hey guys on a lighter note had a question of the origins of NOT takin bananas out on driftboats with ya. Up till now I've just taken it for the common thing to do don't take a banana out on driftboat. But my nieghbor went out with me and I being the foolish one never checked his lunch. The day befor and after I had 8-10 take downs but with the banana on board we had zilch. When I told him to throw it overboard he asked me why exactly all I could come up with was its BAD JUJU. So could anyone explain exacly why is bad juju? Thanx for the info and if anyone knows were I could get a banana detector so it wont happen again

Tight lines

Kevin

Took a bannana out blackmouth fishing NO KEEPERS. You also have to throw the whole bannana over as in not just the peel.

When removing the banana from the boat, also remember not to actually touch it, and for gods sake, don't let it actually touch the boat. Wear gloves, use a towel, flick it off with a stick, whatever it takes to get that thing off the boat. JohnnyCoho and I had a banana incident last week, not a pretty site. Luckily the one in my boat wasn't peeled and eaten IN THE BOAT. Very bad mojo.

Parker hit a 20+er on the Sky with me last year and landed, photographed and released the beast no problem. My dad was with us on that day and he brought a banana in his lunch. Didn't discover it until halfway through the day and once it was discovered we had no more hits. I think it has to do with the mindset that you think your jinxed, you probably will be. I still follow the "no bananas" rule - better safe than sorry.

Justin
CEO, Sauk River Steelhead Ranch

It was October and Saukit2em had invited one of his ScandaSweedishHoovian buddies with him. Not only did this guy have a 'nanner, he had a whole bunch of them!

So, being the nice fella that I am, I told him to remove the 'nanner's from the boat because they were considered bad luck. When he refused to comply, I tossed the whole bunch out and in to the river!

Not only did I land something like 10 chrome coho's that day, he didn't get a strike. Matter of fact, we had a huge coho/chum take down a plug and after handing the rod to this guy, he managed to break the plug and fish off!

Notice how I got the 20+ lb. steelie and not his Dad???? I think we got off lucky that day and only managed to curse his father and not the boat!

I'm telling you! NO BANANAS!

Parker

I am going to have the guys down at Quik Sign Shops make up a bunch of NO BANANAS stickers. I think with so many anti-banana folk out there they will be in high demand. Anybody interested?

Justin
CEO, Sauk River "Banana Free" Steelhead Ranch

I'm all over it! Gotta stop the whole thing from ever happening only problem is that those who its never happened to don't believe thats its a issue. To all non-believers its a real thing . When your buddy screams throw it over then throw it overboard.

Tight lines

Kevin

I'll take some, they'll be great in our boats in AK, and mine here as well, absolutely no nana's in any of my boats!!! let me know what the cost is.

As for the story behind the banana in the boat thing, who knows!! An old sea dog by the name of Tuck Harry and another AK guide, Rick.Z both told me the story, which I don't remember, all I know it's bad!! (Just say no to nanas)

Floating the Queets one day, my partner discoverd a banana peel in the bottom of his boat. He yelled "who the *?!!?! put this in my boat?" and through it into the river. A bald eagle who was purched above us saw the whole thing, and dropped down to the river and retrieved the floating peel, thinking it was a fish scrap. Apon returning to its purch, it quickly dropped the peel back into the river. I can't help but wonder if that eagle went fishless the rest of the day.

I saw a no banana sticker on a used drift boat over at Wild Hair boats in Tualatin Oregon. The owner said the boat was used by a Northern Washington guide. The sticker is a picture of a banana, with a red line through it. The stickers must exist out there somewhere.

That must be the Really Big Ones old boat. I saw the same sticker on his Wild Hair last time I fished with him, it cracked me up! I was told it was a legend or myth down from the Florida keys area, maybe Bob can fill us here. By the way, anyone know where a person can can one of those stickers, the banana with the circle and cross through it?

