Thread: Advise for cooking crappie @ primitve camp?

All I would take is a ziplock bag of yellow cornmeal & a small bottle of peanut oil. (+ small frying pan, of course)

If you wanted some 'seasoning' in the cornmeal ... mix it in "at home".

Preparations are simple : start fire - clean fish - put oil in frying pan & heat it up - drop fish into bag of cornmeal & shake bag to coat - drop fish into frying pan - cook for 3-5mins per side (depending on size of fish, & whether fillets or scaled whole fish) - eat

That's about as basic as it gets, for frying up a shore lunch. But, now ... if you wanted to go "real primitive" : start fire - scale & gut fish (leaving heads on) - take coat hangers or use sturdy trees limbs & poke thru the fish's mouth - place limbs/hangers in ground so that fish hang over fire - cook till fish are done (you may have to sacrifice one, or a chunk of it, to see if meat is flaky & steaming) - eat

A small propane stove can be substituted for a campfire, if a campfire is not legal (or impossible to start, due to wet tinder). A cast iron skillet would be your best choice, but a lighter option would be an aluminum one.

... cp

Best you can eat !!

Wrap fish in aluminum foil add butter , lemon, salt , and pepper cook over hot coals.

Aluminum foil - make your own "skillet" with a double layer of foil with the edges turned up.
Melt butter in your skillet over a hot campfire
Coat fish with your favorite blackened fish seasoning (I use Paul Prudhomme's Blackened Redfish) and slap em in your homemade skillet in that sizzling butter.

Yummy

I'll try both tin foil/frying pan recopies and post pics of the fish/camp soon. Unfortunately it'll have to wait... The weather decided to turn crappie supposed to be raining cats and dogs for the next 5 days.

To end this reply on a good note I caught my first crappie today even though it was raining .

Cant go wrong with any of the recipes above I have done them all and there is something about roasting them over the coals on a coat hanger that I like, coat hangers get hot though dont burn your fingers and add a little salt to the fish if available.

Metal coffee can half full of peanut oil to cook in and box of zatarans

Poach fish, poach eggs and crackers.