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Ok, I'm looking for hiking food suggestions. Specially if anyone has backpacked up in the mountains around VA/MD on the Appalachian trail. Any good fish cooking recipes for the wild? Any suggestions on how to gut the fish and get the damn scales off.

Its been a while since I've gone out of my bedroom/car/work/school or off the bike and had to catch my own food.

ElTaco wrote:Any suggestions on how to gut the fish and get the damn scales off.

Just ask your husband to do it.

ElTaco wrote:Any suggestions on how to gut the fish and get the damn scales off.

If you don't know how to clean a fish, then don't worry about it. You have no chance at catching any in the first place.

Instructions for cleaning fish:

Remove plastic wrapper.
Be sure to take the fish out of the styrofoam tray before attempting to cook.

I can see it now. Dude standing there in shorts showing his pasty white legs and wearing brown socks.

Just cause I run the Geek forum, doesn't mean I don't get outside. Just finished my 2nd Century of the summer at the Livestrong challange!

what's this "it's been a while" shit?

cleaning fish is kinda like riding a bike. you either can or can't. it's ok though city boy.

my favorite method for skinning rock bass or perch or sunfish was to nail that fukker to a board at the tail. that way he ain't going anywhere as you scale him with your knife. So bring a 16 penny nail with you and nail him to a log.

You can ask your husband what a 16 penny nail is.

16 penny nails are cool, but they're a better deal at two for a quarter.

when i first saw this thread i thought it was gonna be about which faggoty freeze dried over priced backpacking food you should get from ll bean or ems or whatever your local backpacking store is.

the answer would be none.

back in my active backpacking days i didn't buy any of that shit. my favorite cheap easy to carry dinner was ricearoni or similar crap along with alot of dried fruit, nuts, M&Ms for trail mix. and alot of 1 minute oatmeal for breakfast and bacon. nothing like artery clogging bacon fat for energy. Most of my camping was cold weather, so you absolutely need something hot to get going in the morning.

i'd like to get back into that shit again with my son, but, i'm not sure if i'm ready for the white mountains in january. getting thawed out in the morning when i was 17 was tough enough. doing it at 44 would probably suck badly.

Atomic Punk wrote:I can see it now. Dude standing there in shorts showing his pasty white legs and wearing brown socks.

Sorry Mikey, but this is too good to pass up.

I don't see any brown socks...

Because AP is classy enough to NOT wear them. And the only thing this has to do with food is that it has killed my appetite for lunch.