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BACK TO THE BASICS
Boat to one of our shore lunch spots that is equipped with benches, wood, grate and fire pit. Fillet some of your mornings catch and have a lunch that you will never forget. Another favorite is having a late afternoon shorelunch and then fish all evening.
What to pack for a Shorelunch:
- Oil
- Fillet Knife
- Fish breading
- Bag for shaking fish
- Pork & Beans
- Oven mitts
- Veggies
- Tongs/Flipper
- Potatoes
- Matches/Lighter
- Bread
- Paper/kindling
- Butter
- Napkins
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- Salt/Pepper
- Forks/Knives/Spoons
- Beverages
- Can opener
- Coleslaw
- Garbage bag
- Tartar sauce
- 2 Frying pans
- Beer-for those who like beer batter
- Paper towels
- Cookies, squares or some little sweet treat
- Pan to put cooked fish in
- Paper plates
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Helpful Hints
Here is some information to help make your week of fishing more pleasurable and enjoyable.
How to fry fish
- Start a medium sized fire with small pieces of wood so that you get a hot fast burn.
- Put a clean pan on the grate or balance it on some rocks in the pit.
- Pour oil in the pan and let it sit for several minutes so that it can get really hot.
- When you think that the oil is hot dip a piece of fish into the oil, if it sizzles the oil is ready, if not wait a few more minutes.
- Once hot, fill pan with fish and fry until golden brown. If fish are burning too quickly remove pan from fire until cooled down and then replace.
How to start a motor
This may seem easy to do but it is not that easy if you flood your motor. We are starting to switch over to Honda 4 strokes, which do not flood as easily as the Mercury’s.
- To start the Mercury’s you need to pull the chock all the way out and turn it to fast idle. {You do not have to pump the ball in the gas line this may cause it to get to much gas and flood.}
- Then pull the rope pull once if the motor starts push the chock in if it does not start give it another pull.
- If it still does not start you should push in the chock and try starting it with the chock in. With to many pulls with the chock out, it will flood the engine.
- If you think it is flooded, continue pulling and after several pulls the gas should be out of the motor and it should start.
- For the Hondas you should pull the choke out and put the throttle at half, pull the rope pull until the motor starts. Leave the choke out for a minute until it warms up. Then you should be good to go.
Wildlife
There is an abundance of wildlife that also make for an awesome picture. Around any corner you could find a bear with her cub, a nest of baldheaded eagles, a loon with his life long mate, a beaver house, a bull moose or cow and many other animals that live in the Canadian Shield.
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