Fire, Fishing and Foraging

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On a recent day trip, my wife and I travelled to the Pickerel River in central Ontario Canada to paddle, fish, pick blueberries and have a traditional Canadian shore lunch.

The fishing was good, the blueberries were ripe and the weather was perfect.

Tags: fish,survivor,survival,french river,self reliance,bushcraft,kayak,canoe

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and make it really quick cooking flare now we're going to Chile unless I catch a fish down there all makes it an else but it's going to eat that chili oh I don't need a very hot I don't need a very high fire or long prayer so I'm just going to have a very quick hot fire I'm going to push the coals underneath the fire starts here and I push the coals underneath air so I'm cooking with with them or even cools rather than rather than hot flame so good fire starter when it's dry like this is likened a couple different kinds here all over the rock if it's not in a little dip in the rock then it's often driving without a dry spell fact I keep flirting with whatever reason to could be a fighter Houser today especially with the wind with the fire pit located so that any sparks without you blow down in the rocks and the water here is a free safe spot let me go ahead and start this loken

I like to set up a fire set the fire that you're feeding is out here and you just push goals in underneath here your potty or grill for cooking and then you can adjust the temperature just by pulling pulling the hot coals out or push in the back hand depending on how much heat you're looking for see that's too hot right now that chili starting to blow away a little bit of that out I don't need more fire otherwise I just paint more sticks in here build that fire up and keep wishing a little that when I think about that what about feet in there is Julie's ideas and if you don't you don't actually need a girl very often lets you have multiple thoughts on their couple flat rocks that you can put a pot rest upon is good enough one last thing you have to carry just breaking open a piece of freshwater mussel here I've eaten these things in the past especially on a trip where I don't bring as much food i'm living off the land they don't taste very good you have to clean and really well and they can be actually bad for you because they do filter contaminants pollutants so they can concentrate those i don't typically eat them but they are really good for bait so i'm just baiting up a hook here and i'm going to toss it in by the weeds behind me it's school smallmouth bass chasing minerals in there have already caught a couple of small ones small bass and one big one which i have to collect go i'm going to throw this in and watch the bass fight over it i'll probably hook one you'll see a couple of other bass may be chasing the first bass trying to get to get the morsel of its mouth so to give this a shot again here's the two different kinds of blueberries growing next to each other see the lighter green glossy relief lighter berry I thought I'm not quite as sweet I think that's pretty typical I don't think it's just me there's a lighter lighter ones then right next to you have this darker green plants little less glossy and there's a berry from its own see darker ones from that Bush so here we have blueberries and juniper berries right beside each other so juniper berries shoot show you what they look like inside it's darker and obviously grows on junipers but it's got a pit inside a see to me so and it starts like the kid your fly and I could like to cook with those but you can also choose them or tart like I said what they're still can I taste you but nothing like the blueberries