NavyDiver
12th January 2023, 07:51 PM
Every now and again it just does not work. Checking boat last night for a 5am tuna trip. Gaff missing! No Idea where or how that could have gone AWOL. Had to defer to get a new one at 7am. On water 3 hours late. Port Phillip head turned it on with a washing machine. A wave up and dive down got everyone very wet[bighmmm]
Three new crew had wide eyes until we got out into 20- 30 metres out of the chop plus. Tuna did not show up and none of the other boats were turning a reel.
The motor stalled- tangle in four lines as my instructions to a few now some what green people had slow responses. Un tangled restarted boat and headed back to the washing machine. It was better on the way in.
NO fish. A dolphin, a few dozen seals and a day on the water - Back out Saturday with a solo effort to avoid the Green Machine [biggrin] Add my diving kit and will ensure no bananas in boat.
Just kidding - Not superstitious at all
Snopes on topic- Rec fishers only in this husbands tale (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/banana-ban/) :)
"In 2001 The New York Times quoted Rick Etzel of Montauk, New York, captain of The Breakaway (https://www.breakawaysportfishing.com/), as saying: "Fishermen believe bananas are bad luck. Something about a shipload of bananas that carried some weird bacteria which killed everyone on board. Maybe fictitious, but some people take the banana thing very seriously. A few years back, a guy on one of my charters showed up wearing a Banana Republic T-shirt. Another guy in the group went up to him with a knife and slashed the logo.""
Three new crew had wide eyes until we got out into 20- 30 metres out of the chop plus. Tuna did not show up and none of the other boats were turning a reel.
The motor stalled- tangle in four lines as my instructions to a few now some what green people had slow responses. Un tangled restarted boat and headed back to the washing machine. It was better on the way in.
NO fish. A dolphin, a few dozen seals and a day on the water - Back out Saturday with a solo effort to avoid the Green Machine [biggrin] Add my diving kit and will ensure no bananas in boat.
Just kidding - Not superstitious at all
Snopes on topic- Rec fishers only in this husbands tale (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/banana-ban/) :)
"In 2001 The New York Times quoted Rick Etzel of Montauk, New York, captain of The Breakaway (https://www.breakawaysportfishing.com/), as saying: "Fishermen believe bananas are bad luck. Something about a shipload of bananas that carried some weird bacteria which killed everyone on board. Maybe fictitious, but some people take the banana thing very seriously. A few years back, a guy on one of my charters showed up wearing a Banana Republic T-shirt. Another guy in the group went up to him with a knife and slashed the logo.""