Bananas (Poll)

[Fish Hawg]

How many think bananas are bad luck? I personally hooked My biggest URB (38#) wheil eating a Banana. I have also had several 6-7 springers landed, and other takedowns in a day with bananas in the boat.( it could Be the banana oil Mr.Carp and I use :grin: ) I think It is a Myth.

Do you think Bananas are bad luck(or are you just blaming Them for your bad Luck :tongue: )?

[ 03-05-2004, 01:55 PM: Message edited by: Fish Hawg ]

[Hardware]

Man, what is this banana thing? Seriously, in the last few years i have had so many days where guys say "oh no you brought a banana" and our boat outfishes all. i don't get it...

I've brought bananas fishing just about everytime for 30 years. What's next peanut butter and jelly makes your graphite crack? Is there any "science" or rational behind this?

[David Johnson]

No problems here.

[Boatdog]

I have heard the same concerns over fried chicken as well.

What IS the "science" related to banana's? :whazzup:

[El-Kabong]

First time I heard it was a lame excuse from a guide who was busy working an entire boat into a skunk day.

Next time I heard it was from a guide who was busy working an entire boat into a skunk day.

same guide both times. I guess I need to choose better guides!

[RogueFishr]

I don't believe it. I eat bananas almost every time I go out early (quick breakfast). I have never had a problem.

RF

[grandsalami]

supposedly the Potassium found in the bananna strongly repels the fish.

[David Johnson]

No science to the banana, just supperstition. But the chicken. That greese and fat can turn off the bite, I avoid all greasy, oily or strong foods as they last on your hands a long time.

[ 03-05-2004, 02:23 PM: Message edited by: David Johnson ]

[Danderson]

Ask Grant About his Experience with Bannana's... I believe they are banned from his boat.

[Sir Fishalot]

Here's a newbie question... What does URB stand for? I've heard Up River Bright and Ultra Real Bright.

[Fish Hawg]

Awesome Pictures Dave, [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]

[FishBowl]

Ya Grant something to do with swimming I beleive? correct me if I am wrong.

[timinthegorge]

The story goes.... a vessel long ago left with a load of bananas. In the bunches of banana's were poisonous spiders, and only half the crew made it home alive. Ergo, Bananas are Bad on Boats!!

It's clearly a myth, but I don't even allow banana nut bread on my boat! Does it make sense? Of course not! Do I allow banana's on my boat? NO!

[Fish Hawg]

Sir Fishalot, It used URB for Up River Bright :smile:

[Chilly one]

:grin: Bananas are good! I seem to always bring a "monkey stick" or two on my DB or my ocean craft and seem to always catch fish! Knock on wood!
Just don't foget it when u get a fish on and 1)step on it 2) sit on it!

Good catching and good eatin'!

"Happiness is a Bent Rod!"

Chillyone w/banana ps. bananas and beer not good!

[eyeFISH]

DJ

Bob Toman once told me that fish have a real aversion to fried chicken. He cringes when he sees someone break open a fried chicken lunch. Doesn't let the guy touch any of the bait when that happens. I got another guide friend who fishes Cowlitz summer runs, and he says one of the most popular summertime lunch items brought aboard is KFC. Despite this, he still manages to catch plenty of fish for his clients.

How about smoked salmon? Bellies and collars (my favorite) are especially oily... even my insensitive sniffer can still detect smoked fish on the fingers many hours later, even with repeated handwashing.

[ 03-05-2004, 03:03 PM: Message edited by: eyeFISH ]

[crabbait]

Here is the real skinny on bananas: Bananas give off a gas (ethylene) that causes other fruits and vegetables to ripen prematurely. People on long sea voyages were wise to place bananas well away from other fruits and vegetables, or leave them ashore, for fear of the whole salad rotting before their voyage was complete. That does not answer the fishing/banana superstition, however.

Actually, the banana jinx was started by Capt. Noyles Dawley, a Honolulu skipper from the '40s and '50s. It seems that he was always quick to assign every missed bite to a Marlin. He was a character and was cursed with bad luck his entire life.

For whatever reason he did not like bananas. Tourists always seemed to arrive at the boat with the fruit packed in their lunches so he figured the easiest way to ban them from the boat was to invent a Hawaiian taboo. There were no bananas aboard Capt. Dawley's boat after that and, within a few decades, no bananas on any fishing boat anywhere else in the world.

(Paraphrased from Sport Fishing Magazine - June, 2003)

[StinkyH]

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[ 03-05-2004, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: StinkyH ]

[DiveR]

great pic david
maybe you are on to something
how about a yellow K15 - they kind
of look like kwikies

[David Johnson]

Super secret springer bait.

[Premo]

Cool pics dave. Seems you have no problems with the bananas.

I have caught plenty of fish with them in the boat but also some of my worst days have had a banana in the boat I've done really well in the morning and then when it's lunch time and they break out the banana we don't touch another fish all day long. Hmmmmmm. Probably superstition.

