The fishin' cooler.

Ivan the Butcher said:
When I married my wife grew up trailer camping (she had also been a Camp Fire girl all the way up to Camp counselor). She already knew how to bake in a Dutch oven and together we worked out a recipe for a deep dish pizza. She also has a recipe from her mom call "College Coffee Cake", it is baked in a Bunt cake pan and is to die for. We always take two and never bring any home.

Ivan
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The "College Coffee Cake" sounds delicious...and interesting. Are all the ingredients legal?
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Jokes aside, why don't you post the recipe for that? Or send it to me in a PM. I mean, you know, unless it's like this Big Family Secret or something like the formula for Coca Cola maybe.
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Rustyt1953 said:
My brother and I were talking and after squeezing everything we could out of shoes, ships and sealing wax, the topic turned to dad and fishing.

When dad took us on a daylong or weekend fishing trip, he usually, as he was a creature of habit, packed the same goodies (with few variations) in his old metal cooler:

Rag baloney, colby cheese, mustard, white bread, Vienna Sausages, potted meat, sardines in mustard, saltines, pickled eggs, pork rinds, circus peanuts and Moon Pies.

Dave and I, out of tradition, whether together or separately, have also included those hillbilly staples in our coolers. Our grandkids call it 'old timey' food.

I try to keep that stuff around to remind me of fun, gentler times. Besides, I like it.

What are your favorite go to cooler goodies?
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Pretty much the same here but lately I've been taking a chicken fried steak sandwich, with Colby Jack cheese and heavy on yellow mustard. Usually have a couple of Slim Jim's and some peanut butter crackers, there's a momma duck that hangs out at the lake, she often gets some of the crackers.

For as long as I can remember, the standard fishing lunch was either sardines or Vienna sausages (or as my granddaddy called them, VI-innies, I still call em that), a sleeve of crackers, bottle of hot sauce, an eight pack of Miller ponies and a Payday bar.

Nowadays it's Yoo-Hoo's or juice boxes instead of beer and a Kashi bar instead of a Payday. Once in a while I take a walk on the wild side and carry a can of spaghetti-O's instead of VI-innies
 
In my younger days we had a cabin on a local lake. My dad and I would be on the lake before daylight. About 10 AM the boat was turned back toward the cabin. By then my mother was up and had breakfast ready. I'm not sure which I looked forward to the most, fishing with my dad or my mothers breakfast table. Would give most anything to do both one more time.
 
My wife and I don't go fishing, (I do, she doesn't) but on road trips our cooler always has cooked prawns, cocktail sauce, chicken salad w/pesto, and Ritz crackers. Her beverage of choice is Pinot Gris, and mine is Vitamin Water Zero.

When I'm by myself, it's PB&J sandwiches with Fritos!
 
I grew up with PBJ's a jug of water and no whiners. If you caught fish you ate. If you got skunked it was more PBJ. Eggs or oats for breakfast, dutch oven chicken and potatoes if we had enough light and time.
 
Both of my Grandfathers were avid fishermen. I spent more time on the water with my Dad's Dad, GP Mac. He was into saltwater. My Mom's Dad was into fresh water and had aquariums, some were natural tanks with local species. I love fish.

On GP Mac's boat were cheep Winn Dixie sodas. (I loved the Blackberry) Grandma would make PBJ's for me.

For some odd reason I'm seeing a trend, Most of you guys including my grandpa like canned fish. Why bother fishing? I only eat fresh caught.
 
I used to go to the country and spend a couple of weeks with my older Sister, (she's 86 now). Remember a fishing trip with my brother in law's Brother, Bud. Sis made me a lunch of two left over breakfast biscuits and two chicken thighs "short legs" as we called them. I stored them in the bib pocket on my overalls. We fished Fox Creek, don't know if we caught any thing, but I do remember crossing the creek and the water was deep, so Bud just grabbed me by the gallus straps on my overalls and away we went.

Have a blessed day,

Leon
 
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Dad was a golfer, I was a fisherman, so I 'd go fishing with friends or my uncles.
I always put in some bologna, (baloney if it's a fishing trip), cheese, mustard, white bread and cokes and water to drink in the cooler. (beer was for after the trip)

The purpose of the food wasn't nourishment, but to make the fish bite. Whenever things were slow, I'd put my rod down, open the cooler, get out all the ingredients, make a sandwich, open the drink, take a bite, and inevitably along that stream of events, a fish would hit, causing a mad scramble to grab the rod, put the sandwich and drink down while maintaining future edibility, then work the fish.
A sandwich was the best fish finder I ever had.
 
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A buddy of mine was going fishing just off Hilton Head with his pals. They went in a little bait shop buy all store at the landing. Standing behind the counter was a right good sized S.C. island girl frying pork chops. All ordered pork chop sandwiches to take fishing with them for a late morning snack. Of course they came wrapped in spool paper in a brown paper bag. About 10 o'clock they all started opening their sandwiches. The each had 2 pieces of "light bread" and 2 fried pork chops as broad as a linebacker's hand. One of our locals shouted " Damn, that fat gal KNOWS how to make a poke chop sammich".
 
Fried chicken, Cokacola was on my old daddy's menu. Nowdays, if I'm fishin for fun, it's whatever the rich folks left the day before. If I'm working, it's whatever the chef sends to the bridge.
Oh yeah, dorado or wahoo ceviche usually gets made by my crew while we're out there.....that'll do nicely.
 
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SPEND MORE TIME FISHING THAN EATING.

The property owner of 300 acres in the Catskills (novice) would bring (the old style paper) a shopping bag full of food into the woods/stand. 2 Liter soda, hero, big bag of chips, assorted junk food for when he wasn't smoking. :rolleyes: It may have been steep in places he avoided, but nowhere HE went was more than a 15-20 minute stroll back to the house. Of course we'd eat before leaving and again when we came in around 11ish for lunch. If you want to make it about the food, call it a picnic with rods/guns. :confused:
 
Up until my mid to late 20s fishing was a drinking trip with poles. Then my buddy managed to con the corp of engineers out of a 99 year lease on a campground and marina on the Rim Canal of Lake Okeechobee in Moore Haven. By age 35 (1986) I was a fishing guide. I did that for 15 years during the off season of my Indiana produce business. My buddy ran the marina into the ground and corp of engineers took it away from him in 1993 and it's vacant to this very day.

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Dad wasn't a fisherman but bought a boat in 1968 and took my brother and I on fishing trips when we were teenagers. He drove the boat and we fished. His menu.

Bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken (no wings)
Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Rolling Rock Beer
 
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Rustyt1953 said:
When dad took us on a daylong or weekend fishing trip, he usually, as he was a creature of habit, packed the same goodies (with few variations) in his old metal cooler:

Rag baloney, colby cheese, mustard, white bread, Vienna Sausages, potted meat, sardines in mustard, saltines, pickled eggs, pork rinds, circus peanuts and Moon Pies.

What are your favorite go to cooler goodies?
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I hunt and fish in MS, TN, and AR. Every gas station has those items available, and you can often find some combination of them in my pack. I can vividly remember a day of duck hunting on a gray winter day in Mississippi. Shivering hard, eating potted meat on crackers, and thinking it was 5-star cuisine.
 
When we went fishing as kids it wasn't about the food. Eating was for when you were done.

When I tell my boys its time to get fishing or hunting, they know they'll spend the day snacking on chips, jerky, chocolate etc. Mom always tries "helping" when I pack up the cooler by putting in a bag of carrots, apple slices, or other garbage.

We've found that kind of junk doesn't work as bait for fish, but we've put it out for deer with moderate success.
 
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