sitting around the house today, thinking of some of my superstitions and self imposed rules for luck that i impose upon my house.

for instance, if we are out fishing to fill up the ice box......i always let the first fish go......always. i believe its bad luck to keep the first one.

also, if i catch my personal best of that species......I'm done for the day. quite fishing altogether.


what are some of ya'lls?

cold keystone and grizzly

For tournaments, the net doesn't come out until the first fish is hooked.

When we get ready to make the first cast, I always holler out, "we're catch and release", hoping the fish will give us a good fight, but we release it back to live for another day.

no banannas in the boat!

Always kiss the first one.

Be sure and leave the camera at home

Funny you said bananas!

One day when we were sitting in the boat with the skunk, my buddy says here - my wife gave me a bunch of bananas to bring. We sat there eating bananas, and laughed about them being bad luck. After a while every time we had bad luck, there was a banana!

One day we were having a skunk day, we searched the boat for bananas, found none. Just then I spot a banana peel floating by on the tide.

In spite of knowing better - we turned into paranoid-of-banana freaks. Wouldn't even stop at a convenience store because they sold bananas. Threw out delicious homemade banana bread. Almost paddle-whipped some poor guy eating a banana at the boat ramp. Kept a banana sealed in a lead box, and if someone moved in on our fishing spot we would gently lob a banana in their boat. Once we even tried fishing with a banana just to see if the fish would leave the water and jump into the boat.

Mark my word, the skunk loves bananas, and it will always show up if you bring one!

Running over a skunk on the way to the lake--Bad mojo

No Banana in the boat......

I don't have superstitions! I take bananas with me. (Why can't I catch fish? Ha Ha!)

I catch fish while eating bananas.

Don't have the camera out.
Don't have the net out and ready.
Don't fill the livewell before the first fish is caught.
Don't catch a fish on the first cast.

Catching a nice fish on the first cast. My last trip my customer caught one as soon as he dropped his line. I knew we were in trouble. It took too long for them to start going after that. Luckily we limited by noon but it was looking bad for a while.

I have been know to pitch a quarter in the lake to "buy a bite".
Sometimes it works.