Ice Fishing Lunch

[MeadMaker]

We did a lot of ice fishing during our most recent trip to my in-laws.  On day 3 we build a fire on the shore and grilled our lunch.  The light colored sausage is a typical hot dog.  The darker sausages are hot dogs made with venison.  The largest sausage is a bratwurst made with venison and cheddar cheese.  The venison versions were made with natural casings which gave them that satisfying snap when we took bites of them.



Later we also had cubes of venison steak wrapped with jalapeno and bacon.   

[J-sews]

Dang them look good! Fat juicy bratwurst cooked on open flames are especially good on a cold winter day.

I like'em in a bun with stone ground mustard and lots of onion!

[Lynn LeFey]

you're killing me, here. 

I assume there was tasty stuff to wash it down with.

Edit: J-sews, we do a pan of saurkraut with beer, basil, and green apples cooked over coalswith our brats. then stone ground mustard

[nuphoria]

Ice fishing sounds like the perfect excuse to calorie load

[dks]

Is it true that if you are not drunk it is not proper ice fishing??

 

[Gareth]

venison and cheese sausage?  Where do I sign up?

[Lynn LeFey]

Is it true that if you are not drunk it is not proper ice fishing??

 

I understand this statement is just as true without the word 'ice' in the sentence. 

You know when your brother-in-law comes home from a day of fishing with a sunburn... on the bottoms of his feet... there was drinking involved.

[dks]

maybe he was just diving  a lot and his feet stuck out....   

[Lynn LeFey]

He had his shoes off, and his feet hanging off the boat. He put sunscreen on his legs, but the light bouncing off the water burned the bottoms.

[Gareth]

He had his shoes off, and his feet hanging off the boat. He put sunscreen on his legs, but the light bouncing off the water burned the bottoms.

Ooooh, ouch.

[J-sews]

Ice fishing sounds like the perfect excuse to calorie load

Its weird....when you are standing outside all day in freezing weather you can swallow loads of greasy food that would never stay down on a warm day.

[Grathr]

That looked like a fantastic lunch! 
I love sausages cocked on an open fire out in the woods, or by a lake.

[MeadMaker]

Yep there was plenty of beer to wash down the lunch.  Actually lots of pseudo beer with a little beer for those of use who actually like the taste of beer.



The fish weren't biting,  but when we were about to change the name of our activity to ice drinking, we actually caught a few.  None were keepers.  In Michigan Northern Pike must be 24" to keep and most of ours were 23".



Just before packing our gear we were treated to this sunset.

[J-sews]

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(I know you weren't done fishing at that point, because there are still two bottles of beer left)