Do Stocked Trout Taste Good? Peppered BBQ Trout! (CATCH & COOK)

[@AddictedFishing]

Who likes to eat stocked trout?! 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️

[@blacktailbowhunter0135]

Addicted Fishing Not my first choice but Im not saying I wont eat it

[@kevinfaris6490]

A little mushy, but edible... Smoked or dehydrated is better :)

[@jeffknowles3952]

Stocked trout are nasty. The brook trout are alright. But, that it. I like great lakes steelhead brown trout though.

[@dannymccolligan8219]

Stocks over about 14" with some lemon pepper, salt, and butter are pretty damn good. Cook the whole thing in foil without the guts of course, gives a little extra juice.

[@robertguenther4308]

Been eating them for years. Smoke up quick and easy too for snackin.

[@bobbyiszt]

A lot of people don’t realize that stocked trout can be very very delicious. what happens is they don’t take the necessary steps to make the fish taste amazing. Typically when I harvest trout, I bonk them and pop their gills, afterwards I place them in a cooler with a slurry if ice water and salt. They stay at fresh and get a slight cure, depending on how long they are in the cooler for. The purpose for the slurry is to firm up the meat and keep it from going MUSHY most People put their fish on a stringer and leave them in the water. The best way to really enjoy them is after they been in the ice slurry is to remove all the slime by scrapping it off with the edge of the knife, then gutting it and then you can fillet it. Or cook it whole. Personally, trout grilled over hard wood charcoal is the best and I dip them I’m in lemon butter with dill while I’m eating them.

[@dsaukko]

That sounds really good! Definitely will try this next time!

[@ctcraftii]

You all are definitely spoiled talking about stocked trout like that LOL

[@dirtmgirt209]

I thought the same thing

[@chetwysko6574]

I was thinking the same thing lol qe love stocked trout

[@dylanfortune717]

That’s all I have lmao

[@Aiketin87]

If you guys thought that wasn't bad, then you'll probably like it if its actually cooked well. Burning it in some foil with seasoning salt and spicy chicken rub is hardly making the effort to make something taste good lol. YOU DIDN'T EVEN BRING BUTTER?!? Trout isn't salmon, but its still tasty, especially if you try to make it appetizing.

[@drifterafloat]

I agree, it would be hard to find a worse way to cook trout than the way they did it. I thought I was watching a survival show for a second.

[@plsdigforworms9395]

i bet you have never even had trout before

[@michael5679]

Fish snobs. I smoke salmon and steelhead that I catch in the Clearwater, I go to the coast to catch and can my own Albacore, and I go to local ponds to catch and eat stocker bows. Gut them and cut their heads off, cut slits on each side, rub on some olive oil, sprinkle on some Tony Chachere's Creole seasoning, throw directly on the grill (no foil) until skin is crispy and the bones pull right off the flesh.

[@rawdeal223]

That Individual in your video said it best. Y'all really have it good. Some folks are stoked when they can catch a stocker and bring them home to feed the family.

[@philhildebrand9266]

I grew up on trout. Classic has been salt, pepper, lemon and onion on a grill, or simple salt and pepper flour mix cooked stove top in butter.

[@jimmyc451]

rainbows are delicious use your thumb nail to clean that blood though

[@kingkelly9104]

Cant sell knives if you use your thumb

[@KimchiJerry]

I agree 💯 I think that knife is just a waste of money when you can just use your thumb

[@MichaelGile19]

Depending on the hatchery they come from, they can taste anywhere from amazing to flavorless to fishy as all hell

[@walleyperch]

You're right - depends on the feed - liver pellets used to be yuck!

[@KevinJ1live]

Clorado native here! Grew up throwing back pretty much anything but trout. Trout is a delicacy, 1st running that knife up the blood line breaks the ribs, making it harder to de'bone. Run your thumb nail. Cooking it? Scale the fish. Foil if you have it: minced garlic, dill, lemon wedges in the gut (optional) salt, pepper, butter and or olive oil, dill sprigs. If in a foil packet, flip the whole packet indirect heat. If no foil packet than grease the grill, and cook low heat and still use indirect heat do not flip, you'll destroy the fish. Once cooked firmly pull the head back slowly, using a utensil to separate the meat from the thin bones. You'll have a delicious fish. Exposing it to smoke is a great addition.

[@eriks9576]

some people like them smoked, some fried, others say baked is good but me personally think they are best in a bag given to a neighbor or coworker. haha

[@alancooper4205]

This is the kind of stuff I really enjoy from you guys!

[@jimmyc451]

cut the heads off, stuff teh middle with pieces of onion and butter and bake in foil. salt and pepper of course

[@MichaelGile19]

Good ole Chicago steak season

[@Stittsy1963]

Cajun spices and butter with trout is great too!

