Keith Lusher 04.03.24
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 rationale you didn’t catch any fish in your final journey. How concerning the one which claims if you wish to catch a fish, all you must 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 at the moment. On his newest journey to the bayou, Foto was setting jug traces for catfish. His regular routine is to set the traces out and do some bass fishing whereas the traces 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 solid about one foot off of the financial institution when his cellphone began to ring. Foto scrambled to double-task as he held his rod with one hand and slid his cellphone out of his pocket with the opposite. Foto then appeared to see who was calling. “I noticed that it was my spouse so I answered it. I began chatting along with her and held the cellphone to my ear with my shoulder,” Foto mentioned.
The multitasking quickly grew to become a problem as Foto felt a thump on the finish of his line. “I simply set the hook,” he mentioned. Foto stayed on the cellphone 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 a giant fish so I yelled – I obtained a giant 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 dwell 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 relating to fishing, he additionally mentioned he’ll be prepared the following time the cellphone rings whereas his line is within the water!