North 40 Fly Shop eMagazine August 2016 | страница 34

no bananas on the boat:
IT'S NOT A MYTH

If you google bananas and fishing, you will find many articles and blog posts written
about them. I’ve referenced “NO Bananas,” a number of times on blogs myself. There’s
a long history regarding shipping and bananas. (Think spiders, termites, spontaneous
combustion, food spoilage and ship wrecks). Bananas have developed a bad reputation
over a long period. In modern times, things have not gotten any better.
I’ve witnessed many unexplainable, negative occurrences when bananas were either
on the boat or in the possession of an unwitting angler. Sometimes it’s the entire party
that suffers. Sometimes it's equipment. Sometimes it’s just the poor sucker with the
banana. Sometimes the bad things happen to me.
What are these situations you ask? Inexplicably poor fishing results in the middle of
prime time conditions. The inability to catch fish during a wide open bite, even with the
same gear everyone else is using. For example: broken lines, broken rods, failing reels
and untenable tangles; boat engine trouble, flat tires on the trailer, trailer winch failure,
and drain plugs knocked; crazy wildlife encounters; anglers falling out of the boat –and
hooking themselves, others, and even me. You name it. General bad stuff occurs.
You can call it bad luck, bad Mojo or bad Juju. “Bad things can happen on any given
day,” the skeptic will say. Yes, they can, but they always seem to happen on days
with Bananas!