[@Hey_its_Koda]

They taste better by not putting the line thru their gills after being caught. Keep them alive with a basket. Then knock them out and cut their gills. Bleed them out. Set them in bucket of ice. Hour later they are semi soft and gut them. Descale them. Add lemon. Pepper. Seasoning salt. Alittle butter. Wrap them in tin foil. Bake them. Taste good with a whole tomatoe and steamed rice. I eat them with Tabasco sauce or hatch green chile.

[@Chromed84]

Stocker trout: stuffed with butter and lemon and salt. Wrap in tin foil, 5-10 minutes in a campfire and you’re golden

[@pitdawg6418]

2nd way, cast iron pan with oil, heat up. Clean out trout cut slits on sides, drop into a ziploc bag with cornmeal, lemon pepper, garlic POWDER, and your other choice of seasonings and shake trout inside ziploc bag with ingredients til coated evenly. Then remove by getting trout by the tail and slowly put it into the hot oil in the cast iron skillet and fry til golden brown. Serve on top of white rice and squeeze FRESH lime juice and salt and enjoy.

[@AddictedFishing]

Pit Dawg Damn that actually sounds bomb.

[@zackaryj19]

dude. just made this, its freaking bomb!

[@adventureanglingpnw1821]

Nothing like some hatchery landlocked Steelhead.

[@damianreyes8413]

I have three words that will change the way you think about how trout taste flour cornmeal adobo that's it

[@krisbarrow933]

This by far is the best catch and cook

[@grams4ta679]

Only kind Ive ever had are stocked. Many different ways to cook them, but I must say, I have never seen anyone put oil in the fish before, and I dont think i will try it. Butter yes, but Crisco?

[@AddictedFishing]

Grams4Ta Your missing out! 🤣

[@grams4ta679]

@@AddictedFishing hmmm.....perhaps I will

[@TheNanoArcher]

I vacuum seal the trout with seasoning and throw it in the freezer. Put it in the sous vide at 120 F for 30 min and then throw it on the skillet for a minute. Tastes really fresh that way.

[@jasonbrown78]

Pat of butter, wedge of lemon and original mrs. dash all layered up inside. Wrap it up in foil and chuck it next to the fire. Really nice when out camping. Why are you all scared of eating a trout? It isn't a gopher.

[@MetalArms16212]

Gopher meat is better stir fried with carp. . .lol

[@sdonthefly]

In southern California you only get stocked trout. Its usually pretty damn tasty

[@jmebig3044]

Stocked trout are awesome. Just got peel the skin off with pliers and pan sear with whatever seasoning you like. They are awesome.

[@mtnsavagenorthwest7409]

Mix water and brown sugar and salt soak the (skin on/boned out) fillets in that for 24 hours then toss them in the big chief smoker (skin side down) and drizzle a bit of honey on each fillet and sprinkle a bit of johnnys and smoke them with some alder/apple wood chips for about ten hours. You’ve got yourself some Indian candy lol 🤘 The holdover bigger fish are bright red good meat. The fresh stockers ain’t that good but they’ll smoke up ok. This also works money for Steelies or any kind of salmon.

[@willwalker4401]

I love trout no matter how they got there lol butter, rose marry pinch of garlic salt or spike.

[@dustindisney2011]

It’s good camping, don’t know if I would take some home and cook. Butter and garlic salt

[@fredsaulmon3252]

Trout do have scales(remove before cooking or smoking) it does make a big difference

[@dubiousdevil9572]

Stocked trout tastes like trout

[@joewellfu]

Trout, Salmon, Steelhead, kokanee, my god they are all good

[@NewEnglandLyle]

Just a tip of that cooking process. Instead of the spatula, just flip the two pieces of foil. The top now becomes the bottom... And the fish stays intact. Almost that time for us ....

[@markoberlatz1248]

And Johnny's is the secret to cooked trout. Smoking works too

[@beezer0717]

Oh yeah, butter and pepper on a grill baby.

[@matthewmuhlberg9894]

Mt lessen fish hatchery has produced some of the BEST tasting stocker trout I have ever had.

[@fishingparadisecalifornia7764]

Lol

[@katulpatel2320]

They are perfect with lemon pepper/ garlic and hatch green chile. mmm mmm

[@lakeviewcomforts]

try cooking them in the foil with some seasoning like what you used but add some lemons and or oranges inside the fish while cooking. A small chunk of real butter is great as well. Delicious - cook mine over the campfire all the time.

[@miketorre16]

i just did a catch, clean, cook today. 10 inch Brown Trout, Everglades Seasoning, Fried in oil. it was so good. im hesitant to order fish in a restaurant

[@bmac9565]

They taste ok. If you cook them right

[@CominInHeavy]

Ate stocked and wild salmon recently that were both caught on the same fishing trip. Hands down, the wild tasted 100% better. Meat looked more appealing (pinker) too after filleting. Have also eaten stocked rainbow before and I haven’t been impressed. Then again, maybe my cooking skills just suck.

