Banannas on Boats : Fishing Polls

Nobby · Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:28 pm Post subject: Re: Banannas on Boats

There are many stories going around about bananas, are they unlucky, are they are a bad omen. So I thought that I would share what I have been told. Back in the day when wooden sailing ships were the means of transportation, bananas were stored with all the other fresh food. It was found that bananas would not last, and if stored with other fresh food they would make the other fresh food go off a lot quicker, so from then, they have been seen as being bad to take on boats/ships for that reason.
The same story tells of methane problems that the ships had and majority of the problems was from the ships transporting bails of manure for fertilizer. The bail were held low in there holds, and as the manure decomposed it let off methane. Sailors and slaves died from the lack of oxygen and ships blew up when sailors went into the hold holding lanterns and the methane ignited.
However they did learnt from their mistake with the bails of manure. They found that if that transported the manure high in the ship, they would
have better ventilation and methane would not build up. For this they would stamp the bail of manure with the acronym S.H.I.T which meant Store
High In Transit, hence the word poop.

That's my input, and as for bananas on boats, it sounds like a whole heap S.H.I.T

Nobby

cuddlescooper · Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 1:28 am Post subject: Re: Banannas on Boats

coroboreebandit wrote:

cuddlescooper wrote:

Big metrey with its neck cut and a banana skin. Bad luck on its way to you! :croc:

heres part of the fish u didnt see. fish was sharked after release. throat was cut to get as much blood out of the big girl as possible as it wasnt going to waste.. tasted like farking poop. dogs ended up eating it. anyone that says meteries taste good is full of it.

My appologies and withdrawl of bad luck comming to you! Ill just go do this now! :banghead:

JewieQueen · Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 1:44 am Post subject: Re: Banannas on Boats

Ok the story i have actually heard about bananas on boats is... back in way back whenever... the explorers used to take bunches of Bananas with them for travelling long distances as they were so versitile to turn into a meal at any stage of their ripeness... including rotton... However a certain island around Hawaii where the explorers got new shipment of bunches were known to hold deady spiders, so when a crew member put thier hand into the bunch would get bitten by one.. one by one all the crewman used to die.... That is the so called legend i have heard anyway... :rofl:

.. I THINK SO..

However... I ate banana bread on the boat yesterday and so did the mates i had fishing with me and we bagged out on Goldies :mrgreen:

So now i do know wether to believe it or not :roll:

nikoniko · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:13 pm Post subject: Re: Banannas on Boats

bananas are banned on my boat too :fishing:

deepblack · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:21 pm Post subject: Re: Banannas on Boats

No bananas on the boat ever. And it seems the "Shapes Mojo Hoodoo" got reactivated last year. I thought I had gotten rid of it but it seems I can't catch gamefish unless there is a packet of Barbeque Shapes on board. :bonk:

Go figure. Pity, I can't stand the things any more and a box usually lasts until the cardboard falls apart these days. The belief in the shapes Hoodoo was so strong when I used to fish for SBT's that when the inevitable question "Righto Who's Got The Shapes!?!" was asked every person in the boat would then procede to produce a box.
Cheers, :cheers:

John.

Lionel · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:22 pm Post subject: No But if they are smuggled on

I remember my mother and father looking strangely at me at the GYC ramp when I made them eat the bananas they had brought before I would launch. However if they are smuggled aboard they can work well as "grenades " or can be stashed on rivals boats before a day on the water.

Ben Jam · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:22 pm Post subject: Re: Banannas on Boats

I don't even let bananas in my car, because the car tows the boat and the bad luck might transfer thru the tow bar.

I'm not taking any risk.

Ben Jam

Blinky · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:11 pm Post subject: Re: Banannas on Boats

Took a lad down the Daly the other week, he saw the "No Narnies" stickers in the boat and thought is was just cause I don't like the evil fruit, unbeknowns to me he brings aboard a pile of them. After 6 hours of jack shite, not even a touch (I'd got about 10 in the mean time) he breaks out a narn, I goes apeshite and tells him that's his no fish problem right there! He scoffs one and turfs the rest, bleating about them being 14 bucks a kilo, I could'nt give a rats arse how much he'd forked out for them. A quick rooster tail and their gone!
Next morning he boated 8 Barra and brushed the curse at the same time...............................

olfella · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:06 am Post subject: Re: Banannas on Boats

Dear oh dear ( as my ol granny would say)
It would appear some of you blokes believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden

The only time I catch fish is when I have banannas in the boat.
Got 40 -50 Barra last Saturday and me and the Wolfman had narnnies for lunch...........along with our tuna sangers

Mowbs · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:29 pm Post subject: Re: Banannas on Boats

Went on a Christmas blue water charter, one of the other blokes on board was found eating a banana and would not surrender it, we offered to throw said numb nuts over the side to rid us of the evil but the crew would not allow it.... Probably doesn't look good heading back into port missing a customer, but still we caught bugger all by way of table fish

cuddlescooper · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:44 pm Post subject: Re: Banannas on Boats

deepblack wrote:

No bananas on the boat ever. And it seems the "Shapes Mojo Hoodoo" got reactivated last year. I thought I had gotten rid of it but it seems I can't catch gamefish unless there is a packet of Barbeque Shapes on board. :bonk:

Go figure. Pity, I can't stand the things any more and a box usually lasts until the cardboard falls apart these days. The belief in the shapes Hoodoo was so strong when I used to fish for SBT's that when the inevitable question "Righto Who's Got The Shapes!?!" was asked every person in the boat would then procede to produce a box.
Cheers, :cheers:

John.

All these quirks are funny. A mate of my uncle believes he doesnt catch fish unless he has Shania Twain songs on. i just think he was a bit soft but we did catch fukk all untill he put it on. Go figure. Random :bs:

olfart · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:12 pm Post subject: Re: Banannas on Boats

Bout the closest thing to food I'd take, would be the numus jar and sao's. As me 'pop' would say "Yer goin ta get a feed..not on a bl..dy picnic".. He always had a bottle of homemade black sauce stashed on board..got used to eating raw fish dipped in it..skippy and bluebone were best, used to butterfly the bluebone heads for dhufish baits. Now 50 odd yrs on, numus is me modern version of a childhood habit.

Finatic2 · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:07 pm Post subject: Re: Banannas on Boats

I dont buy into this whole bad luck thing. I remember reading a scuba mag a few years back and one article had people stuffing banana skins inside their wetties to attract the fish to them. The pics showed a cr.p load of fish near the ones with the narna's. The article was a trip to Fiji I think. Food for thought....Pun intended

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