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| Any superstitions out there? (socks, what you eat ECT) |
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Location: Minnesota | Make sure to never have the net ready to go. |
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| The wrong hat can ruin an otherwise perfect day fishing. I had such a hat. Every time I wore that hat something day-ending happened. Bad weather, injuries, broken trolling motors, reels coming apart... It got so bad I finally shot it. Had a buddy mention to me a long time ago that I was wearing the same shirt in a bunch of my fishing pictures. I never noticed that. I had many fishing shirts that I wore regularly but that particular shirt showed up in about 80% of my pictures. |
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| Speaking of hats: I have a rotation of 6 or 7 (out of about 100 hats) that have been lucky hats at one time or another. None have ever been THE lucky hat though. So the trick is to determine which will be the lucky hat on any particular outing. Always bring at least 3 on any multi-day outings. |
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| It is not my superstition but twice I have been out and run into the “no bananas on the boat” rule. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I have an aging Lund Boats hat that has some mojo. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | I'm not superstitious nothing ever happened to me because of superstition ........knock on wood |
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Location: West Central WI | When I was a kid, I remember the saying, "Step on a crack, break your mother's back." I would walk to school and avoid all sidewalk cracks until one day it dawned on me that it was just plain wrong. I started stepping on all the cracks until I broke myself of the superstition. Here I am at 73 and my mother is 93 with a good back. Now, lucky shirts and hats are another thing all together. With a low percentage fish, no reason to take a chance on that.
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Location: NW WI | Yet another for hats, 3 Different hats, each applied to certain water/technique.
Also, only on 1 system I renamed "Ventdetta" due to countless heartbreaks; I listen to 2 songs every time on my way there. KING 810-"Wartime" and "Vendettas" and it's the only place I smoke a good cigar at while I'm fishing.
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Location: Northern Illinois | JHC - 7/17/2022 2:36 PM
It is not my superstition but twice I have been out and run into the “no bananas on the boat” rule.
I've always wondered how that one started. One that the legendary Homer LeBlanc believed in. |
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Location: E. Tenn | RLSea - 7/17/2022 7:53 PM
JHC - 7/17/2022 2:36 PM
It is not my superstition but twice I have been out and run into the “no bananas on the boat” rule.
I've always wondered how that one started. One that the legendary Homer LeBlanc believed in.
Apparently. It not only goes way back, but may have some factual basis.
https://www.hubbardsmarina.com/bananas-bad-luck-on-a-boat/ |
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| My dad had a hat from a dive bar up in the mountains (The Buck Snot) that was lucky for him and one time we had lunch at the Sting Ray in Minocqua and left it. Then the next day "where's my hat" So we drove back and they had it. He was a happy guy that day. He also had a pair of Skechers my nephew got him we still have them but I can't wear them (size 11's ) He was on a roll one trip so I had them on top of the refrigerator in the cabin I knew he find them because I put them next to the coffee pot. I have a hat the first time I wore it I caught my largest fish. I does me no good most the year I caught my fish in late October even if I fold up the ear flaps. My dad has passed but I still have his shoes and hat.
One of our dear fishing friends passed and one of his daughters put his lucky hat on his coffin at the wake and dad and I laughed because John (Bud as we called him) had a full head of hair and never I mean never wore a hat. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I can vouch for the banana theory of disaster. I had a newbie on my boat at my favorite lake. I was raising fish at every spot, but nothing would connect, and a few that did were lost. After seven such happenings, we stopped for lunch and he asked if I wanted one of his bananas.
After the fruit left the boat, I got a mid-30's. m
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| Seeing a lone shoe/boot in the road in the way to the lake is bad luck. Seeing the match further up the road is great luck.
While idling away from put-in toss a silver coin in the air and say "To the Lady of the Lake." before it hits the water.
While idling away from put-in dip your net in the water. The fish will feel more comfortable entering the net, familiar water.
Never miss an opportunity to grab trash from the water and pick up trash at the landing. I even scoop litter off the lake bottom if I can reach it. The Lady of the Lake favors folks who care for the water and critters.
Don't worry if your hospital-type urinal flies out of your boat on the way to the lake. It's not lost; it will ALWAYS be on the side of the road on your way home. Nobody will pick it up, I promise.
