I experienced it on a charter trip once. we brought bananas and the captain was like you know thats bad luck right. We were like- Ah!! We dont believe in that. He said well its up to yall. And I'll be dang if we didnt have more things go wrong on that trip than you can imagine. Finally we chunked those bananas as far as we could and everything went smooth after that. I dont really believe in superstition but I will never bring bananas fishing again.
As far as its origin I always heard it was from back in the days of shipping the bananas on boats and spiders would hide in the bunches. then come out on the boat and bite crew members and they would die. therefore bananas being bad luck on a boat
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