Fishing with Bananas

Apparently, a person should not take bananas with them on a fishing trip should they wish to actually catch fish. My husband, Jake, an avid fisherman, hunter of small game (mostly of the avian variety) and manly man states that "there is a chemical that is released by the banana's peeling" that is noxious to fish and if you get this chemical or banana smell on any of your fishing equipment via your hands or have it on your boat then it will scare off the fish. Now, being a bit of a nerd myself there, I thought there could be some truth in this but I swear we all almost died laughing when we heard this tidbit of information from my ever so joking husband. Which led our wonderful sassy friend Emily to this coined phrase..."Have you been visiting your website again?" "What website?" He asks. "Your website. I make shit up dot com." Again, the laughter ensues. Needless, to say I am still not sure if there is any truth that bananas have any effect on the business of fishing and I'm okay with not googling it to find out. As far as I am concerned next time I go fishing I'm bringing a snack and it will be a banana. At least when I don't catch anything, I can blame it on the fruit.

However, I haven't needed to blame anything on the bananas yet ;)