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Location: Alexandria, MN | Offering to tow in a stranded boat builds good fishing karma. Seems nearly every time I tow someone, I end up having fishing success shortly after. Made a few friends that way, too. |
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| The story about tossing a coin in the lake reminded me of a story from the Chippewa Flowage. A friend of mine, who has since passed away, was a part time guide out of Indian Trails resort there. They had a superstition that you were to toss a penny into the lake off the dock in honor an Indian chief, who once lived in the area. My friend was having a tough time with muskies but didn't believe in the penny business, said he had caught musky before without doing that, and besides, he was still hitting on walleye. Finally, after a couple more days of musky frustration, he went down on the dock after dinner and tossed a penny into the lake. The next day he caught a musky pushing 40 lbs. |
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| Remember the River Monsters episode, where Jeremy was in Canada trying to catch a muskie? He had been having no luck for days. Wore himself out casting for hour upon hour. Then, he did a ritual offering, burning tobacco in deference to Native tradition. Went out with a spinning rod, a jig, and a minnow, just to feel a trout or smally, pull on his line. Ended up hooking and catching about a 50 incher. |
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Location: E. Tenn | TCESOX - 7/18/2022 6:41 PM
Remember the River Monsters episode, where Jeremy was in Canada trying to catch a muskie? He had been having no luck for days. Wore himself out casting for hour upon hour. Then, he did a ritual offering, burning tobacco in deference to Native tradition. Went out with a spinning rod, a jig, and a minnow, just to feel a trout or smally, pull on his line. Ended up hooking and catching about a 50 incher.
In almost every episode, like many other fishing shows.. the "big one" isn't hooked, until the last minutes, of the last hour, of the last day of the trip.. I'd be willing to bet that whole ritual was performed after the fact..
...just stirring the pot..
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Location: NW WI | Ranger - 7/18/2022 12:23 PM
Seeing a lone shoe/boot in the road in the way to the lake is bad luck. Seeing the match further up the road is great luck.
Never miss an opportunity to grab trash from the water and pick up trash at the landing. I even scoop litter off the lake bottom if I can reach it. The Lady of the Lake favors folks who care for the water and critters.
Dude, your words are eriely surreal to me, I just had this happen to me on Sunday. Except the shoes were still attached to feet on a person laying on the side of the highway spread eagle at 430am on our way to launch.(long story short) Saw 2 people on one side of the road and 4 on the other next to a person sprawled out on the gravel. Scared the person got smoked by car I pulled over and asked if he was okay. From there everything went south, stories didnt add up, they refused use of my phone and just wanted rides to places that didnt exist, very figity, the person that was laying down got up like nothing and all of them statrted walking my way. I quickly began to fear I walked into a robbery/ mugging trap. Told em I couldn't help, walked backwards back into my truck and got out of there. I should note we weren't in the safest part of the county either.
That day 3 of us ground hard and I was happy to net my coworkers 36" who only gets out a few times a year.
Upon loading the boat at the end I saw some trash in the prop.wash hole at the landing. We got loaded and secured. Than I took off my clothes to dive and get it and came back out with a 3 still sealed bottles of Gold Peak Sweet Tea. Score! |
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| miket55 - 7/18/2022 9:37 PM
TCESOX - 7/18/2022 6:41 PM
Remember the River Monsters episode, where Jeremy was in Canada trying to catch a muskie? He had been having no luck for days. Wore himself out casting for hour upon hour. Then, he did a ritual offering, burning tobacco in deference to Native tradition. Went out with a spinning rod, a jig, and a minnow, just to feel a trout or smally, pull on his line. Ended up hooking and catching about a 50 incher.
In almost every episode, like many other fishing shows.. the "big one" isn't hooked, until the last minutes, of the last hour, of the last day of the trip.. I'd be willing to bet that whole ritual was performed after the fact..
...just stirring the pot..
You probably couldn't see through the writing, that my tongue was firmly planted in my cheek. |
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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | Definitely have a lucky Simms shirt this year seeing as every fish I’ve put in the boat I’ve been wearing it. Same with I have a lucky ranger boats sweatshirt I got at a boat show for free, thing is beat up enough that it makes me look homeless but I’ve put some great fish in the boat wearing it |
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Location: WI | Like essoxaddict, I have 1 particular shirt that I'm wearing in over 1/2 the pics of me with muskies. This includes the day I got my personal best.
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Location: Alexandria, MN | I have a lucky T-shirt which I've had for over 25 years, which now has an SPF rating of about 4. |
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| I have a long sleave Green Bay Packers shirt from the 1990's with picture of Brett Favre Super Bowl Champions 1997,1968, and 1967. The only time I wear this shirt now is when I'm fishing up north and I look ahead of the weather forecast and wear it on the best looking day. |
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