Any time you can have fresh fish for dinner after a great day out, it just makes the day complete. What ever method of cooking you choose, either baking, poaching, steaming or by frying they all are good. I will tell you this. For those who like to fry fish, I would suggest you buy a can of the hard pack shortening/oil vice buying a bottle of the liquified oil. After a long day with some hard portages you finally find a great campsite, set up camp, fillet your fish and think about how good the fish will taste using your favorite batter recipe. Open your food bag to get all the ingredients and cooking utensils to find out your bottle of oil is empty. Then you realize that there is a big hole in the bottom of the container and the oil is now all over everything else in the bag. After a few CHOICE words and 2 hours of cleaning trying to salvage anything you can, you can finally sit back and relax for the evening and dream about what the fish would have tasted like with your favorite batter mix. I also recommend that you zip-lock everything up separately. It might save you from having to throw it in the fire a burning it. Have a nice day.

Posted by Mark on October 21, 1999 at 22:53