I’m not talking about your favorite potato chip flavor.
I want to hear legitimate “why didn’t I think of that” boat snack ideas.
My go-to is take string cheese and unwrap it the night before and put a few in the hot grillos jar (pickles for the unaware) in the cooler
It stiffens the cheese up and gives them a great flavor.
Another incredible one is hot ramen noodles or really anything you can cook with a camp stove
My camp stove and fuel for it weighs 2.7lbs. So hardly anything at all.
But making some hot ramen for lunch on a slow winter’s day out of the wind in the Everglades is an incredible treat. I always have the stove and fuel and some dehydrated hiking meals in my skiff or airboat once Halloween has passed.
Also, uncrustables, gushers, Reese’s cups are all honorable mention
A topic near and dear to my heart. For the full version, click here:
The short version is that I try to find food that I can eat with minimal disruption to fishing and that is complimented by the fish slime that (hopefully) already coats my fingers. Slices of summer sausage and cheese cubes are my go-to because I can eat them one handed. Mixed nuts or smoked almonds always come aboard. And for some odd reason, a chilled Snickers Bar is about the closest thing to heaven I can find during runs from spot to spot.
Kings Hawaiian rolls come in a sheet. So you slice the entire sheet so you can load them up with mayo, honey mustard, ham, Swiss. Or whatever.
But the magic comes when you put that entire thing back in the paper sandwich tray so you can slice them into individual sandwiches and put them back in the original bag them came in.
And they’re basically like four bites so great to eat a small snack when moving between spots
I tend to not eat to much when I’m out on the boat, but as a kid fishing for crappie with my dad and grandad it was bucket of KFC and a loaf of bread with cokes in glass bottles, pre new coke.
My trips in the bay are never over six hours. I only take crunchy oat’n’honey granola bars and a quart of cold water in my cool bag. I usually have to make myself drink the water. I almost never feel thirsty, but I know I need to drink, anyway. By the way, the first thing a seasick person can eat and hold down are Oreo cookies! An old ocean racer told me that decades ago, and it’s true. If I don’t wear my wrist bands, I’ll be sick every time I go offshore. They work for me. YMMV TexasJim
