Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout

[270Flat]

Fun to catch and get the kids fishing. Stickers get smoked 95% of the time. Will do scrambled eggs and smoked trout!!

[rainshadow1]

Flay out the boneless sections, they fry up pretty good. "Brine" the rest to fertilize plants with the nectar! (Just KEEP the dogs OUT of the reservoir!)

[Alchase]

It always amazes me how many people on this board dislike eating these trout. To the point of calling it dog food.

It might not be halibut or sockeye, but it's still good eats.

Yeah, it isn't the worst thing for sure, I would just rather eat salmon or crab.  I would eat 100 trout before I ate some of the overseas farmed fish out there, particularly the super nasty bottom stuff like tilapia.

Yum, Tilapia ...

Have you seen that 60 minutes special on Tilapia and Prawns from China and Vietnam?
They raise them in cesspool, literally human feces are their food.
Mass produced and sold everywhere in the US. The majority of tilapia in the US come from China and Vietnam. They grow extremely fast, and they spend nothing on feed.
When we were in Vietnam in 2018, we saw many Tilapia farms. Friggin nasty!
I could never eat Tilapia 

[OutHouse]

I really like catching the triploids with a small black lure with red tinsel from the shore or in a pontoon with a trolling motor. Have a caught many from the shore in the evening with my little five foot ugly stick. Sometime the fight is tremendous, sometime they don't really fight at all.

I eat them too. I'll fry the smaller ones in oil and will even eat that tail if it crisps up nice.

How about a pic of that small black lure?

No pic on my phone of one but no secrets here. I believe it is a 1/16 ounce black rooster tail with red tinsel in the tail part. Bi-mart seems to be the only retailer I can find the ones with red tinsel. If trolling or casting, I put a few crimp weights about two feet (maybe less) above the lure.

[cavemann]

if we are camping I'll eat them or if they are hooked too deep.  I usually just cut the leader and release.  As stated, kids have a blast catching them.  I've since found some honey holes for koks and pretty much only target those anymore.  I miss the triploid stocks, those were not bad eating.

[C-Money]

They are good for folks to catch. Lots of smiles every year thanks to planters.