Trout Recipes, What Do You Recomend?

[Ham]

Catch and release trout. Selectively harvest crappie. I wish I liked trout. I have no trouble catching a limit.

[jdmidwest]

Trout are one of the most put and take fish in most states. Take them and eat them in the put and take areas like trout parks and stocker areas. That is what they are there for. Winter lake fishing, if you don't take them, they will not survive the spring warmup.

Trout is edible, it is best fresh. When floating in the yak, I will gut the trout and put it on ice immediately. Same goes with wading, don't let them die on a stringer and clean them hours later. Gut them live and toss in a cooler. Eat fresh if possible. The meat degrades when frozen.

[Greasy B]

Pellet fed fish is the only kind our fisheries can produce for mass harvest so that's what I cook. Granted they're not as good tasting as wild fish but they are far better than store bought Tilapia. They best tasting trout are cooked directly on a bed of coals on a gravel bar where they were caught. After just a couple of minutes on each side peel the skin off, squeeze a little lemon and grind some fresh pepper and enjoy. Hunger and atmosphere are the best sauce.

[kdan]

This is WAY to much work to make a trout fit to eat.

[tjulianc]

Trout are one of the most put and take fish in most states. Take them and eat them in the put and take areas like trout parks and stocker areas. That is what they are there for. Winter lake fishing, if you don't take them, they will not survive the spring warmup.

Trout is edible, it is best fresh. When floating in the yak, I will gut the trout and put it on ice immediately. Same goes with wading, don't let them die on a stringer and clean them hours later. Gut them live and toss in a cooler. Eat fresh if possible. The meat degrades when frozen.

Exactly! I learned that a while back. We always gut our keeper trout, through them in a ziplock and put them in the cooler. So usually I only go trout fishing in cool weather months. I don't like to take the time off from bass fishing during the warmer months anyway. I usually try to make it so that if I'm going trout fishing, I'm planning dinner around those trout that evening.

[jdmidwest]

When I catch a trout while floating, I will whip out the knife and gut it right there. It will never see a stringer.

I have seen too many stringers catch and come off while floating and lose all of the fish. And of course, they die on a stringer soon, then the meat starts to degrade.