I was on a float trip a few months ago  and stoped for lunch when I was done I wanted A little something  More!  So looking through my ice-chest I find the perfect Item: A  Perfect Banana-  Nice and ripe and everything !  But there was a problem: the guide tells me there's no bananas allowed in his boat! He said they are bad luck, and he wanted them gone and right now.  You have got to be kidding me right? Nope  He was not kidding.  Futhermore he wanted it out of his boat  and not later. Right now ! So out of the boat they went and nothing more was said.  We finnished the day  and I didn't think of it again. Till last weekend--  Me and otter are on the Yuba  getting ready to hit the water  and I want a snack. Let me see ? Hmm ....Oh Look a Banana! So out comes the Banana and here we go again! Otter tells me Bananas are bad luck. Well Im having my Banana ! And Thats That Maybe even two of them! So I did ! And I had One of the best Days Fishing the Yuba  I have ever had-one fish Breaking 19 or 20 inches! My  Theory: One banana is certainly bad luck; Two is good for the fishing.    <@)))><  Richard OUT
I have a sticker from the Eureka fly shop that says "no bananas in the boat" Steelhead anglers are superstitious anyways but something to do with the potassium on your fingers when you tie the fly on. Potassium is acidic and therefore the fish will hit it and quit it. That may be a bunch of bullroar cuz one of the locs I fish with eats a couple before fishing to prevent leg cramps and hammers fish everytime.Â
Bannanas + Boats = Bad luck. Period!!!DOn't know about when you go walking and wading, but on boats bannanas are a big no go pretty mich everywhere i have been fishing in the world!!!!
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"Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn." - Anon.
I remember a Fly Shop guide actually forbidding my friend and I from bringing bananas on his drift boat. I was like: "Are you serious dude?" Yes he was. I was ready to launch into a sarcastic examination of what fruits he found acceptable, but decided that I would rather not swim down the river.
The superstitions on the Bananas and Boats dates back to the sailing days when the banana's that were brought back onto the ship had deadly spiders hiding in the bunches and what was worse was that the bananas would give off an ethylene gas or ethyl ester gas that would ripen the other fruit on board, such as the citrus fruits, and cause them to spoil faster. Sailors would more likely get scurvy due to lack of vitamin C and have less food to eat and become malnourished. No one wants to be a Scurvy Dog on a boat. That said, I don't know a hard core boat owner that will allow a banana on his boat. My cousin for my first trip on his boat would not leave the dock unless we ate or tossed the banana's and for his own superstition for us to eat the donuts we brought for snacks/breakfast...A donut equals a big Zero. We limited with ten salmon for 5 to near 50lbs (averaging 30lbs) that day off of Rocky Point, Marin coast in 2002...Epic Day...and NO Banana's, except for the 5 ABC's on board.
   <@)))><  Richard OUT
