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| Was wondering if any of you have superstitions while Muskie fishing?
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| Not just musky fishing, but no bananas in the boat, EVER! |
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| The banana thing is silly. One of my uncles who's well knit into many fishing circles says a lot of guys will just lose it if you even MENTION bananas while fishing. Don't eat one the same day, don't talk about them, don't even think about that stinkin' yellow-skinned fruit!
I just realized a little too late - I'm wearing the same hat in all my fish pictures this year. And I wore that hat probably less than half of the time while fishing. So I guess it's a lucky hat. |
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Location: Illinois | I have a few. My latest one, one that is holding true is my lucky fishing partner Oscar. He is my wifes dog. I can't catch a fish without him on the boat. He likes going most of the time, unless its cold, then I have to carry him on the boat. |
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Location: Lincoln, NE | The first song we play as we leave town on a trip has to be Guitar Town by Steve Earle. No yellow lighters allowed on the boat. If they aren't biting you have to make an offering to the Musky Gods by going to the marina and eating a Don Juan Gut Bomb Burrito and a Monster Energy Drink. It galvanizes your guts and you'll get a Musky. |
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| Absolutly no BANANAS!! was my first thought as well. lucky necklace, lucky hat-which has super glue on the edges. seems last 2 years the only time i can catch anything is to have my wife and oldest son in the boat as a netman. unfortunatly they are not coming with next weekend so we will see if that one will hold true. |
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| jaultman - 10/6/2014 8:05 AM
The banana thing is silly. are you the type of person who steps on every crack, walks under a ladder, and crosses a black cat's path?  |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | I was thinking about sacrificing a goat on the Wednesday night league, but then we caught a fish. Never did the banana thing but my salmon fishing buddy has them in the boat all the time. "No wonder we can't catch a salmon" he's nickname is "One fish Timon"!
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Location: oswego, il | I am not really superstitious but I have fished with two people who offer to the musky gods, one tosses a chocolate donut into the water and the other a dime with a wish. At work we don't mention account names because when we do, they call in. |
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| Every time I catch one I let it go ! |
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| You can't look at pics of fish you just caught till we get in the truck. That's a jinx, you won't catch another if you do.We always roll up to the launch cranking peter frampton "do you feel like I do"and let it crank while prepping the boat for launch.after were on the water we always tip our bottles and give a little sacrifice to the Muskie gods.After a fish we have to take a pull of the bottle of stiff stuff and dump a little sip on the river for "Larry". |
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| I ate a banana on saturday morning and caught a 48 incher, so i'm sticking with the bananas |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Lucky hat 2 of them one if it's raining.
Start the year with a new light coloured hat ( wear black all winter ) if I catch a muskie that's the hat if not try a different one next outing till I boat the years first fish. That hat is only used for fishing. My son in law gave me a waterproof DU hat I wear in the rain and I've caught fish wearing it so it must be OK. I have a orange T shirt I wear for tough times and an Operation Muskie shirt i quite like but I'm not superstitious .
Nothing has happened to me because of superstition.........Knock on Wood
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Location: Walker, MN | I always drink blue Power-aid Zero when I need to bust a slump and it usually works.
I'm not superstitious...just a little 'stitious! |
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| My latest one is i seem to catch muskies when wearing plaid. So that's gonna keep happening. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | I usually like to go fishing as much as I can! That usually gets me a fish |
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Location: Hayward, WI | horsehunter - 10/6/2014 9:58 AM
Nothing has happened to me because of superstition.........Knock on Wood
Funny! Subtle, but funny.
I don't believe or have any superstitions, but sometimes we joke about things like we have them. My Dad has brought bananas in the boat before. I can't remember if we caught fish those days, but the boat didn't sink and we didn't get struck by lightning. |
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| I always have on some type of Nebraska gear on when I catch one so that must be my lucky charm. Also, I enjoy a banana before going out and don't recall it adversely effecting the fishing. |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | With the colder weather coming i caught my fist fish with the hand me down from the 70's MN gopher winter hat with the fuzz ball on top. That's my hat tell its to hot to wear again.
