Jeff and I arrived in Miami late on Sunday night for our fishing trip and after leaving MIA headed to the nearest Publix to get food so we could make lunches for the week.  In the fruit department I was reaching for bananas and Jeff nixed that idea.  OK, bananas are bad luck on the boat but isn’t it alright to have one for breakfast?   I wasn’t going to take any chances on this front so decided I could live without a banana for the week.

Our first day on the water was a bust and it was a pretty nice day, we just saw few fish and the ones we saw really didn’t want to eat.  That night we realized we were wearing all new fishing clothing so the next day we put on shirts that had caught fish before and, low and behold, we caught fish.

What is it with fisherman and luck?   Anglers have their lucky caps, lucky shirts, lucky flies, etc…  They believe all sort of superstition like the boat and banana idea.  Some guides in Belize I’ve been with try to whisper at you from the poling platform in fear that a permit will hear them speak.  It gets a bit crazy.

On that second day we saw a boat with bait guys hook up a big tarpon and they had this fish on for what must have been over an hour.  We saw the  big poon jump, it was a 100-150 lbs fish though we never saw it landed as we had moved on for a time.  We came back to that spot when we found the flats were blown out and noticed a chicken floating in that water that had been decapitated.   This is Miami after all, nothing is really all that strange, but this got us to wondering – did these guys sacrifice a chicken to get that tarpon?  Did they make an offering of the chicken after getting the tarpon?   What would have happened had they used a goat?