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What is your opinion of the stocked "catchable" rainbow trout in our lowland lakes?

Garbage! They are terrible!
16 (20.5%)
Don't like them.
12 (15.4%)
Neutral.
25 (32.1%)
I like them.
16 (20.5%)
Great! They are awesome!
9 (11.5%)

Total Members Voted: 78

Author Topic: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout  (Read 4226 times)

Offline GoldenRing270

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Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« on: February 27, 2020, 05:13:21 PM »
Curious how everyone feels about these fish? Whether it be for eating or just fishing and catching.

Do you eat them?  Are you excited to catch them?

Feel free to comment.

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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2020, 05:21:59 PM »
I love them for being the protein bars of the bass world...... :hello:
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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2020, 05:52:26 PM »
Smoked or panfried in bacon grease is how I like them... far from the best but okay. I put neutral..

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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2020, 05:54:58 PM »
I would rather eat brookies or kokanee but I think rainbows are one of the best fish for kids to catch, nothing gets a kid more excited than a fish jumping repeatedly.
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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2020, 06:20:19 PM »
They are sure fun to catch on a still spring morning
I’ll keep over 16 inches
Otherwise catch and release
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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2020, 06:45:38 PM »
I catch them a lot while fishing for real food. Fun to catch but I throw them all back.
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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2020, 06:52:06 PM »
Taste way better if they've survived till the next year, but they are no different than eating farm raised ato antic salmon from costco, if you eat that. :chuckle:
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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2020, 07:15:13 PM »
My wife loves to fish out of her kayak.
We would go after work three nights a week and she would limit out.
We smoke them up.
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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2020, 07:25:23 PM »
They make good crab bait, and the kids love em. 

I’ll cook one on occasion but I see it as junk food.

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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2020, 07:27:03 PM »
There really.not great tasting when your raised on salmon , sea bass , and lincod . But my kids will fish for them.at the drop of a hat we usually bring there limits to our older neighbors who  live  on a very tight budget so I try to bring them fish  as often as possible and I bring them some meat every now and then

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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2020, 08:27:40 PM »
Brine em and smoke em best way to eat em , kinda like a tule salmon without all the nasty slime and peeling skin (usually) haha .
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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2020, 06:01:46 AM »
Roll them in flour/corn flake crumbles after dipping them in milk, lemon pepper them, fry them crisp, smother in lemon, taste so good you don’t really notice the meat. Actually looking forward to them this spring.

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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2020, 07:30:49 AM »
Many nights as a kid they were dinner because it’s what we could afford. A stick to dig worms, a rope to tie the catch off through the gills, and a 10$ rod/reel combo from big 5 kept us fed many days.  It never occurred to me until this post that there were people who fished and DIDNT eat rainbow trout.  Cornmeal, salt, pepper, good to go.  If you have a surplus smoke them and can them bones and all.  I remove the skin before canning, and the bones are eliminated in the canning process.  I’d rather eat smoked canned trout than salmon honestly. 

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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2020, 07:47:07 AM »
There are rainbow trout and then there are farm raised rainbow trout. I'll put the hurting on a plate of trout but it would take a zombie apocalypse before I'd eat one of those solf, white fleshed, trash fish they plant in the lakes.
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Re: Lowland Lake "Catchable" Rainbow Trout
« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2020, 07:57:55 AM »
Don't even bother fishing in the summer Drilling holes in solid water is the only way I go good firm flesh and not muddy tasting
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