thill,
I don't let superstitions rule me...quite the opposite...I try to buck the trend so to speak. However, on most of my past fishing trips, last one being a BIG exception, if I caught a fish on the first cast, it often resulted in a day that was less than spectacular.
My theory is that many people just don't pay particular attention to how many fish they catch or try to rate the type of day they had...they're just glad to be out on the water...and that's the way it should be. But on those days when you catch a fish immediately, you instantly establish a benchmark of "a fish a cast" and therefore almost anything less is downhill from there.
I scoff at superstitions! But I have been know to throw perfectly good bananas out of a boat
and if you see a butterfly, you're sure to catch a nice fish.
I really believe that if you fish with an Iron Man you're sure to stumble into a blueberry patch!