Also have never heard of the banana superstition, but don't eat many bananas.....still don't catch fish.....hmmm |
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| Captain - 10/6/2014 8:50 AM
jaultman - 10/6/2014 8:05 AM
The banana thing is silly. are you the type of person who steps on every crack, walks under a ladder, and crosses a black cat's path? :- )
I have to start every day with that exact routine, otherwise, I shutter to even think of the bad luck that would most certainly result. |
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Location: Canada | As soon as we launch the boat we wet the net. We've been doing this for years. |
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| joncraze - 10/6/2014 10:28 AM
My latest one is i seem to catch muskies when wearing plaid. So that's gonna keep happening.[/QUOTE
Ahhhh....someone else has also made the musky- plaid connection |
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| If I see or hit a skunk on the way to the lake is very bad luck. Might as well turn around and head home. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | My buddies and I heard "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" on the way out to the river and had our best day ever. Now we listen to every time before we launch. Kind of a weird song to listen to before you go out on a boat. Another buddy says if you hear "today" by the smashing pumpkins on the radio on the way out you re gonna have a good day. |
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| Hats. I have my lucky hat. I can't fish without it. My worst day ever thread? Different hat. I have a hat that will guarantee you a downpour. I have an evil hat. I had 15 fishless days in a row wearing that hat. I gave it to Samantha, thinking she'd have better luck with it. She wore it a few times on a trip and had a run of bad luck including falling in the boat and banging up her leg, and a bad case of the monthlies that was over a week early. Not to mention 95 degree weather and two straight days without a fish in the boat. I still have the hat. I was going to throw it in the street, stomp on the gas and do a giant burnout over it, but I was afraid it would infect my truck. I thought about shooting it. I was going to douse it in gas and set it on fire, but that didn't seem like enough, either. So I think the plan now is we're going to take it out on an island somewhere and blow it up. Anybody know a better way to kill an evil hat?
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Location: Lake St.Clair | Have to eat a honey cruller with the musky gods one for me and one for them! |
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| Long story...
There's an island on Eagle Lake called Smitty's Island. Some of you probably know of it. Smitty was a guide on Eagle. I'm not sure when he passed or how, but his friends put up a Canadian flag on the island where he caught his largest fish. Last time we were fishing that area, we went past and noticed that some joker had turned the flag upside down. That's just not right... So we beached the boat and fixed the flag, paid our reverence to Smitty, and went on about our fishing. We put 5 in the boat up to 47" in the next two hours. It got me to thinking about a few other times where we went out of our way to go pick up a piece of trash or a water bottle on the shoreline. Those seem to be the better days. We make it a point now to always leave the lake a better place than we found it, even if it's tossing a can in the trash at the landing.
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| Ha I had never heard the banana thing until this year. Now I dont even wear fruit of the loom underwear. White lighters are a no no and every time the GF is on the boat we catch a fish.
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| I don't have many things that seem to hold true, but my superstition that seems to work for me is "baptizing" my hat. It really works on new water, or if I haven't been on the water for a while. I only do this up until its around 60 outside. After that, the cold water down the back of the neck doesn't feel so good |
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| This is a true story! My buddy who averages about 18-20 fish a year brought a banana in the boat the first trip of this year. He has caught 0 muskies this year and its not for a lack of trying. I know that he will never bring a banana in his boat again. |
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Location: Eagan, MN | Ever wonder what the deal is with bananas?? I did. No clear reason exists as to how this superstition came to be, though a few more common explanations, per the Snopes website, include:
• Something about a shipload of bananas that carried some weird bacteria which killed everyone on board.
• When top-heavy ships of earlier eras would sink, precious little other than the bananas they'd carried would be found floating on the surface, thereby leaving some to conclude conveyance of the fruit itself had led to these naval mishaps.
•Spiders, snakes, and other poisonous vermin living among bananas carried in the hold would, on long haul trips, expand their horizons by infesting other parts of the ship.
•Because the speediest sailing ships were used to get bananas to their destinations before they could spoil, those attempting to fish from them never caught anything while trolling.
•Fisherman became ill after eating the fruit.
•Other fruits would spoil more quickly when bananas were being shipped along with them, causing folks to deem bananas "bad luck." (Actually, it wouldn't have been ill fate that resulted in the spoilage of other foodstuffs, but instead the ethylene gas emitted by bananas as they ripen.)
•Crew member injured by slipping on discarded banana peels.
•Fisherman misses landing the big one due to a case of "the runs" caused by bananas he'd ingested.
•Banana oil rubs off onto the hands of fisherman, thereby "spooking" the fish.
•Early anglers in Hawaii would embark upon lengthy fishing trips in dugout canoes provisioned with (along with other food items) bananas. The farther they went, the fewer the fish, causing some of them to mistake correlation for causation.
As I've gotten older and wiser (in theory), I've become more superstitious, not less. Have found that karma is real. So, I don't discount the banana aversion at all.
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| A pretty well known guide we've been out with a couple of times told us that he never brings out a measuring stick until a fish is in the net....
Got fish every time we've been out with him so i guess it works!