Some other things I've noticed that the fish do not like are smoked salmon,gasoline, and especially sun screen lotion. That's why if anybody in my boat has any of these, they wash their hands well and rub them with anise.

[spinner fisher]

Hey Mr Johnson, you realize that you just sent Banana stock through the roof by exposing the secret springer bait, I just got back from the grocery store and had to wrestle the last bunch of banana's out the hands of an angry mob all for some reason wearing loomis hats and sporting raccoon eyes from polarized glass's.

[corrirod]

Well, the fried chicken thing doesn't hold up because that's my favorite on the water meal! Greasier the better! Fried chicken and jalapenos are the best combo! :shocked:

[David Johnson]

Rod, you're probably right if you're talking about ocean fish.

[SalmonSeason]

Sorry David, I accidently dropped my greasy sausage on your eggs and spilled some bacon grease on your reels...whoops sorry about your leaders they got KFC on 'em

[ampersat]

Here's my take on the banana thing in these parts:
- bananas onboard is an old superstition thing
- those who know the superstition probably had it passed to them by an old hand
- that old hand probably knew a thing or two about fishing
- that old hand probably also passed down what he knew about fishing to the younger hands onboard
- the younger hands now knew things about fishing that other folks didn't
- the younger hands didn't bring along bananas because of the superstition
- those who brought along bananas probably didn't have an old hand to show them the finesse parts about fishing
- those with bananas didn't catch (as many) fish

Ergo: bananas = bad fishing luck.
(and that's about as close to a "logic proof" as I've gotten since my philosophy classes in college)

[nipper]

I've caught everything from pelagics to panfish with bananas in the boat, but I always respect my host's belief system.

Nipper

[David Johnson]

Leave the philosophy at home. I learned from "old hands" and have always known about the superstition and said [img]graemlins/berry.gif[/img] It's better to rely on skill than luck.

[Premo]

Where is that KFC pic??

[B-run]

There was a test done on potassium with smolts in a tank, and according to the results, they fled like a buck shot duck
Take a banana on Herb Good's boat and see what happens. :shocked:

[greenbuttskunk]

david,
Good to hang with you the other night and chat
at Mickeys. So, did you wife wrap up 15 kwikfish with banana peels for you. She's a keeper. :grin:
See ya again soon I'm sure.
GBS

[ 03-06-2004, 09:55 PM: Message edited by: greenbuttskunk ]

[PharmDoc]

Originally posted by B-run:
There was a test done on potassium with smolts in a tank, and according to the results, they fled like a buck shot duck
Take a banana on Herb Good's boat and see what happens. :shocked:

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">I wonder if they did those same tests with other elements/compounds. I'll bet anything with enough concentration in a small environment like that would produce similar results. Fish where the fish are and catch fish. Fish where there aren't fish and blame what food is in your boat for the big goose egg!

[Drachir]

The number of fish caught is equal to the number of bananas in the boat. :smile:

[PharmDoc]

What are people's thoughts on bleeding one's catch in "the stream" and if/how it affects "the bite?"

[Fish Hawg]

If I am fishing a hog line I dont bleed them in the water. I bleed them in the boat and let it run down in to the bildge

[Snag]

All I know is that I played the biggest steelie of my life on a plug that had been rigged up by a guy who had just eaten a banana. Finally snapped the 12# leader after spooling me twice. I will glady join "Team Banana Peel".

[Capt'n America]

Can't really claim bananas ARE bad luck but I do have no "banana" stickers in my boat. It makes for good conversation.

[Silver Hilton]

Originally posted by David Johnson:
It's better to rely on skill than luck.

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Sure, that works for you and those that have skill. The rest of us, well, luck will have to do.

[Paddlefish]

I, for one, have actually tested portions of the Banana Banna Theorum.

First of all, I caught my biggest-ever fall chinook on a scrounged, damaged, paintless Flatfish, which I had repainted in plain ol' "banana yellow."

I advanced the theory by repainting an even larger Flatfish in the same banana yellow and adding (just about where a fruit-impaired fisherman would lasso on a sardine filet,) a bright blue Chiquita sticker. Unfortunately, before that sure salmon-killer could work its mojo, I lost it to a huge oversize (log )

Finally, I recall a cold, sunny day on the Wilson in February -- one of those days when you'd swear that steelhead don't even exist. My buddy and I had zero-for-nada all morning. I climbed up the bank and was eating my lunch on the cliff above while my buddy made a few more casts. I broke the stem off the banana in my lunch and tossed it into the middle of the pool. "Just wait", I told him. "A steelhead will come up and nail that banana stem."

I looked down to the remainder of my lunch and then I heard the splash.

A quick glance revealed that the steelie hadn't actually struck the banana stem, but that it had attacked it from below and changed its mind at the last instant, so it had rocketed through the surface and was diving toward the bottom of the river, only four inches from the dreaded, floating banana stem.

Obviously overwhelmed by the "Eat me," Bite me," "Bananalyze this," banana-fish karma.

Case closed.

[Fish Hawg]

Looks Like the majority dont think they are bad at all. Thanks to all who voted :grin: