I fished with a guy who happened to bring an entire bunch of bananas. Fortunately, I found them while rooting through his cooler and tossed them overboard. Man, was he pissed. He scoffed at me when I told him the superstition. By the end of the day, I had hooked double digits of coho and he hadn't touched a fish. Personally, I think the fish Glubs penalized him for the nanners, and I was rewarded for tossing them overboard.

On the other hand, I've fished with Quinault Guide Robbin Rhoades who routinely eats nanners while fishing. He told me the trick was to let the nanners ripen up a bit and to feed a chunk to a crow. Once you do that, you won't get bit by the nanner curse. He caught fish that day, so that tribal secret must have worked.

Funny stuff.

Just don't have any nanners with you if you fish with Bob. Matter of fact, don't even wear a yellow rain coat or yellow rain pants!

I just say "No" to bananners.