[@joejones2582]

As long as the trout is cooked right it’s good

[@jerrydell4646]

You take a stock trout put a little danish salt out some mushrooms in with it and add butter when it's all done slice an avocado doesn't get any better!!

[@raidenheilman9095]

Stocked trout is just about all we can catch around here sadly, almost all of our native trout were fished out. It’s nearly impossible to catch native trout here now. So I’ve just found tons of different ways to make stocked trout and it can be delicious.

[@patrickduncanjr.6847]

Garlic and butter

[@itchinforfishin8038]

I was there that’s day fishing with you guys it was a killer day!! Thanks for the hat and stickers guys!!

[@myleswelch9561]

Beer battered or chicken fried is the best.

[@trevorsteelmon5262]

Literally asking myself the same thing here in Colorado. Propably still good here too. Looking forward to it

[@jeffjohnson7336]

Your kidding all trout is delicious

[@Hockeyreview101]

Trout is in my top 3 fish of all time. Obviously wild or native trout taste better but even stockies are delicious if you prepare them properly

[@emiliochavez5574]

Best way is to pan fry them with your favorite seasoning then using the meat for some delicious fish tacos. Get you some tortillas, tarter sauce, Irish salsa, lime and bam delishes easy tacos. Much love from medford,Or.

[@kastking2958]

Dude that's so cool I just started fishing this lake after being inspired by your guys videos and I think I was there when you filmed this, how cool! Keep fishing!

[@americanmilitiaman88]

Salt pepper inside and out. Onions and minced garlic butter and a little lemon juice and wrap in foil throw on grill. Or fillet and fry. I serve the whole trout with rice. And the fried with some home fry potatoes.

[@jimmyc451]

difference between salmon and trout is about zero except size. smoked trout is super awesome

[@shawnbowen6833]

Lol there is a huge difference between trout and salmon and even though steelhead are just sea run trout there is also a big difference between a stocker rainbow and a steelhead even. If you really think they are the same you dont eat much of both.

[@timbowman6638]

Fry in pan , make sandwiches leave on skin pull out bone ,light mayo!

[@italiantroutaholic8926]

why waste the time with a bonk and bleeding them out . I normally just get my Pointing finger , Put it under the top of the mouth and Then Snap its neck Back , its a quick and easy way to kill and bleed out a trout of that size. looks better on the grill too. Plus you forgot the lemon!!!

[@ScreamingReelsTV]

9:26 This guy has the best insight here. This fish was caught and eaten fresh. How many of these stocked triploids are put in an old shopping bag and left out in the sun? The lesson here is to keep your fresh clean and cool before you eat it.

[@Theultimateoutdoors]

I am hitting Lake Roosevelt Saturday. The trout are huge there.

[@coloradocatchcleanandcook3426]

Kids are the most honest judge of how food tastes. Your friend brought up a grate point most of us can't just go catch a salmon, you guys have a bios because you can go out and catch whatever you want.

[@robertguenther4308]

Been eating stocked trout for years. Nice day out with the family, bring home a limit and supper is good to go. Keep some smoked up in vacuum sealed packs for snacks too.

[@kingfisher1ful]

Grilled with some butter, lemon pepper , salt , pepper, some garlic.

[@donb3st]

Try the Jet Boil with Sprite recipe on them

[@AddictedFishing]

Don Best 🤣

[@FishandForage]

Smoked trout cream cheese dip. Amazing bagels for breakfast.

[@giveitawaynow4649]

I have tried so hard to catch trout in this lake never have

[@giveitawaynow4649]

The weeds in the lake take over

[@paulbarkanyi1]

My wife and I like to stock trout but . We fillet it and dip in egg and then put then a nice Cajun seasoning and deep-fried .

[@jacoba102]

Should have eaten it with no seasoning and get the true flavor

[@markoberlatz1248]

There are many parts of the country, like Connecticut, where hatchery fish are the only option.

[@walleyperch]

I visited a friend in Connecticut a number of years ago when trout season opened. It was a great experience, we had breakfast in a firehall, fished a river then a pond. I took home about 6 fish and when I cooked them up they tasted like mud - was disappointing....

[@williamwinsor7376]

I knew I catch too many steelhead when the kids will only eat the brightest ones. They ask with noses turned up.

[@gilbertflores6715]

Had to give a like for the guy who chomped the tail!

[@Justin-yh9pm]

Kress Lake!!!!

[@barryz1969]

Smoking the stockers is the way to go. But the tasty stockers are the ones like Diamond lake has...with that lake's food supply the stockers taste better after they have become holdovers from the previous year and also grow an inch per month, I can't wait to get those in the frying pan. Excellent lake to fish early in the year.

