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The NC stockers are OK. Flesh is firm but white. I catch a few natives and really like those. Firm pink flesh. Flounder and grouper are great, mahi too. Going to ty to catch some pompano in a couple of weeks and then going offshore a couple of weeks after that.

Smoked trout for me or cooked over an open fire, sprinkled with lemon pepper and put into trailside fish tacos. I can eat salmon that has been marinated and cooked on a leader plank but don't prefer it.

Other than that, give me some sort of a white, flaky meated fish any day. Catfish, bass, crappie, whatever.
Just to eat a pan fried trout though.....even if wild......ughhhh.


Golden trout, ready to rock after a 15 mile hike.

I grew up on Long Island, NY. Moved to Maine 38 years ago. I really miss both fishing for, and eating fluke and crab (Great South Bay on south shore of Long Island)- OK that was salt water fishing, and this is the fresh water fishng forum. Pardon my saline.

I like small native brookies up here in Maine well enough.

Jackmountain...

Not sure how close you are to TN, but the area below the dam at South Holston has a ton of native browns in there. They will change your mind about trout.

Native browns? In Tennessee?
I think you're mistaken.

https://southeasternanglers.com/the-rivers/south-holston-river-watauga.html
Holston is known for it’s trout fishing Va side and tenn side. Some really nice browns to be had from what I understand. A guy that runs a tackle store in Abingdon(20min) from tailwater brags on the tailwater pretty hard.

Maybe I use the term wrong, but there is a healthy population of browns that have spawned there for many generations.

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