I do not know all or exact details but it is very obtainable through google. Here is the down and dirty, cliff notes version. Bananas spoil, early settlers/Mariners got sick because of spoiled bananas and they have been said to be bad luck ever since.
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There will be no bananas no banana named products like "banana boat sunscreen", no pictures of bananas and preferable no banana yellow anyhthing around me when I am fishing period, land boat or otherwise. I love going out of the headboat Continental Shelf and watching Capt Dave toss peoples snacks overboard if they are bananas or banana flavored (yep even moon pies) before we leave the docks !!
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To be honest, I had never heard of this superstition till a couple years ago. Before then I regularly took bannanas fishing with me and can't recall my fishing being any worse. Of course, being a fisherman, when I learned of it I stopped taking bannanas. We are a bunch of superstitious creatures aren't we. 
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!!!
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!!!
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