04-27-2020, 04:20 PM
Just remembered a fave expression: "When the going gets tough, the tough go bananas." I guess it's okay as long as they don't go fishing with bananas.
In my younger years I worked on southern Cal party boats and did some commercial fishing. I learned quickly that all the seasoned salts had a definite aversion to anything related to bananas on board. I personally witnessed skippers taking bananas out of paying anglers' lunch bags and throwing them overboard...and threatening to do the same with the offending "tangler".
On the flip side, back in the "olden days" in Utah, some of us float tubers would have "Gorilla floatillas"...where we fished at night for big cats out of our float tubes. One of the guys flaunted our superstitions by hanging bananas off the side of his float tube. And whaddayaknow...he caught plenty of cats...including some "gorillas".
They say that everybody has to believe in something. I believe I'll just go fishing.
In my younger years I worked on southern Cal party boats and did some commercial fishing. I learned quickly that all the seasoned salts had a definite aversion to anything related to bananas on board. I personally witnessed skippers taking bananas out of paying anglers' lunch bags and throwing them overboard...and threatening to do the same with the offending "tangler".
On the flip side, back in the "olden days" in Utah, some of us float tubers would have "Gorilla floatillas"...where we fished at night for big cats out of our float tubes. One of the guys flaunted our superstitions by hanging bananas off the side of his float tube. And whaddayaknow...he caught plenty of cats...including some "gorillas".
They say that everybody has to believe in something. I believe I'll just go fishing.