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Hey Davey:
That banana stuff is a bunch of malarky offshore guys in Jersey use to explain their way out of skill-lessness (if that's a word). I had a boss once who inherited a Carolina accent with a Carolina boat he bought, and he was adamant about no bananas. Fact is, bananas or no, he couldn't catch his you-know-what with two hands--hence the "superstition."
Actually, a fair number of tournament billfishermen down south get wound up about bananas. Dirty trick during tournament time is to sneak a bunch of bananas into one of your biggest competitors' engine rooms.
Bananas have good potassium, and are great after 36 hours on deck at the canyons. I love 'em.
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