There is nothing I like better when I get out the tent than to catch a smallish trout then fry it in seasoned butter with some streaky bacon, mushrooms and a couple of eggs. The perfect start to a days stravaiging for me :stir
I have never eaten a trout fresh from the loch. This year I must remedy that. Some say that is when they are at their very best.
Quote from: admin on May 02, 2011, 08:38:32 AM
I have never eaten a trout fresh from the loch. This year I must remedy that. Some say that is when they are at their very best.
nothing finer Fred, especially first thing with sun up :mus26;
Quote from: Alan on May 02, 2011, 11:39:44 PM
by remarkable timing and inspired by Keith Floyd, you should be treated to full cinema quality footage of this very thing just shortly.
look forward to watching that one :BewareSpam
we did half a dozen last week on Loch frisa on Mull open fire as well and all pink flesh ...nice eating
Quote from: Alan on May 07, 2011, 04:58:54 PM
http://www.wildfisher.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15869.0 (http://www.wildfisher.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15869.0)
hahaha superb.....what stravaiging is all about
In all my days fishing for wild brown trout I just cant bring myself to kill any. I hope this is the year for me to taste these fish. I had no problem killing and eating mackerel when I was a part time sea angler, but for me killing the broonies is a toughy. Maybe I shouldd grow a pair and be a man about it!!!!!!! :gay4
I only kill them when I really have to, under orders from
SWMBO to get one for the Bar-B-Q or the odd one to supplement the rations when away for a week, but it doesn't bother me one way or another. Nobody has to if they don't want to. Taking them to eat is a lot different to putting them in a carrier bag and dumping them in the nearest bin, if they don't want them they shouldn't kill them.
my own personal thought.....anyone who hooks ,plays and lands a trout should at least eat one in their lifetime. That said it is a very personal decision and either way eat or put it back no one has the right to decide for someone else. Echoing Fishtales, I don't mind either way and will take and eat as I feel like it. Everyone is right in their own decision :soapbox
I agree entirely that killiing a fish for the table or bbq is absolutley fine. I am certain that all wild fishing scotland members are responsible anglers.
I am in no way condemning the killing and eating of fish, in fact it was the movie on this thread that got me thinking that when I do eat one, I will do it in the same manner using a fire and some damp heather to smoke it.
I always take a wee skillet pan with me and have a few for my tea in the hills. Fresh cooked trout and fresh bread plastered with butter, heaven. I you've never tried it you have been missing something. I've no hesitation in knocking a few on the head to eat, but only enough for a good feed. Give it a go.
i usually take my little smoker to hill lochs. i can fill it with other stuff i need (far too many fly boxes, etc etc) so its just a bit of extra weight and not dead space in the pack, and i think a 10-12oz hot smoked trout with a squeeze of lemon and twist of salt and pepper is about as good as it gets
You just beat me to it BZ :)
I like to eat a trout at the lochside now and again; for me the best taste is from one cooked in the battered old Abu smoker I inherited. Fresh caught trout out of the smoker is sublime.
All these tasty sounding cooking suggestions is making my mouth water. This weekend could see my trout eating virginity lost.....only at the right time, place and the with right fish of course!!!!