Kev

Sorry Saukit2em, I didn't see your post/offer until after I replied above. Obviously I would be interested. Maybe this could be a way to raise a little money for the Wild Steelhead Coalition? Just a thought. I was thinking of having a large sticker created with the words Wild Steelhead Coalition, with some type of logo. Something like they did over at Ifish.net. Their's looks very nice. We could sell these to raise money and slap them on our boats or trucks. It would be a way to indetify a fellow memeber on the river. Just a thought for another thread....let me know when the NO BANANAS stickers will be ready! I'll definetly take a couple.

Kev

Comes from Hawaiian fishermen, but I don't know the story behind it, sorry.

A lot of requests for NO BANANAS stickers already. I can basically get anything I want ordered from one of the sign shops or print shops that the company I work for uses. Apparently Bob got his NO BANANAS sticker from a client that must of had it made somewhere as nobody has ever seen one in the stores, or so they say. Is that true, Bob? Not too difficult to do as I can even make 'em myself on the computer and print them on sticky back paper with some kind of clear laminate over the top to protect them. I'll look into it and figure out a way to distribute them once I have some prototypes. I have not had the pleasure of seeing the one on Bob's boat, I won't until april. Parker saw it in Alaska on Bob's boat last summer. I know that it has a banana with a red circle and slash through it but is there anything else to it. If that's it, piece of cake. Just find an acceptable banana image and we'll use it. Maybe we can do as Kev said with the fundraiser for The Wild Steelhead Coaliton. It can say something on the bottom of the sticker like "Yes, we have no bananas, we have no bananas today and no wild steelhead either, donate to the Wild Steelhead Coalition". They might cost a buck to make but we can sell them for $5, $10, $20 or something like that to raise money for the cause. Just a fundraising thought as I am not quite ready to sell one of my kidneys on the black market but I will if I have to. Keep the ideas coming.

Justin


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My fishin' buddy won't even let me eat a 'nanner for breakfast with my cornflakes before going fishin', let alone put one in the boat. Now I LIKE a 'nanner with my cornflakes, but I like to catch fish even more, (besides, better safe than fishless) so I just do coffee and donuts on fishin' days. Hell, he SWEARS that banannas have some sort of fish-repelling oil in the skin, and you have to wash your hands after even touching one to get the stank off.
Greg

It is Hawaiian ... that was my old boat in Tualatin. Even the chimp says NO!

I have a customer named Pacific Truck Colors down here that can probably make these stickers. He made custom Willie stickers for my boat. They do a lot of graphics on semi trucks like Kawasaki, Coke, Sony etc. I will have an answer tomorow on price. I will ask about a 7" diameter circle with a red line through the banana like Bob had. Hope you don't mind copying your idea Bob.

Actually, some guide friends in AK had a big run of the stickers made ... lots of boats up there have them. The banana sign on the inside of my boat (the other says: "wait, wait, wait, now!") I had done at a print shop in Everett in '95. Make 'em up ... I'll buy more

The guys in Alaska tried to get me to put the banana circle slash on my boats but I'm so supersticous on the picture of the banana I had to make a poster instead and mounted it where everybody could see "ABSOLUTLY NO BANANA"S ON THIS BOAT" No pictures of a banana on my boats. It's real, bananas put a hex on everything to do with fishing. fp

After reading T-Flings "Bananas in driftboats?!?" post I felt badly enough for his concerns that I posted the real truth about it in his thread. Since there seems to be some actual concern about bananas and fishing within this thread I will copy it over to here too (even though many of you know the reality already, despite your fun posts):

