Your Superstitions Revealed.

[The Jester]

Does anyone have any superstitions or rituals that they adhere to before setting out to sea :question:
It could be something you wear, eat or do before setting off, the reason for asking is.... i've just been told that my lucky top is in the washing machine ....but not for long...

 

[Codfather]

Not changing the name of the boat hehe.

 

[The Jester]

But i was wearing my lucky top at the time.

 

[easyfish1]

I have to have sex atleast 4 times.......................in the 4 months leading up to a trip out.......

 

[Paul_h]

I have to have sex atleast 4 times.......................in the 4 months leading up to a trip out.......

stop bragging

 

[easyfish1]

for 3 of them i'm on my own.....................:red:

 

[Codfather]

Bit of nail varnish then sit on ya hand for 20 mins then your set to go lol.

 

[The Jester]

I have to have sex atleast 4 times.......................in the 4 months leading up to a trip out.......

Well i'm out tomorrow, i better get cracking...

 

[easyfish1]

getting serious for a while....after all normal boat/fuel/battery/engine/tackle/weather/tide/ double checks before we leave

on the way back to hartlepool during the summer weeks i have a slight ocd disorder that makes me watch for anyone wearing a tracksuit and drinking lager from a can fishing for "maccy" on the piers of hartlepool i cannot help myself from displaying prominently the largest fish i have on board...

oh....and i wear my bear grylls trousers [sunny days only]

 

[The Jester]

Bear Grylls trousers , is that in case you get stranded out there for weeks on end .
Hope you are displaying a large fish tomorrow mate

 

[oldessox]

Bit of nail varnish then sit on ya hand for 20 mins then your set to go lol.

Can you explain this in a bit more detail for those of us with a sheltered upbringing

Ray

 

[easyfish1]

i did............

well mon 30th i did...

good thread this, it needs to be brought back to the top of the page...

 

[lingking]

for me its not so much what i do or dont do:exclam: i had a couple og mates that went fishing,very close to both of them,both gone long before their time but for sure some point between waking up and boarding the boat i am going to fish on they will pass thru my mind if i have a good day they get the credit if i have a bad day they get a good rollicking

 

[oldessox]

When I was younger , like about a million years ago , I used to travel up to scotland every weekend to fish for pike , you might have noticed that very early in the morning the crows are out scavaging road kills , they never seem to be the road kills though , anyway I reckoned if I could turn one of these scavanging crows into a road kill I would catch a 20
Never did catch that 20 , never hit a crow either , put a pheasant through the foglamps at 70mph one morning though , didn't catch a 20 that day either , just a substantial repair bill (I didn't hit it on purpose by the way )
I don't have any superstitions these days other than I'm a bit reluctant to hit anything on the road early doors on the way to the boat , karma and all that :red:


Ray

 

[fisherman58]

My uncle was like that,(long gone now)if he seen a magpie on his way fishing especially when going on a boat he would travel miles to see another,if he didnt see one he didnt go,guess who looks now lol.

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

I spit and salute magpies, touch wood - variations 1 & 2 (see easyfish1 comment for variation 2 :red and generally wear the same clobber every trip as it's "lucky"

I believe in karma (dude) so am always mindful of making rash comments for fear of karmanic (word?) retribution IE: calling a double on camera :red:

Never split all the fish boxes before a trip either - asking for trouble (and empty boxes )

 

[The Jester]

Ray, Tel ran over a rabbit on the way to the boat on Monday morning and we had our best day ever . Maybe you should leave the birds alone and try the bunnies instead..

Had my lucky shirt on as well, so i'll back Tony up on that one.

 

[oldessox]

Ray, Tel ran over a rabbit on the way to the boat on Monday morning and we had our best day ever . Maybe you should leave the birds alone and try the bunnies instead..

Had my lucky shirt on as well, so i'll back Tony up on that one.

Ha ha! it's virtually impossible to drive from here to Amble without killing a rabbit , well , at least at first light it is , or a pigeon or some other wildlife , I've never seen a road like it for living hazads. Not many crows hang about long though

Ray

 

[canman]

If it's an early start, ( I mean before 8am) I must take a toilet roll

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

without going into too much detail...0230 alarm calls play havoc with my "routine" :red:

lunges round the lounge just don't get things moving :red: