Ideas for foods/snacks for a day of fishing

[The Maestro]

1 hour ago, Choporoz said:

 

I be a hydratin' fool.  But I was an intermittent faster before I knew it was a thing.  Now that I do know, I'm more particular about timing, but I'll tell you...systematic fasting has been great for me.  The fact that it fits well into a fishing day makes for a nice bonus. 

Even with all my eating by the end of the fishing season I'll have dropped ~10lbs of mostly fat so it all works out.  Wouldn't want to drop anymore than that tbh.  I have a naturally skinny frame and have to work hard during the off season for what little muscle I have.

[TOXIC]

In the summer there's nothing going in my boat that's carbonated for drinking. 

 

Funny story....I was fishing a tournament where one of the sponsors was Monster.  They had a big tub with ice full of different flavors at takeoff.  I grabbed 5 and put them in my boat cooler to try on different days.  Tournament was in the dead of summer.  I grossly misjudged the amount of water I needed for the day.  1/2 way through the day, I ran out of water.  I was parched and my options were to either drink cooler water from the melted ice (yuk) or dip into the Monsters.  Well, 1 was good 2 was making me reconsider the cooler water, 3 and I knew it was too many, and at #4 I was like a Mexican Jumping Bean.  My heart was racing and I was shaking like a leaf.  Could hardly hold the weigh in bag.  Lesson learned.    

[fishwizzard]

On 2/25/2019 at 4:38 PM, Catt said:

Boudin!  ?

I have found exactly one place in Maryland to get boudin.  It's a little Texas-bbq place that only seems to be open when the owner feels like it. I drive by it coming home from a few of my ponds and if it's open I cannot help but stop.  This place just has boudin blanc, I have never managed to find boudin noir outside of Louisiana or east Texas.  

 

 

[redmeansdistortion]

I hike often during my fishing excursions, so packing lightly is important.  For a day of fishing, I typically bring beef jerky and nuts.  Usually a mix of peanuts, cashews, and almonds.  I also carry a Sawyer water filter and drink right from the lake or stream I'm fishing.  That said, I also eat my catch right on the riverbank when I'm out fishing trout or steelhead.

[SC53]

I eat breakfast at the house, usually a waffle or a peanut butter and honey sandwich.

Waters, cheese or peanut butter crackers and protein bar.

If long day expected, they I will take chicken salad sandwich, leftovers or cheese & apples.  

 

[J Francho]

I eat like a king.  The Hobie fish bag keeps everything cold and fresh.

 

[The Maestro]

1 hour ago, J Francho said:

I eat like a king.  The Hobie fish bag keeps everything cold and fresh.

 

This puts my poverty fishing meals to shame.

[J Francho]

Well, if it was just me, some coffee and a can of Vienna Sausage would have been fine...

[TOXIC]

1 minute ago, J Francho said:

Well, if it was just me, some coffee and a can of Vienna Sausage would have been fine...

I was beginning to wonder if those were your painted toes in the picture.  

[Choporoz]

Don't ask....

[redmeansdistortion]

29 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Well, if it was just me, some coffee and a can of Vienna Sausage would have been fine...

Vienna Sausages.  I never want to look at one again.  When I was a kid and the old man would go on strike, those were lunch a few days per week and on the days they weren't lunch, they were dinner.

[J Francho]

Yeah, that's how I feel about zucchini.  Some nights, it was the "meat part" of the meal when I was younger.  I remember my dad going on strike way back, working for Xerox.

[J.Vincent]

Peanut Butter Sandwich, Trail Mix, Bananas, Clif Bars, Sunflower Seeds all seem to carry me over when out fishing. Also love Cucumber Lime Gatorade or just plain water !

[keagbassr]

For me it's a 30 oz. Stainless cup filled with ice and black coffee,a gallon bottle of ice tea [ Sugar free] that gets poured over the ice once the coffees gone and a couple of nutrigrains or poptarts that usually don't get eaten anyway as I'm preoccupied with fishing.

