know you were there? Was this in a no-wake zone? He drove his boat down the river faster than you would have, then hit a submerged obstacle. Sounds like he had a much worse day than you did.
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You have a point, the fishermen being around a bend out of sight and if there were in a no wake zone. But it really sounds like the guy had no clue about what he was doing. Part of being safe on the water is doing your homework. Knowing the depths and hazards is critical to boating in general. Especially in tidal waters were the waters change often.
 
Beef15 said:
Aww the water. I try real hard to remember everyone has as much right to enjoy it however they see fit as me. Wake boats and many jet make it pretty hard.
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Agreed on both points. For these reasons, I tend to stay away from the lake on the weekends, during boating season. I am fortunate that my schedule allows me to hit the lake during the week, so I get my time in and I don’t get in the way of those that can only use their wake boats / jet ski on the weekend. Win Win
 
Pop N Shots said:
Agreed on both points. For these reasons, I tend to stay away from the lake on the weekends, during boating season. I am fortunate that my schedule allows me to hit the lake during the week, so I get my time in and I don’t get in the way of those that can only use their wake boats / jet ski on the weekend. Win Win
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If I were a retired person and had a boat, you couldn't pay me to go out on weekends. Googan or not, there's too many people out.

I enjoy a bit of the spectacle that is The Hull Truth, and one thing I've learned is that "googan" is the label for "somebody who doesn't act just like me". I think that to call someone a name like that requires an element of malicious ignorance that isn't always present. Driving over someone's lines while they're trolling, banging into someone else's boat when docking, wasting a bunch of time holding up the line at the boat ramp, that's a googan.
 
PWC's are as bad if not worse as any boaters, some people just don't deserve to be on the water much less own a boat or PWC. I fish from a kayak which makes it twice as bad.
 
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