[@benjaminhunnicutt7974]

I caught my first fish ever in my life there that is so cool to see

[@mikeholton439]

butter and garlic just like I just grilled my string chinook 10 minutes ago.

[@derickgilbert7951]

plain salt+water brine then smoked

[@kevinjohnson9370]

I only love trout at their most wild pinkest and even at that there so beautiful I end up throwing them back but stock I don't care for, but they make awesome bait for Sharks soup fin and 7 gill . Shhhhh

[@dillonbiehle8348]

Silver lake in Wahington smoke them up every year 👌🤙

[@havnt3782]

thats kress not silver, silvers way bigger :O

[@jimmyc451]

loved fishing silver lake opening day as a kid

[@monsterjoeslounge]

Maaaan... I was going to go there on my weekend! You guys probably caught them all! Oh well..... will be fun to get out.

[@danielwilson1075]

I use stocker trout as fertilizer for my garden. I bury about 30 in my vegetable garden every spring and let them decompose and then till the soil come May. Excellent fertilizer. I try to catch and release as many as I can but trout our notorious for swallowing the hook.

[@pitdawg6418]

Should have coated it with cornmeal and seasoning over the grill with no foil paper. Then fresh cut and squeezed lime on it after its cooked.

[@pelewads]

coated in corn meal. sned fied in butter and oil. Then you can eat the tail.

[@austinshirley4253]

leave head, gut, season with garlic and onion powder, paprika, salt, and pepper, and stuff lime slices, then bake for 20 mins at 375 farenheit

[@tracymatherson8174]

Do you cover the trout with tinfoil before cooking, or leave it uncovered while baking in the oven?

[@austinshirley4253]

@@tracymatherson8174 foil

[@tracymatherson8174]

@@austinshirley4253 thanks

[@Carolinafishingtales]

For me and where I'm from, we don't have Salmon nor do I like Salmon anyway. Sorry, but here we have Trout and we have Rainbow and other kind of Trout. Trout is delicious and from what I understand Rainbow Trout are the healthiest to eat. Either way, I like Trout. Good stuff.

[@ImNoctica]

I've had stocked rainbow trout and wild brown trout where I lived and the Rainbow trout is undoubtedly far superior

[@ericluscombe3272]

Of course they taste good people get mixed up with farmed stock just spend bit of time after hatched

[@uglycatchfishingcrew6110]

Stocker trout is the only thing we eat here in SoCal. Our waters are so dirty. Figure the stocked trout are only in the water for less then a week or so. This also goes for catfish.

[@travislester3604]

Take youre stocker trout and make smoked candy. They come out prety awsome.

[@eddieb6845]

soak em in lemon juice inside tinfoil, season with just salt and pepper

[@IfearGod.]

Dang no butter

[@AddictedFishing]

Ifear God I know! I was sad so forgot it.

[@kalelauer2420]

Fun to take the kids out when they stock a lake but no thanks on eating trout... perch are great fried up though...

[@blueraggstmoney9751]

Eat stocked trout A lot, go fishing every weekend or other weeknd.. One day ill catch a Wild trout just gotta find the right waters But till then Its stocced 😋🍽

[@Gambeli02]

Colorado: Lakers have no taste. Rainbows are good. Browns are the best.

[@christietz5020]

I like stockers up here in northern California. Grace lake and all around the area there

[@noahmeme2]

I marinate mine in a lemon juice base marinade.

[@jlj209]

Bunch’a spoiled salmon fishermen scared to eat a little stocked trout. I grew up catching and cooking stock trout over an open fire in the eastern Sierra rivers in California. Still working on salmon and steelhead in the Sacramento and American River. Love your content, guys. Keep up the good work.

[@diamondjimd9015]

Taste great smoked

[@michaelcoleman4700]

I know this lake, how is the seaweed issue during the winter?

[@thundarpheeshy]

Holy moly that water is low.

[@AddictedFishing]

Thundar Pheeshy YAAAA! It was kinda annoying. The weeds were terrible

[@adventureanglingpnw1821]

Now that I think about it. Would a stocked trout in a pond become a Steelhead if you threw it in a river that connects to the ocean?

[@TheD510addict]

I usually dont eat pond trout. But if I am up getting those stockers (especially the larger holdovers) in the mountain rivers, I just gut them and clean them very well. Sea salt and fry em whole. Or steam them with some Thai Basil, or Ginger and Lemon Grass. Cooking them with seasoning salt on tin foil just seems terrible.

[@AddictedFishing]

Derick Jahnk it honestly wasn’t that bad.

[@davidhyatt4142]

Where do you think most restaurants get the trout they serve?

[@NewEnglandLyle]

Probably worse than state run hatcheries....

[@ryanbowers6427]

I can make any trout wild or stocked taste just as good as any salmon you cook!!!!!!