Re: [Paddlewise] wet mouths & other stuff

From: Michael Edelman <mje_at_mich.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 18:54:08 -0500
Ari Saarto wrote:

> Dear paddlewisers,
>
> how about food and cooking tips (not to mention great stories
> about greatest fish on earth & how you made it..)?
>

My favorite camping dessert is something my pal Peter introduced me to many
years ago. It's a dry mix of Post Grape Nuts, instant milk and powdered instant
cocoa. Add hot water and it's sort of like instant flummery. You Europeans will
have to find a friendly North American to ship you a box of Grape Nuts.

Best fish? I was doing a canoe trip around Isle Royale (hope to do it via kayak
this year) and we were woefully short of food...but we did have a few spinning
rigs. Using the classic Michigan pike rig- that's a red/white Dardevle spoon on
a 6" steel leader- we hauled in enough pike out of Chickenbone Lake to stuff
ourselves and give some to the nice honeymooners in the next tent. Just dipped
fillets in Shake 'n' Bake and fried them in oil. Few freshwater fish match pike
for sweet, delicate flesh. I'm taking a #6 or #7 fly rod and some red and white
Dahlberg Divers when I go back.

I've never carried wine on a camping trip, but Peter and I *always* carried a
bottle of Yukon Jack ("the Black Sheep of Canadian whiskies") on our backpack
and canoe trips.

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