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I don't cook it often but I love fresh trout, fried/tin foil/broiled. The simpler the seasoning the better-salt pepper butter lemon. Sometimes dill.

Best recipe is catch and release

Bastid!

I like that too.

When I do keep a few trout crushed cornflakes crumbs for breading with black pepper and grilled is my go to way to cook them. A lot of people love trout but I’m not a big fan I’d rather have fried perch or walleye.

Get some red snapper from your seafood market, and feed the freshwater fish to the cats.

Grilled swordfish steaks are pretty damn good too. I’ll have to try snapper sometime.

I've wondered if some guys who don't like trout is because they catch them in muddy or brackish water. There are several lakes here that have great trout fishing but once the algae bloom is in the lake after about June 1, the fish taste like crud and are basically inedible. However, at the same time if you catch fish a few miles away in the clear mountain streams they are great for eating....

Bob

I think the main problem is these guys put ketchup on their Filet O Fish and Gortons fish sticks.

Only when we run outta tartar.

I have never seen so many people who disliked trout. Maybe you guys are eating stocked fish? Native brook trout are the best.

I likes to dip my fries in the MacDonald tartar sauce.

Exactly. There's a reason the injuns put 'em in the hole when plantin' corn.

I used to think I disliked trout because we ate so many when I was growing up.... was told by my dad, you catch and keep your limit... after I grew up I kept none for 30 yrs.
Now I keep a few to eat and actually enjoy them.
Now walleye, perch, crappie, ling cod, rock cod, halibut... that is good fish!

I shouldn't have been so surprised to learn that most here can't get along without two daily showers and fresh satin sheets.

I bet most of you put on rubber gloves to make meatballs or clean toilets.



Triple sheesh.

I am going to start calling you guys Massengillers.

I have nightmares of being forced to eat that crap when I was a kid. Catholic issues from the olden days. Give me some tuna noodle caserole or baked mac and cheese on Friday instead of that nasty stuff they tried to pass of as good to eat.

Or ....................................give me a trout to cook.

Stocked trout isn’t very good. Wild trout is very good. Simply cooked. Pan fried preferred.

Those ones in your last sentence..............I like 'em too, but they...............hardly even taste like fish.

Talk about eating too many when younger. Best friend and I, and our younger bros, would ride the 7 miles or so on our bikes to a local city reservoir in SoCal and catch limits (or more, statute of limitations over by now) of planted trout. Best friend's dad bought our bait, big block of Velveeta cheese and jars of Pautzke's salmon eggs. His family had 9 kids (Catholics too, of course) to feed and every weekend they'd end up with limits on Sat and Sun from our trips. Our family only had 5 kids, so sometime his family got donated a few of our fish. Was a hoot, my little sister, maybe 4-5 years old at the time, loved to watch me clean them and pick through the guts to see what they were eating!

Planters hold little appeal now, but back then, helping feed the family while having fun was a good thing.

You coming over this summer?

I'm going to try to get to a couple of places in the Warners.

As many have said wild trout from cold water is a fine meal.

I prefer to fillet, skin and remove Y bones.

Salt and pepper in a pan with butter.