Here’s the real scoop on the banana's in boats. in the 20's cargo boats brought bananas up from south America to the southern California area. As the market for bananas went down and sport fishing became more popular and more profitable many of these banana boats where converted over to party fish boats for salmon.


The banana boats where saturated with banana oil from all the tons of bananas that had been crushed in their hulls over the years. As the boats would go thru the water they would leave a oil slick behind the boat. Whether this had an effect on the fishing or if it was a bad caption the boats got a bad reap in the san acruz area and further south. So fisherman would not get on a old banana boat to go fishing and that latter become no bananas on the boat. So party boat regulars in the bay area will not let you on if you have a banana in your lunch box. I once eat a banana on a friends boat and he damm near thru me from the boat. But Iam faster and he went in the water instead of me. Anyhow that’s the story as I got it.