How do I fillet a trout?

**mrw** · 04-25-2007, 02:50 PM

A friend of mine keeps dropping off trout he has caught from the local fishing hole. These are about 7-9" long and are fish that have been stocked from the local hatcheries. They are bony as hell. They seem a lot bonier than normal brookies etc.

How do I filet the little bastards?

**lemon boy** · 04-25-2007, 03:24 PM

I don't think you can really.

**pechelman** · 04-25-2007, 03:27 PM

7-9" trout?

the thing you do with those is gut them, batter the fish, and deep fry the whole thing.

**Free Range Lobster** · 04-25-2007, 04:14 PM

gut em and cook em whole.

**Odin** · 04-25-2007, 04:19 PM

With a knife.

or an awl.

**MakersTeleMark** · 04-25-2007, 05:14 PM

Gut it and spread it, and put it in a very hot environment with some lube. You will be able to pick the whole bone structure right out in one fell swoop.

Why the hell is he keeping stockers? Must have some ego problems, or an affinity for 2 crawfish dinners.

**SKISC** · 04-25-2007, 10:54 PM

+ 1 on gutting and frying whole. Very good.

**lobstahmeatwad** · 04-25-2007, 11:28 PM

yeah put her in a pan cook err, sans head, peel lateral line bones out on each side.

But dem little guys leave allot of bones behind. you can mostly each them.

I have took speak like this when talking fishing.

When did this forum get here?

**dn4989** · 04-26-2007, 02:13 AM

Originally Posted by SKISC

+ 1 on gutting and frying whole. Very good.

Yes I concur....

How To Fillet Trout, with Recipes

I would suggest a cornmeal and Lawrys mixture pan fried in butter while fishing in the Wind River Range. That's my favorite.....They seem to taste much better at Lower Jean Lk.

**AsheanMT** · 04-26-2007, 03:17 AM

^^^ Sounds tasty. Gut em and then make a stuffing to fill the body cavity wrap em in foil and toss em on some hot coals.

**mrw** · 04-28-2007, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by pechelman

7-9" trout?

That's with the head off.

Thanks for all the advice. I have been coating them in cornmeal and frying them but my wife just can't get past the bones.

**MALONE** · 05-13-2007, 08:30 PM

Wrap them up in tin foil and bake them with ALOT of butter,garlic,cliantro whatever you like, but if you cook em with alot of butter you can usually just pull the spine/ribcage out in one peice. Bones that small dont hurt anyways Its just a little calcium

**ak_powder_monkey** · 05-13-2007, 08:37 PM

tell your friend to start catching and releasing

**mrw** · 05-17-2007, 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by ak_powder_monkey

tell your friend to start catching and releasing

The State dumps thousands of them into the local lakes. These lakes are so small, they couldn't support the amount of fish they stock them with. At certain times of the year, I'm pretty sure you could walk across by steping on the fish

**Grange** · 05-21-2007, 01:07 PM

Stocked fish are for either a put and take or a put, grow and take fishery. They generally will not reproduce.

**TS Quint** · 05-23-2007, 02:16 AM

Originally Posted by ak_powder_monkey

tell your friend to start catching and releasing

+1 on that one...Gotta' hate those DNR guys for screwing everything up...the average fisherman knows much better how to manage a fishery than some group of people with Masters and PHDs in the field [insert sarcasm]. They "overstock" as they know most will die off, be eaten by larger predators...etc. Keeping fish that small seems wrong.

**ak_powder_monkey** · 05-23-2007, 02:41 AM

stocked trout just taste like shit... Thats all.

**72Twenty** · 05-23-2007, 10:10 AM

How do you know what shit tastes like?

**pechelman** · 05-23-2007, 10:14 AM

Shooter: I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!!
Happy: Hahah, you eat pieces of shit for breakfast?!?

**72Twenty** · 05-23-2007, 10:18 AM

Everything tastes like shit when you eat right after huffing gasoline.

**ak_powder_monkey** · 05-24-2007, 02:40 AM

Originally Posted by 72Twenty

How do you know what shit tastes like?

I've ate stocked trout and so much as looked at farmed salmon

**Grange** · 05-24-2007, 08:00 AM

I used to be real easy to tell stocked trout from wild trout by the color of the flesh. But now the hatchery managers use colored pellets that dyes the flesh to look like a wild trout.