Even though there has been some fun about the affect of bananas on fishing on this BB lately, I can tell you are concerned about it; so I will tell you like it really is. Even at the risk of sounding like a condescending an*l retentive . A banana in your boat can't cause bad fishing luck. It can only cause superstitious people to focus on a folly factor they aren't sure about so have a 'better be safe than sorry' mentality. Also, if fish don't like the scent of bananas, they dislike the scent of human [Bleeeeep!] even more. But neither sneak out enough bad fish scent from their encapsulation to float over onto your fishing gear to affect anything but a non-thinking guy's head; with perhaps the exception of a night of bad burritos before going fishing . And if banana scent does bother fish, you can simply wash your hands in a good fishing soap or Lemon Joy and rinse thoroughly; as you would after expunging yourself. And for every guy who swears that a banana in his boat caused a lack of fish there are just as many that have caught fish with them in their boat, including me many times. So forget about the frickin 'Nanas and keep your hands clean and focus on your fishing. Pretty simple .
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In college I worked on a commercial boat for an old portugese captain named Larry Y. out of New Bedford, Mass. This guy was completely paranoid about having bananas on the boat, and also about ever using the word "pig" while at sea. The cook brought some bananas on board once, and Larry actually recruited a black woman to pee in the bildge, which according to him is the only known method of removing the yellow curse.

It almost ruined a weekend of fishing for me and some buddies on Lake Michigan while trolling for Kings this fall. As soon as I found out that my buddy had a banana in the boat, I tossed it in to the lake. Within 5 minutes, we had a take down on our first fish of the day. I'm telling ya guys, it's bad medicine. I'm a coonass with lots of voodoo connections, and bananas mixed with fishin is just plain devil.

I hear this is the remedy for the nanna in the boat... You take the offender in one hand and grease up the nanna real well with WD40...

The rest isn't mentionable, but the nanna packer won't EVER packa nanna on any boat again!

TH

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So I guess this Smelly Jelly is out of the question. LOL
http://www.ifish.net/fishoff!.html

OK, I'll come clean. A squeeler went and posted the banana oil ad on our website to this thread. Geez, I confess; I just wanted everyone else to get comfy with takin nanas out in there boat again so there would be more fish for me . I'm sorry, forgive me. This is a very fishy thread full of wisdom here. I've learned that on occasion when I'm just in that 'have to take some bananas out fishing mood' all I have to do is invite Aunt Jamima over to pee in the bottom of my boat and I'm free and clear to load up a bunch in the sled and head for the river. Cool! I have an alternative remedy though, because a few of you guys may not be good enough friends with a nice black lady that would indulge and pee in your boats for you; and yet you know dam well you want to take a couple bananas in your fishing lunch bag. Right? Right! So here's a little known secret that works for this dilema. Take some vaseline jelly and cover the banana skin real thoroughly to seal in it's scent. This also enables you to do the tough part a little easier; for best results you need to shove the greased bananas up a dog's @$$. You read that right. This double seals and covers the banana scent and rids them of their bad luck properties at the same time. Hawaiian fishermen discovered this technique centuries ago and it's a proven tech. Sounds silly and gross but ya gotta do what ya gotta do!

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LOL, YOU GUYS CRACK ME UP...

From what I understand about the reason bananas are bad luck had nothing to do with catching fish.

It has to do with the fact that they rot quicker than other fruits and vegs and spoil them.

This has to do with long voyages.

I fish often with bananas in the boat and have found that they do not cause you bad luck. Bad luck is any thing you want to blame for slow fishing that day. On a trip to the N.F. Lewis with RT this summer, I had a banana in my lunch cooler. I got a s/h and Rt can tell you what he got.

But you have to be happy and confident so...good luck if you are superstitious.

Walt ...aka...Gizmo Man

Ya, I got the donut that day . It made Giz's season . But remember that on a drift down the Wilson River in Gary Till's driftboat back in February I hooked 3 and Gary 2 steelhead with a banana sitting right on the rowing seat tray. True story! (The story is on our site archives from a banana debate thread). But don't let that fool you Giz. Those were rare exceptions to the
"Banana Curse" - P.S., let's try that again with a whole banana bunch when the winters are stacked in the Cow or N.F. Walt. That will be definitive!

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