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| How many of you believe that it's bad luck to bring bananas in the boat? Or know someone that is a believer in the curse and will do crazy things to avoid the situation from happening? I would say I don't believe in it at all. However, for some reason I intentionally won't bring bananas with me fishing. I will eat a banana at home just about every day because they are good for our health. I also think about my brother and him saying last year was his worst year fishing for muskies ever and he's been fishing them for a long time. I believe he almost always has bananas in his big fancy Yeti cooler as well :) |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I know it for a fact! Never a 'naner' in my boat again!
Fished with a fellow I'd met on the internet, took him to my favorite lake, good spots. In a matter of abt two hours I raised abt 6 hooked three more, all got off . As we were motoring to the next spot, he opens up his bag and asks if I want a banana? I shut off the motor and made him eat both of them before we went any farther. Never saw a fish after that, either. m |
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Location: Duluth | Never ever ever ever bring bananas on the boat!
Can't believe this is even a question |
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKU0ex2yN7s |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Ya gota love those guys..... that said if you bring bananas to my boat both you and your nanas are going over the side. |
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Location: oswego, il |
You beat me to it! |
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| Went on a musky hunt to Vermillion. 4 of us. 2 boats. We got their first. Others guys dropped their boat in the water and headed out. We were moving fish (and lost fish), they had no luck. When they got back in, I simply asked if they found the banana I put in their boat. Their smiling faces turned to frowns, they looked in the boat and didn't see one. Asked where I put it. I said, "Where would I hide a banana in a musky boat? I'd probably hide one in the one place that never gets used in a musky boat."
They immediately went to the livewell. Of course, I'm not pure evil, I'd never put a banana in someone's boat, but the look on their faces were priceless.
You can kid about bananas, but one should never be on board a boat.
BTW...I was worried that just kidding about it would turn the bad karma to us, but it didn't. We bagged fish. |
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| Ate a banana for lunch the day I caught my biggest fish so far. Got to prevent cramping especially in the hands! |
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| I eat a banana almost every morning. I don’t believe a nanna in the boat has any bearing on catching fish. I have gone out with BIG name guide that strictly forbids them to the point of telling us not to eat them prior to fishing with him. There is some basis for not having bananas on a boat back in the sailing the 7 seas Something to do with other fruit going bad |
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| PURE superstition! Back in the old days on ships logical reasons to avoid. On a small fishing boat out for a day or less nothing to worry about. Me and a buddy had bananas on board a few years back and were in a small pod of fishing boats jigging for fresh water stripers. We caught more fish than our buddies around us did. Maybe they had more bananas on there boats than we did I don't know. All that being said, superstition can be what you make it. If you TRULY believe bananas on your boat are a curse.....then they very well could be....just saying. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | nothing ever happened to me because of superstition ...knock on wood |
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| what about banana hammocks ? there are lakes where these are all too common. |
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Location: Minneconia | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EKU0ex2yN7s |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Insanity. Every story of a banana ruining your trip sounds exactly like every other tough trip that didn’t include bananas. |
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| A couple weeks ago I went saltwater fishing down in Florida. We get a few minutes out in the boat and the deck hand starts peeling a banana. We ask right away "isn't it bad luck to have bananas in a boat". He says he thinks its all superstition. This didn't have me feeling good about the day ahead. 15 minutes later we stop to pull two traps with bait for the day and the boat drifts over the buoy rope and it gets tangled up in the prop. They say they pull 700 crab traps a week and this never happens. I'm thinking bananas! The captain gets to the point where he has his mask and is ready to jump in then gives one last try to free the rope without jumping in. It did free and we ended up having the best day I have ever had on saltwater. Seems quite coincidental that we just get done talking about bananas and then we had the rope in the prop fiasco. It ended up ok though. |
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| Girlfriend brought a banana in the boat last year to prove me wrong about NO bananas in the boat. Didn't catch anything that day. She ended up accidentally smashing it in her bag and ruining some of her stuff.
So she agrees now NO bananas in the boat. |
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| http://miamifishing.com/bananas-and-fishing-boats There are many theories on why people believe bananas are bad luck for a boat. One superstition is that boats carrying bananas don’t catch fish. The origin of this belief dates back to the Caribbean trade of the 1700s. The wooden sailing boats of that time had to move quickly to deliver bananas before they spoiled, and fishermen had a hard time trolling for fish on such fast-moving boats, which is how the superstition came about. Another superstition that originated during that time is that bananas will cause a boat to sink. This belief developed after many boats never made it to their destinations, and all of the doomed boats were carrying bananas. I'm bad at links but I copied and pasted a paragraph from the article above.
Edited by Baby Mallard 3/9/2019 8:15 AM
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| I love the video. My son and I always tease each other about hiding a banana somewhere in the boat. Although I don't think there is any way possible for a banana to make for a bad day of fishing, I enjoy the joking with my boy. |
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| It's fun. Always an ego boost to have something to blame when things don't go well. It's the #*^@ banana it is!!
I have a buddy that I love to harass about it. "No bananas, no banana boat sunscreen, no fruit of the loom t-shirts or underwear. In fact I don't even want to see the color yellow!! You don't have a banana bait in that tackle box, do you??!"
My goal for this year? Rig up a banana peel and catch a muskie on it. Also a hot dog... No superstition there, I just want to be able to tell someone I caught a muskie on a hot dog.
