Lue and I had a great sunny day on the water....bobbers down for both of us. This was the smallest fish today, kept it because it inhaled my chironomid and was bleeding badly. So we invited it over for dinner tomorrow.....45 degree water, hopefully tastes good.
Dinner put off until tomorrow.....I’ll report if it tastes like powerbait. (not that I know what powerbait tastes like ) Lue said he knows what it tastes like!
A friend who is a retired WDFW manager told me that hatcheries can add crushed crab and shrimp shells in the food to get fish with pink/orange colored flesh. Commercial hatcheries like Trout Lodge and Pacific Aquaculture do this to make their products more attractive in the stores. The shells are a waste item from seafood processing plants, and are inexpensive.
He said WDFW once did an unscientific blind taste test (not sure how many people), and the pale flesh tasted just as good as the pink/orange. Maybe so, but it sure looks tasty!
Wow!! For a hatchery trout...it was excellent! Even Lue and my wife liked it, and she's not too crazy about trout. It didn't have the bland muddy taste most stocker trout have....well I'm good for another year or so before I keep and eat another trout.
Dinner at the Kokita's was great I usually do not eat trout if I have to kill any I only give to my neighbors.
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