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05-31-2006, 02:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Bridgewater
Posts: 350
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Had a banana to eat on the boat yesterday and only a banana; and killed them.
Although that could explain the big one that got away on a broken swivel.....  |
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05-31-2006, 02:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Wakefield, RI
Posts: 32
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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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05-31-2006, 03:01 PM
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Calling Jon The Fisherman
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: The Sack Of Mass
Posts: 2,357
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I always thought it was a myth... and I have eaten bananas when fishing without detrimental effects... or at least I think it didn't have an effect  . I thought it was pretty funny though he was using the same lures and everything and couldn't raise a damn thing... poor bastid 
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05-31-2006, 04:45 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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it's an old wives tale. banannas on boats are bad luck. got something to do with the banana boats that always sunk.
same as whistling. bad luck.
i think it's bs, but who needs to piss off the fish gods.
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05-31-2006, 04:50 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
Posts: 5,659
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Funny story. One day my son and I had a newbie offshore, trolling for tuna. We went 2 hours or so after lines in without a bite. Then the guy goes into his cooler and we see bananas. So ww really start ragging on him for bringing the forbidden fruit on board. Finally he gets pissed off and throws the Bananas overboard, they didn;t get out of sight before we got coverd up by tuna. Six fish on all at once. Now I don't make fun of the old superstition.
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05-31-2006, 05:04 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Cranberry Coast Gateway 2 Cape Cod
Posts: 4,143
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2 years ago ,I was fishing with Big Pete and JR Link on my boat I was on the bow and we were drifting for bass I also had a banana and ate it while drifting , well the peel fell into the drink and came out the stern and Big Pete yelled out Who's eating F'n BANANAS needless to say I learned all about the curse of bananas on boats, Oh yea it was SKUNK for me , never again will there be a banana on my boat( I hope)
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05-31-2006, 08:00 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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I was always told that a Banana in the boat ment bad luck, how true it is one will never know
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05-31-2006, 04:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 451
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the story i heard about bananas & boats (supposedly bad luck) comes from the days of sail when boat loads of bananas held all kinds of bugs and snakes from the caribbean. the crews would end up getting bit and getting sick & dying etc....... now tuna fish sandwiches on an offshore trip- thats another story.......
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