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Banana BS!! Good Luck for me!! Friend Rich and I, after him eating a banana, boated 49 & 51 POUND muskies that day. Last November I got a 54.40 pounder...after eating a banana for breakfast!! Don't think I'll quit eating them any time soon!! |
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| The Banana superstitions are for people who can't adapt and catch fish! |
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| Larry Ramsell - 3/10/2019 1:11 PM
Banana BS!! Good Luck for me!! Friend Rich and I, after him eating a banana, boated 49 & 51 POUND muskies that day. Last November I got a 54.40 pounder...after eating a banana for breakfast!! Don't think I'll quit eating them any time soon!!
Larry did you consider the fact that all of that happened AFTER you got rid of the banana?  |
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Location: Athens, Ohio |
Larry did you consider the fact that all of that happened AFTER you got rid of the banana? ;)
BAW-HAHAHA!
gooder one, m |
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| Leave the bananas at home!!!!Buddy and I drove over 2 hours to make a day trip to fish walleye on Saginaw bay. On the way there he had brought a banana for breakfast and our conversation turned to how he's had bad luck on his boat with bananas on board. So, this banana wasn't to go near the boat. He never did eat the banana, it was left in his truck. After a great day of fishing on the water and with a limit of big walleye we went in. My buddy went to get the truck and trailer and I waited with the boat at the dock. I then heard my buddy started cursing up a storm. His boat trailer was stolen! Fortunately a nearby marina let him park his boat overnight and he came back the next day with a four wheeler trailer to bring his 16ft deep v aluminum boat back home. The boat barely fit and the hundred plus mile trip back was nerve racking he said. Needless to say bananas are left home on any fishing trip. |
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| Part of the legend and lore involves what bananas do as they ripen. Apparently they give off a gas that causes other fruit to ripen faster (and presumably spoil) Back in the days where produce was shipped overseas long distances I can see where that would be a problem. Another interesting tidbit: Bananas float. Going back in history, shipwrecks were not uncommon. Other sailors that happened upon these wreck sites often found bananas floating among the wreckage. Bad luck? Another interesting tidbit: Bananas as cargo, imported from tropical locations, often were infested with venomous spiders, which made their way through the ship, biting and sickening the crew. Back then they had no idea it was spiders, only that ships with bananas as cargo often found their crews stricken with mysterious illnesses. Fascinating history there.
Fished with a guide some years back who was eating a banana on the way out in the morning...
"Dude. A banana?? REALLY?"
"I like bananas! You don't really believe that #*#*, do 'ya?"
"GET RID OF THAT %&* BANANA!!!"
Said guide eats the banana tosses the peel overboard and says "Happy?!"
"As long as that nappy yellow thing is outta the boat!!"
The rest of the day, everything that went right (caught a few good fish) led to this:
"See, banana!! Bad luck, eh?"
"WHAT banana? You ate it. It's GONE. No more banana!"
Or "there's one! Ungh! Got 'em! #*#*. He got off... If you hadn't had that GD banana in the boat earlier I'd have CAUGHT that fish!"
An old friend of mine has a whole ritual with his buddies where they sacrifice a shot of whiskey to the muskie gods before they go out for the day. Another will go out of his way to pick up any trash he sees at the landing or floating in the water.
My only experience that could possibly be attributed to any sort of superstition was a day on Eagle. Long story short there's a spot named after a now deceased guide, where he caught a huge fish. Locals built a monument of sorts there in his honor, complete with a Canadian flag. We went up to the spot, which just so happens to be a great place for a lady with the monthlies to do her thing. (My wife and her uterus are a guarantee that will happen on every #*^@ trip...) We noticed that someone had turned the flag upside down. So, out of honor (that just ain't right...) we fixed it. Wife did her thing on the island. We decided to christen the island while we were there, said a few words in honor of deceased guide, and went on our way. Within 30 min we had 4 fish uo to 47" in the boat on what were basically back to back casts. Round the corner were a couple guys we all knew, putzing around getting hung up in the rocks, caught nothing. We were 100 yards away and put 6 fish in the boat that day.
Wife has her lucky fishing shirt. (#*^@ed if she doesn't catch fish every time she wears it.... WTF) Going through my pictures I have a shirt that appears over and over and over... I have a hat that I no longer wear because I've never caught a fish while wearing it, and had numerous things go wrong. I have another hat that shows up in most of my pictures that I will not leave home without. I've actually changed to that hat on bad days and caught fish afterwards for no apparent reason at all.
IMO if you don't have some fun superstitions to keep things entertaining, you're just missing out on what muskie fishing is all about.
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| Great post EA! Fun topic for winternet anyways. I think I will still leave my bananas at home just in case lol. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | No difference to me, but I am a logic based thinker. Superstition and religion have no place in my mind |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | EA: Even though the banana's were eaten, they were STILL aboard!!!
Know a local guide that is adamant about nana's...had a client bring banana bread his wife made...said guide asked to see it and drop kicked it out of the back of the boat!
Another time same guide went to pick up his clients for the day and they came out eating banana's. Said guide told them he would see them tomorrow and left! |
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| Larry Ramsell - 3/16/2019 9:35 AM
EA: Even though the banana's were eaten, they were STILL aboard!!!
Know a local guide that is adamant about nana's...had a client bring banana bread his wife made...said guide asked to see it and drop kicked it out of the back of the boat!
Another time same guide went to pick up his clients for the day and they came out eating banana's. Said guide told them he would see them tomorrow and left!
There's a guide I'd never hire again... You throw food overboard that my wife made for me, and you'll find yourself flying through the air right behind it. |
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