What do you eat?

[Sam]

Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwhiches.

The jumbo size Snickers.

I may not catch much but am I hyper or what?

[.ghoti.]

If I'm going to be on the water all day, I'll pack some munchies. A bag of cheese, cut into bite sized pieces, a bag of jerky, a bag of grapes or cherries, whatever bite-size fruit is available. I freeze a couple of bottles of water, and take as many more bottles as will fit, leaving room for a couple of sports drinks for the ride back to the dock. You gotta have sports drinks; a guy's got to keep up his electrolytes. Best sports drinks; Sam Adams Boston Lager, Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat Beer, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Boulevard Pale Ale, etc.

Cheers,

GK

[Fish Chris]

Well, I typically bring a good sized lunch... a sandwich, or even two, for trips longer than 8 or 10 hours, plus some chips, sweets, an apple, or a bananna.

........and considering that my big fish game is more mental than physical anyway, it doesn't matter if I'm eating or not. I start my brain-storming before I get on the water, and this goes on all day, mouth full or not :-)

This said, I have gotten into some one-on-one competitions (while sight fishing) that lasted for 8 to 10 hours straight, during which time I darn near dehydrated and / or starved to death, even though I had water and a lunch box right at my feet ! ......all because I was too focused / entranced to take a couple minutes to take a drink, and eat a few bites.

Peace,

Fish

[Bass Smacker]

 I freeze 3-4 bottls of water and bring cheese and crackers

I use to be like alot of you and just go without. but being in the middle of no where and suffering from the beginingsof heat stroke is a bad bad thing.

[Rattlinrogue]

2 or 3 20 oz. Diet Cokes,a can of Timberwolf snuff,and a pack of Doral Lights.

[bassmasta7]

I always bring 3 packs of peanut butter and honey crackers and 1 gallon of water. I sometimes bring coke and that used to be all i would drink but once i get home i would get some nasty dehydration headaches. Sometimes I bring sandwiches if im out all day. If I go around 11 then i might have one of my friends stop and get a pizza. After we eat, I can use the crust to catch carp. I caught a 30lber with crust with a little pizza sauce on it. I love the hot dog idea. Do you leave the hotdogs in the boiling water all day or just put them in right before you want them?

[Redtail]

Your welcome Ronnie!

Put them in the boiling water when you leave in the morning (even if they are frozen).  They will be perfect when you want them - I haven't seem them over cook.

I can't tell you how good they are when you've been fishing for 4 or 5 hours and it's a liitle cold out there on the water.

You won't be dissappointed and it only takes a couple minutes if preparation.

[newbiebassfreak]

are bananas bad luck or somthing? I saw that in a surfing movie when one guy wanted to take bananas while on a trip to surf the cortez bank.

[NHBA Charlie]

When you get to be my age, you don't have time to eat on the water. You never know when your last cast will happen.

I eat a good breakfast on the way to the water, carry about 18 bottles of gatorade, 1/2 gallon of coffee and go fishin'.  Every partner knows that if they spill my coffee, they walk home. Don't have any spilled coffee on my boat.

Stop on the way home for dinner.  A few missed meals would not hurt me or my figure at all!

Wouldn't hurt you either, Capt. Mike!

[TheBeast]

Playmate cooler full of water and Gatorade, maybe a couple of sodas just to have one. Some type of sandwich or two, chips and snack cake, and fruit usually apples and BANNANAS.  Eat while making a run to another spot or take a bite in between casts.

[goldenmonkey]

I'll usually grab a sub at wawa before I go out and a bag of pretzels.

wash it down with lots of beer

[squid]

What do you pack for a day on the lake?

I've been known to pack a bunch of sandwiches and never touch them. Or chow down on an MRE during a fit of crazy hunger.

To tell you the truth, I just never get all that hungry on the water. Or I'm just too busy to think about eating.

MRE?  WHAT DID YA DO...CLEAN OUT THE MILITARY SUPPLY?....LOL

WE TAKE CARROTS, BANANA'S, BREAKFAST BARS, WATER, MTN DEW AND COKE, OH....COFFEE FOR THOSE BRISK MORNINGS.

[radiob]

Right now when i head to the river i take two rockstar juiced and beer, it depends on what time i get out. summer time i take what ever the weather dictates, that could be anything from gallons of water and beer, oh yeah, and rockstar juiced. food wise, i usually eat before i go out, but i always have some jerky and chips of some sort very handy. and the most important item, timberwolf long cut wintergreen.

now that i think about it, we tend to cook out quite a bit on our fishing trips. especially if we floated that day. a great way to eat your catch. grill em at the canoe site, or camp ground.

the radio guy

[fish-fighting-illini]

 lots of mention of water drinking and someone mentioned electrolytes. If you ever see someone suffer heat exaustion you need to get them cooled off of course but this means they could be low on electrolytes. Drinking water could wash away the remaining electrolytes that they have and thus kill them. Some sort of sports drink might save someone, not sure if a soda good or not. Maybe have a sports drink on hand for emergencies.

 It happened localy to a football player in Bloomington IL and has happened in other situations too mainly with the summer football practices. He may have died anyway who knows.

 Don't want to hi-jack thread but NCAA, NFL & High schools keep talking about changing this in regards to practices but they don't seem to make this happen.

 Don't take my word for this I'm not a medical guy this needs to come from someone with more medical knowlege than me.

[Jimzee]

I usually take two peanut butter sandwiches and two apples. This also comes with a couple cans of Coke and a gallon of water. I have to drink alot of water on those hot days, I get a real bad headache if I don't. 8-)

[HappyHooker]

Monster Energy drinks and pretzels are what get me through the day...They are kinda like my good luck charm i guess you could say, cuz everytime i drank a monster i finished in the top 3 of any tourney i fished last year lol...i wish i could get sponsored by them cuz id never loose lol!  ;D

[Breeeez]

Hello y'all.

First post here.  This site is awesome.

When I'm out on the lake and I get hungry or have to have a nature call, I pull up to my pier, and go fire up the grill and have a big juicy hamburger or something, watch a little ESPN2 Saturday morning fishing then maybe go back out awhile.  

Yea, I feel really privileged to actually live on a lake.  Took me a LOOONG time to be able to do this.  There's always a down-side to everything.  Right after I got this place, my company transferred me to about 60 miles away.  Now I spend an horrendous amount of time driving to and from my beloved lake home.  I staunchly will not give it up though..... >

[justfishin]

I think after reading this thread I will try the hotdogs in the thermos and RW's idea of a beer, not one but, three, I hate having just one beer, its not good for you. Not bud, but a Yuenglings Lager. Gee, at 3:30 am, that should give me a edge. Thanks . ;D

[Madhouse27]

I usually go for the standard two sandwiches, bag of Doritos, Payday candy bar, jug of water and some ice cold beer. Usually attempt to hold off on the cold ones until after 10:00 am (not always successful). Yesterday ice fishing it was much earlier.

[jomatty]

gatorade (fruit punch flavor) and a few cliff bars are good for me.  sometimes my wife packs a real lunch and that is always nice, although sometimes i struggle to find a good time to eat it (it always gets disposed of somehow before i get home, or that would be the last lunch i get packed for me)