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Location: Brighton CO. | Do you ever cook shore lunch or cook fish in the cabin? Or even make something else on the Lake? |
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Location: Walker, MN | I do a few outdoor shore lunches every year, nothing beats it. I do like the traditional fried potatoes, fried fish, baked beans...but it's heavy, heavy and heavy eating. I typically skip the beans and substitute coleslaw. I can't eat fried fish without coleslaw or something light and acidic to cut through the heaviness. |
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| I’ve done at least a 100 traditional shore lunches, building the fire, cooking on rocks, so on…I don’t know that I care to do it again, I’m guessing I may still do a few for guests that have never experienced it…way easier and anymore more enjoyable, to fire up the gas fish fryer outside the cabin! I’d never do a Canadian trip without eating fresh pike/walleye though |
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Location: Brighton CO. | I never done a shore lunch but it looks like fun, as a teenager in the 70's I stayed at my Grandparents on a Lake in the Eagle River area and we had fish at home twice a week or more by the end of the summer I was sick of fish and would bye myself a Tombstone on fish nights by the end of the Summer. There were places to have a shore lunch or picnic. (you can't say that everywhere). When we fish in Minnesota by my Mom's family my cousin would have a big fish fry in his yard and we would eat by the fire in the fall bundled up under the tarps in a cold rain or snow and drinking Beer with all the family. Walleye, French Fries, and Indian Fry Bread. When fishing in Canada we always stop and catch some Walleye's and have a couple fish fries in the cabin. One year we had a picnic on a Island a cooked a bunch of Hot Dogs and Sausages and Beer I guess this is a big no no to have Beer in the boat in Canada. We've had many nights with family in the Eagle River area having Fish fry at the Honey Bear. There used to be a Wisconsin themed bar in the Denver metro area that had Friday night fish fry with Walleye and Perch but it is gone after a fire and never reopened. |
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Location: Selkirk, Manitoba | Great shore/marsh/bush/on-ice lunches with good friends and great scenario often more indelible memories than whatever the fishing was - though the fishing/hunting or wilderness trip paints the scene.
On multi-day trips for us a shore lunch mandatory and we have a cook kit ready to go - for ice fishing and hunting trips as well. Sometimes on the stove (when fire prohibited or not practical), but on coals from wood fire on a beach or shield rock. Our shore lunch is often fish (best to worst fish: fresh coldwater pike the best, followed by yellow perch, smallmouth, walleye, lake trout, crappie but could be ducks, ribeye, venison or venison sausage and even pork ribs (just slow barbecue a bit high off the fire cooking from their own fat, high enough not to burn from the flames the drippings create - the fat turns to crispy bacon). Sides of foiled potatoes and/or corn on the cob, veggy mix with bell peppers, onions and mushrooms - all with butter, salt and pepper and seasoning of choice (i.e. Tony Chachere's). Drinks of choice. Sit or lay back and watch the loons, watch what the birds are doing in open water diving on bait, maybe see some otters having fun, watch a smallmouth chase some minnows up on the beach, keeping an eye and ear out for bears which make the rounds of these spots... Then have a quick swim to refresh. Nothing better really.
Edited by Angling Oracle 6/8/2026 10:17 AM
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