You guys are BANANAS...
A lot of years ago, while getting ready to fish my very first all-niter tourney as a non-boater. I stopped by a local deli and picked up some sandwiches and drinks for my boater and I. On the counter were some bananas, picked them up and tossed them in the bag. Went to the lake with everything including ice, thinking I was being a thoughtful guy. While the boater was getting his stuff ready...I split things up between the rear compartment and the cooler. Off we went into the night.
About three hours into it, my boater asks if I could hand him a drink, I hand him one and grab a banana for myself. Being polite I ask him if he wanted one. Well you would think I slept his sister the way he carried on. Cursing, screaming, calling me all sorts of names. He stated he was going to throw them overboard.
I laughed and said, you can call me all the names you want...but touch my bananas and you're going into the drink to get them.
(my dynamic personality prevailed again)
Sad to say, he would not speak to me the rest of the night.
In the end, he finished 3rd and I finished 1st on the non-boater side.
After that experience, I respected the boaters that did not want bananas on board...but thought it foolish.
I frequently eat bananas as a snack while on the water...and I have 3 - 8lbers 2 - 7 plus lbers and a bunch of 5-6's this year. If I figure a way to make trebles stick to a
BANANA...I would use one for bait.
As the saying goes,
to each his own.
Either way, good fish'n boyz!!!