Mike, I'm not saying use a peel next time you fish Hali's. I saw it done with disbelief years ago.
But your right.
I have been cutting whole banana peels to look like hoochies and rigging them on a pair of hooks like you would any plastic sqiud just to go anti-superstition. It's just something to get a laugh out of my guests.
When those things are on the feed and concentrated, they'll bite virtually any thing. And I've found some weird stuff they'll bite and have found some equally strange stuff in 'em.