I've also heard the banana thing...
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| I don't believe the banana thing for a second, last morning of last years Indiana Muskie Classic, I put three bananas in my buddies boat, that they originally put in my boat. Well they wound up winning the tournament catching fish that day, bananas and all and put my boat in to second place. But I will never fish with loose change in pocket, it has to go to the Muskie Gods. |
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| See some trash in the lake, stop and pick it up. Good Karma and it will get you a fish every time. |
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Location: La Crosse, WI | Have to name your suckers, also extending the net early never works. Leave the camera at home and you're bound to catch a nice one. I guess its a good thing I don't like bananas. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | I have a superstition that I shouldn't be reading about superstitions... I'm screwed..
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Location: MN | No yellow lighters is my biggest one. No bananas. Check out the link. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EKU0ex2yN7s
Also don't say something stupid like "I haven't lost a fish all season". If you do knock on wood. Lot a fish that was an easy 50+ this year because of that one. |
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| Turn your Go Pro off after wearing it for 10 hours and you will catch a beauty in a figure 8 in ultra clear water. |
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Location: Des Moines IA | I keep a lucky four leaf clover in my tackle box. Fished Leech 10/3 thru 10/5 weather was @#$%. I almost threw the clover out Saturday. Sunday the clover came threw or maybe it was the Bourbon Toast to the Musky Gods? |
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| Pile everything possible on top of the net so it's a bear to get out if you have a fish on. Works every time.
When fishing on a familiar body of water with someone who has never fished there before make some bait suggestions for him/her to use. If he/she considers one but uses something different, use the one they first considered. Chances are you'll at the very least get a follow. It peees a fishing partner off but it tends to work ridiculously well. |
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| Coors lights are good and bananas are bad |
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| Make your longest/best cast. Just as the bait touches the water, your partner will hook up boat side. |
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| I have a foolproof method of scoring a fish. Let your wife/girlfriend pick something out of your tackle box. It will cost you a lure, but it's worth it in the end. |
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Location: Alexandria, MN | Most of the guys in our group have a "lucky" t-shirt they wear when they need a little extra mojo. I've had mine for over 20 years. It's so thin it has an SPF of about 4. |
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| Seeing a lone tennis shoe on the road to the lake is very bad. Seeing the second tennis shoe further down the road turns things all around.
Dip the net at the landing so the fish will swim into familiar water.
Heading out from the landing, flip a silver coin in the air and say "To the Lady of the Lake" before it hits the water.
Never not stop to grab litter. Do it casually; the Lady of the Lake already knows our fate but you might amuse her for a moment and so gain favor. |
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Location: Ontario | Dozen donuts in the boat will always seal the deal! |
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Location: Sussex, NJ | Good karma is true and muskies LOVE slipknot. Proven fact |
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| I've got a musky shirt from Cabelas with a hole in the front of it. I made the hole by yanking a lure back from a limb it was hung on and the lure flew back and the hook hung in my abdomen. Cost me a hundred bucks after insurance to get it taken out.
I thought that was my unlucky shirt, but, since then I have caught a few muskies while wearing it, so now I think of it as my lucky shirt. Plus, it reminds me to be careful with hooks every time I wear it. |
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| When I get to Eagle Lake, I go down to the pier, stick my hands in the water, "feel" the water between my thumb and fingers, and then pour the water out as I stand up. I didn't know why I started doing it, but then later came to realize I must have been subconsciously imitating what Maximus (Russell Crow) does in the movie Gladiator before he goes into a battle (though he does it with the soil).
And my favorite, at some point during the night before we leave for home and after the truck is packed and my buddies have gone to bed (cause we gotta get up early the next AM to drive home), I go back down to the pier by myself and reflect upon everything that happened in the prior week(s) while we were up there. The ups, the downs, etc. I take my hat off, ponder a few personal thoughts and thanks, and then tell Eagle Lake that I will miss her and be back as soon as I can...
Not sure if that's superstitious or just reverence for the resource and this wonderful thing called Musky fishing that we all do, BUT I know I feel like I'd have bad karma up there if I didn't do these things. I guess I'm a little crazy...
(BTW, I also agree with those who stop to take garbage or whatever out of the lake. I do that do, and believe it makes the lake "smile upon us"...)
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| Not taking my wife's Dad! |
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Location: On the O | My buddy and I talked about this thread on Friday and he caught his PB after dipping the net and prayer to Our Lady of the Muskellunge, so I knew it was time to step it up and put on a new lucky hat my kids bought me as a joke. New PB 53 x 22.
I love this site!
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