BANANA ARTICLE

I came across this article in SEA magazine, March 2006 edition page75. This is the article as it is written.
Title : Hold the Bananas!
Try bringing a banana aboard a fishing boat, and you might be left at the dock! Why? Bananas are considered bad luck. While nobody knows for certain how this ancient superstition began, some interesting theories abound.
One notion dates back to the era of the sailing ships. To prevent scurvy, fruit was brought aboard. Because bananas spoil quickly, bug larvae would spread to other fruit. In fact, the entire ship could become infested.
Another version has it that bananas carried aboard ships often hosted black widow spiders and tarantulas. Sailors on ships so plagued often never returned from sea.

I guess when planting one on a yak the riper the better!!!!!

I've heard stories of deck hands on Hawaiian charter boats giving people a hard time for simply having "Banana Boat" brand sunscreen with them on board.

I know a guy who used to unload containers of Bananas  in Crockett and he would find all kinds of snakes hiding inside the bunches. He collected them and sold them to pet stores. Maybe that's why Mooch like them so much.

I know a guy who used to unload containers of Bananas  in Crockett and he would find all kinds of snakes hiding inside the bunches. He collected them and sold them to pet stores. Maybe that's why Mooch like them so much.

That's the worst job ever...  I'd have a friggin' heart attack.

I saw this on the boat (wild wave) salmon fishing last year.



The boat got skunked.

Before I heard about this whole hoo ha I named my kayak fishing team "The Floating Banana Brotherhood" in reference to the similarity of kayaks to bananas.

Oh well, I thought it was a cool name.

MolBasser

I know a guy who used to unload containers of Bananas  in Crockett and he would find all kinds of snakes hiding inside the bunches. He collected them and sold them to pet stores. Maybe that's why Mooch like them so much.

That's the worst job ever...  I'd have a friggin' heart attack.

AMEN TO THAT!  I'd soil myself before I'd get the heart attack - not a good way to depart from this world

Mooch tipped me off to this forum cuz he knew a little story of mine. Two years ago, I took a charted on the Queen of Hearts (HMB) for salmon. It was a full load and we were just getting ready to head out. There was this Amish guy(hat included) chewing on a banana and he began to receive unfriendly looks from other fihsherman. Finally a couple of guys started hasseling him about the banana and being pretty rude as well. I really don't think the guy spoke english but he ignored them anyways. Finally he finished the banana and threw it in the garbage against the strong opinions of the two jack-asses. Glaring at the old man, one of the jack-asses reached into the garbage, picked the banana up and threw it overboard all the while cussing under his breath.
  That day had to be the best salmon day in my life. Regulars from the Q of H still talk about that day. I ended the day with a 12lb and 8lb and felt like I was coming home skunked. The averaged was around 18lb. I'd say at least 20 fish over 20lb with a couple over thirty. I had EIGHT hook-ups. We filled both fish boxes, the front fish box ant the last two fish had to be laid out on the deck with a towel on them. No one seem to mine when the Amish guy ate a banana on the way back home.
  The look on the face of the two J A's when the Amish guy won the $125 jack pot...
                                                 PRICELESS!

After that day, I don't know how to feel about bananas.

Damit Mooch I can't catch a thing off the lure you gave me, almost got me tossed overboard. I guess I'll just have to give it back so you can use it at Elk.

hey Mickfish that lure only works at strip clubs or at the primate exhibit at your local zoo