Bmitteness

Hi, new here. Has anybody tried cooking shore lunch on the Solo Stove Bonfire? We deep fry, usually about 6 of us. We do a fly-in trip, every year in Quebec and there is lots of firewood available. Getting tired of lugging propane bottles in.

Jonmaly Loc: Porter Texas. 20 minutes north of Houston

Yes when we go to The Boundary Waters through Minnesota to Northern Lights Lake. We live off of shore lunch. We just take flower lemon pepper garlic powder and salt mix. A 3 pound can of Crisco a bag of potatoes. And the heaviest thing we carry is a cast iron pot. To save space you can take the Crisco and pack it into the pot before the trip. All this makes the greatest Shore lunch! It's well worth the carry-in.

Grandpa Knows How Loc: OC, California

Best coating for frying fish is ground Saltine Crackers. It give a nice brown crust, but better yet, it doesn’t burn like flour, pancakes flour or dozens of other used items. Can use your oil over and over, just strain between uses.

Sinner Loc: witness protection program

Do you filet, or scale and leave head and fins on?

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

Welcome to the Forum, B, I had a fishing buddy that used to fish Northern Lights Lake until I convinced him to drive a little farther and catch many more and much bigger Walleye in the Lac Sioux.

ronengland

Best we've used for either "dry dusting" or "battered" our Fillets is, CHUCK WAGON ONION RING MIX, if you can find it. Available on line. Been using it on over 60 fly in trips to Ontario and Manitoba.

Jonmaly Loc: Porter Texas. 20 minutes north of Houston

Sounds a lot better then regular flour salt and pepper Etc. I'd go with it!

Jonmaly Loc: Porter Texas. 20 minutes north of Houston

Since we're talkin recipes does anybody have a good crab stuffing recipe to stuff fish with?

bigbarneycars Loc: Wilmington,NC

Not sure where you fly into in Quebec. butwhen we were living in S.E. Michigan we have driven east on 401 in Ontario then north out of toronto to North Bay then back east into Quebec on 17 and we'd find no shortage Burch Trees to get the fire going so all we needed was ah box of stick matches. We met a guy from Montreal that flew his own plane in up there had his own cabin in a canal tying a few lakes together(he had 99 year lease on that whole patch of land) We'd set up camp across from the cabin and we were just sitting there around our fire when he landed in one of the lakes and taxied up to the dock he'd built and waved to us when he stepped out on the dock to tie off the plane. I waved back with a 5th of VO in my had and he laughed and come on over. We had a great time for a few days he was there and he offered to rent us the cabin the following spring. Indoor plumbing, 100 gallon LP tanks on sight, No inhaling in Mosquitoes and Blackflies while we were cooking of sitting around the fire. Think we declined the offer? lol. It lasted for a couple years but after those few years we contacted him late summer and told him how much we'd appreciated his hospitality but for the next few years we were going to try our luck around Long Lac north of Thunder Bay in central Ontario. Their's lotta Burch Trees there too, Jer

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

Why would you do that? It sounds to me like you were in Heaven. What was wrong?

bigbarneycars Loc: Wilmington,NC

I guess we just got a bit bored with the sameness? The Pike never got bigger then 3-4 pounds, Walleye averaged 2-3 pounds. There was a 20 acre or so Lake 4-5 miles from our camp that we knew contained Lake Trout, but three full days in three consecutive years 6 of us in three 17' Grumman's doing everything we could do to drag 'um out of that lake never did any of us even get a bump. You've fished in the land to our north too. You know the rules about 6 per species per license. If you even think about trying to cross the boarder with even one extra, Bad Idea. What you call Shore lunch, we call pike on ah paddle. That's the only way to cross the boarder with an access of the good stuff, lol. Jer

bigbarneycars Loc: Wilmington,NC

A little side bar story about those Quebec trips. Our host back then had another cabin on an Island in one of those tied together lakes. At his request we checked out that cabin on the Island our first year back up there. What we found is difficult to understand but was ever more painful to look at. Over the previous winter the "Natives" up there had used the cabin to live in, harvest their beaver and muskrat pelts and nail the hides on the only door plus half of another wall and used the rest of the cabin interior structure for fire wood to warm their dumb asses. And we found a phone that we could used to report our findings that very afternoon, and he was not pleased. The following Memorial Day week when we went back, that cabin on the Island had been burned to the ground and without ever knowing for sure we've always assumed that it was our host telling his neighbors to "UP YOURS KEMOSABE" , Jer