Trout

[BigVal]

How do you guys prepare your trout? I got a few stockers and one native. I've never kept a trout but decided to give it a shot

[Skillet]

I like to cook them in a hot cast iron skillet with butter.

Just gut them, cut off head & tail, rinse & pat dry.

Melt butter in skillet. You want it hot, but not hot enough to scorch the butter.

Lay the fish in the butter & cook it until the skin is crispy & the meat flakes off the bones with a fork. For thicker fish, cover the pan. Try to only flip it a couple times, or they start to fall apart.

I season it with salt / pepper & lemon juice.

Edited April 3, 2016 by Skillet

[The_Real_TCIII]

im with Skillet. That's a 36" pan by the way... Edited April 3, 2016 by The_Real_TCIII

[stoneam2006]

I'm not gonna lie I don't eat fish....but if I did I couldn't do it with them having fins and skin on...lol

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[The_Real_TCIII]

The fins are like potato chips!

[Pygmy]

I'm not gonna lie I don't eat fish....but if I did I couldn't do it with them having fins and skin on...lol

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I usually leave the heads on too..The cheeks are excellent..

Don't eat fish ??.. How sad..

I love anything that swims or crawls on the bottom of the ocean..

[Zem18]

I fillet them and then roll them in Cajun breading and fry in a cast iron skillet. We did some in a turkey fryer last year. Best fish I've ever had.

[ants]

I never thought that stockies (browns and rainbows) tasted too good. But natives are a bit different. Brookies are the best …stocked or not IMHO. Light dusting in seasoned flour and pan fried in butter. always good. Use enough butter.

[stoneam2006]

I usually leave the heads on too..The cheeks are excellent..

Don't eat fish ??.. How sad..

I love anything that swims or crawls on the bottom of the ocean..

Shrimp and crab I love....the occasional breaded fried pan fish is ok but for the most part no fish unless it's in a can and called tuna

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[Pygmy]

No raw oysters or clams ?

[The_Real_TCIII]

No geoducks??

[turkeyfeathers]

Bar none , best fish I ever had was in ASP. We hiked miles upstream to a beaver dam. Crouching down and pitching panther martins. Caught a few native brookies. Took back to camp. Cut off heads , gutted , little salt n butter in cavity. Wrapped in foil and thru on grate over fire. This even trumped our salmon from AK while we were there.

[turkeyfeathers]

No raw oysters or clams ?

both of those in my "what's for dinner " post last night. And I suck at shucking oysters

[Pygmy]

I'm pretty good at clams and getting better at oysters.

I agree with the " foil on campfire" method for cooking fish in camp..I usually throw the foil wrapped fish right on the coals and turn it once a minute . It doesn't take long, less than 10 minutes.I have done that with leaopard rainbows, grayling and dolly vardens in Alaska, trout all over the continent, and bass and walleyes in Canada..It's always succulent that way.

[landtracdeerhunter]

We make a lemon, garlic,  green onion, butter base; wrap in tin foil and put on the outside hot grill.  Cook for a few minutes, each side.  I do remove the fins and tall however, LOL.

[Pygmy]

We make a lemon, garlic,  green onion, butter base; wrap in tin foil and put on the outside hot grill.  Cook for a few minutes, each side.  I do remove the fins and tall however, LOL.

I do that often with lake trout or large stream trout..it is excellent that way, but it always seems to taste better done in camp on the coals of the campfire. Of course, EVERYTHING tastes better in camp. Hard to beat a chunk of moose or caribou impaled on a stick and then broiled about medium rare over the campfire..

[Pygmy]

No geoducks??

That has to the John C. Holmes of the shellfish family.

Kinda reminds me of....Well..never mind..

[BigVal]

Thanks guys I'll give it a shot on Wednesday night

[stoneam2006]

No raw oysters or clams ?

O heck no

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[Elmo]

Best seafood I ever had was Mantis Shrimps roasted over wood coals. These ginormous shrimps look like some space alien bug but if you mixed lobster and shrimp together, that's what it taste like.

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Edited April 3, 2016 by Elmo

[Pygmy]

Sounds great, Elmo !!

I never had them, but I sure do like shrimp and lobster ..

It has always amazed me what a BROAD spectrum of distinct flavors that different seafood offers..

Shrimp , crab, lobster, scallops and clams all have their distinct flavors...And absolutely NOTHING in the world tastes any thing like oysters.

Edited April 3, 2016 by Pygmy

[hunter49]

The fins are like potato chips!

  Now that's some good looking eats!    I think the best sea food I ever had was fresh deep fried clams when we were in Maine.  I could even say they may have been better than the fresh lobster, but then again I do love good scallops!  lol

[Dom]

Smoked trout sliced thin and served with Goatcheese and crackers yumm

[BigVal]

I'm making the move from being a walleye and perch, some other panfish guy to trying trout I always hear how good it is so we'll see