[redmeansdistortion]

43 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Yeah, that's how I feel about zucchini.  Some nights, it was the "meat part" of the meal when I was younger.  I remember my dad going on strike way back, working for Xerox.

Going on strike was no joke.  My dad worked for Chrysler and my mom for Blue Cross, both union jobs.  Back in '93 they both went on strike and I remember them trying to make ends meet off of $200 per week.  Both got a 'strike pay' of $100 per week from the UAW.  My mom was on strike for a good three months while my dad was for a little less than a month.

[J Francho]

I don't remember what my dad got, but it was in the late 70s early 80s.  $200 isn't enough to raise a family in the 90s.  Anyway, I digress.  Still like the sausages.  Beef jerky is a good, stable on the water snack.

[FordsnFishin]

 Several bottles of Water, possibly a Gatorade,  sometimes aa soda for the ride home, and a pot of black coffee. 

 

Typically I keep beef jerky, and a cliff bars in my console. But I don't usually much on the boat. Jar of peanuts at times. I like some thing I can snack on as i fish. 

[Frisbie385]

Lunchables are great to take on the boat and actually hit the spot.......... usually.

[schplurg]

On 2/25/2019 at 4:16 PM, haggard said:

One small cooler, ice, couple bottled waters, one half sammich (PB&J for keeping it simple, or a roast beast for fancy), an occasional beef jerky, an occasional additional beverage can.

 

 

Reason for the half sammich is because by tradition the first half gets eaten on the way to the launch.

 

Tried the cigar on the boat once but between the wind and the thought of combustible gas vapors, it made what should be a relaxing process anything but. Now I save that for back at camp in the evening while remembering how I caught a PB that day. Well, some day anyway...

 

 

 

For your cigar to ignite gasoline you would have to have a very hot cherry and be pretty much unconscious from the fume concentration. Even then it probably wouldn't ignite. Pretty unlikely in a boat.  Lighting the cigar with an open flame could do it, but again, you'd smell the gas and would probably be unconscious already.

 

You can extinguish a cigarette in a glass of petrol. Do your own research of course, but I wouldn't worry about it one bit. 

[haggard]

For your cigar to ignite gasoline you would have to have a very hot cherry and be pretty much unconscious from the fume concentration

I should have clarified - I was thinking more like a stray ember getting blown into the vicinity of a vented portable gas tank, not really about what's happening in the immediate vicinity of the stick. Murphy's laws apply. I still toss a flame into a gas doused fire pit on occasion to get things started quickly, and each time it reminds me of how volatile those lingering fumes are.

 

You can extinguish a cigarette in a glass of petrol

Kids don't try this at home ?

 

[RB 77]

On 2/25/2019 at 6:19 PM, LCG said:

Water and cliff bars. Nice and easy. 

 

Yup. My go-to as well.

 

Standard day would always start with a decent breakfast with a sando along for the ride. Water and Gatorade for hydration, cliff bars and jerky for snacks.

On 2/27/2019 at 3:56 AM, TOXIC said:

In the summer there's nothing going in my boat that's carbonated for drinking. 

 

Funny story....I was fishing a tournament where one of the sponsors was Monster.  They had a big tub with ice full of different flavors at takeoff.  I grabbed 5 and put them in my boat cooler to try on different days.  Tournament was in the dead of summer.  I grossly misjudged the amount of water I needed for the day.  1/2 way through the day, I ran out of water.  I was parched and my options were to either drink cooler water from the melted ice (yuk) or dip into the Monsters.  Well, 1 was good 2 was making me reconsider the cooler water, 3 and I knew it was too many, and at #4 I was like a Mexican Jumping Bean.  My heart was racing and I was shaking like a leaf.  Could hardly hold the weigh in bag.  Lesson learned.    

 

Good grief! You drank FOUR of those things? You're lucky to be alive. Haha. Pops and I will SPLIT one if we want a little pick me up. He loves them and brings them on every trip, but neither of us like finishing even a single one of those things by ourselves. Those drinks are crazy.