Do you believe in Fishing Superstitions?

I agree on the pee and sandwich thing. I took out a sandwich after it got slow and halfway through it my pole get hit by a striper. The worst time is when your in the middle of handling your business...grrrr! 

As per the majority of the comments, I'm not really superstitious in my day to day life however, I eat my bananas before I hit the water; I don't like to promise the wife or friends fish before I go on a fishing excursion. The latter, kills the bite everytime for me
Don

ALWAYS...

 Kiss first LMB of the year and smear fish slim on face before releasing... 

 and if bite is slow, call Frankfishing....

  works every time.... 

I was told it is always bad luck to believe in fishing superstitions.

HB

IMO: believing in fishing superstitions is just a fisherman's excuse as to why he got skunked that day  

I think that at the end of the day, a skunked fishermen should just drop the excuse and appreciate the fact they got to go fishing in the first place  Putting the blame on a banana is lame...but that's just my opinion.

Posing for pics with bananas in your mouth isn't superstition....it should just be common sense : )

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I wanted to open this discussion up. I've never been a superstitious persons but after many years of fishing
I can't help but believe certain ones.

What do you think? L.A

After your last fishing report, I believe anything you believe.  I do have my good luck Nike hat, though it doesn't seem to be helping Tiger Woods much lately.  I also have my good luck Shark Shield and EPIRB just in case. I know guys who release the first fish they catch. Since I often only catch one fish, I can't believe in that superstition. Actually, fishing is 50% skill and 50% luck. I think positive attitude also adds to increase hookups. The really great anglers I know really believe they are going to catch big fish every trip. Superstitions for some help create a positive attitude which is why they sometimes work, IMO. For hacks like me, I just try to improve my knowledge and skills and don't worry about superstition. Will be bringing a banana with me tomorrow and will see how things go. 

I put a fatty herring down on the bottom hooked up on a barbless mooching rig behind a 6 ounce banana.  I was getting a drink of water and just gathering myself up for a somewhat disappointing end of a long day trying when, just like magic, I was on! 

42" or so and probably 35 pounds.  First halibut I've ever caught.

Booyah 

There's always a small part of me that is superstitious, so I always carry around a piece of wood to knock on whenever I want 

I always wear a necklace through the season.
Started with a glass bead rasta choker I wore for the first time on a charter trip and picked up both a 23# halibut plus a 10# WSB.
The next few seasons I wore a walrus tooth with a kayaker scrimshawed on it, then eventually went to a homemade abalone piece that I wear today. I had it on the day BMB, Aaron and I got scoped out on the SMC and I lived to tell about it.

The next trip out I forgot it, had to make a U turn & go home for it . 

I can't say that the "mojo' always works, but I find it gives me a baseline for the day's mental exercises.

I also don't like to fish with sunscreen or heavily scented soap on my hands which probably does more

I think the history of fishing superstitions is kind of fun, feels like it ties me into the thousands of years human-type animals have been pursuing fish to eat.

I wanted to open this discussion up. I've never been a superstitious persons but after many years of fishing
I can't help but believe certain ones.

What do you think? L.A

After your last fishing report, I believe anything you believe.  I do have my good luck Nike hat, though it doesn't seem to be helping Tiger Woods much lately.  I also have my good luck Shark Shield and EPIRB just in case. I know guys who release the first fish they catch. Since I often only catch one fish, I can't believe in that superstition. Actually, fishing is 50% skill and 50% luck. I think positive attitude also adds to increase hookups. The really great anglers I know really believe they are going to catch big fish every trip. Superstitions for some help create a positive attitude which is why they sometimes work, IMO. For hacks like me, I just try to improve my knowledge and skills and don't worry about superstition. Will be bringing a banana with me tomorrow and will see how things go. 

I would agree that attitude is the biggest game changer. If you believe you're gonna catch fish, you catch fish! If believe and you skunk big time, it just sucks that much more and add insult to injury. 

     Lucky charms,   bananas,,,   Hooey.          It's Skill    combined  with dumb luck.

This one is bang on dead true, no doubt.  If the bite is slow, leave your rig in the water, stop to take a piss or eat a sandwich and you will get hooked up.  It's one of those indisputable laws of the universe, right up there with f = ma.

Heck yeah to this one. I've seen it play out so many times. Especially on a slow salmon trip eating a sandwich or taking a leak can really turn the bite around.

If that doesn't work then try both at the same time!  (different hands of course)

The other one is the cooler trick. It's generally best not to bring an especially large cooler with ice in it because it virtually guarantees that you won't be needing it.

-Eliot

i eaten a banana on EVERY TRIP i've ever been on.......so toss that one of the yak!!  
Lucky 7 twists of the line on my go-to-knot does it every time!

Well... Sort of    I share a few of these beliefs I guess, such as not bringing a cooler if you want to catch fish, and if I bring a scale I'm almost assured i'll be weighing someone ELSE'S fish not my own.  If I bring a cooler it better be for beer not fish    Aside from these two things, not really into superstitions.  Especially ones that make no sense at all to me, like the banana thing  However there are some others that I take on such as last year I didn't shave for the last four months and grew a beard.  But I feel like this type of superstition has more of an effect on your focus for fishing, not your luck while fishing.  It's like keeping a reminder, rather than seeking luck.