Fishing Superstitions 101: The Cell Telephone Name

Have you ever ever heard of the banana on the boat superstition? It’s the one that claims you received’t catch any fish if somebody brings a banana on board your boat. Or what about holding your mouth proper? Possibly that’s the explanation you didn’t catch any fish in your final journey. How in regards to the one which claims if you wish to catch a fish, all it’s important to do is take out your mobile phone and put it to your ear?

Randall Foto of Mandeville LA, didn’t purchase into any of those superstitions. That was till right now. On his newest journey to the bayou, Foto was setting jug strains for catfish. His regular routine is to set the strains out and do some bass fishing whereas the strains soak. “I slowly trolled the shoreline alongside a stretch the place I’ve caught bass earlier than,” he mentioned. The small bayou is named Bayou Powell and it connects to a feeder bayou referred to as Bayou Lacombe in Southeast LA.

Foto was throwing a silver and black curly-tail worm. He made a forged about one foot off of the financial institution when his telephone began to ring. Foto scrambled to double-task as he held his rod with one hand and slid his telephone out of his pocket with the opposite. Foto then seemed to see who was calling. “I noticed that it was my spouse so I answered it. I began chatting together with her and held the telephone to my ear with my shoulder,” Foto mentioned.

The multitasking quickly turned a problem as Foto felt a thump on the finish of his line. “I simply set the hook,” he mentioned. Foto stayed on the telephone whereas he fought the fish, nevertheless, because the fish neared he needed to decide. “It made an enormous splash which advised me that it was an enormous fish so I yelled – I received an enormous one… I gotta name you again.. and hoisted the fish over the gunnel,” mentioned Foto.

He grabbed the fish and unhooked it as quick as he might in order that he might put it in his reside nicely. He then headed down the bayou to the closest comfort retailer so he might weigh the lunker bass. “I knew that they had a scale there so I introduced it in and hung it. It weighed 4.68 kilos. That is the largest bass I’ve caught in Louisiana,” Foto mentioned.

Whereas Foto admitted he’s by no means been superstitious in relation to fishing, he additionally mentioned he’ll be prepared the following time the telephone rings whereas his line is within the water!

Keith Lusher

Keith Lusher is an award profitable out of doors journalist that resides in Covington, Louisiana. He owns and operates NorthshoreFishingReport.com and writes a weekly out of doors column for the Slidell Unbiased Newspaper. He additionally writes for the St.Tammany Parish Tourism Fee’s VisitTheNorthshore.com. He’s the previous host of The Northshore Fishing Report Radio Present and is on the board of the Louisiana Out of doors Writers Affiliation. Keith contributes to quite a few publications each on-line and in print and prides himself on selling South Louisiana’s distinctive fishery. To contact Keith e-mail: keithlusherjr@gmail.com