06-08-2018, 11:54 PM
[quote LOAH]
Forage (Fish with a plentiful supply of highly nutritious food *bugs tend to have the best meat. If they starve for part of the year, they get mushy and yellowish inside.)
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Spot on. Scuds and zooplankton=high carotenoids=tasty red meat.
[quote LOAH] My best advice, based on years of eating a lot of trout, is to look for a white belly - any species, any gender. If the belly is dark, that meat will be off-color and not very firm.
Just my observations.[/quote]
This is especially true with tiger trout fisheries. The "silver bullets" are almost always delicious and have nice red meat. The colorful ones that take the best pictures often are yellow and frequently mushy, even in places known for good tasting fish like Huntington.
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Forage (Fish with a plentiful supply of highly nutritious food *bugs tend to have the best meat. If they starve for part of the year, they get mushy and yellowish inside.)
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Spot on. Scuds and zooplankton=high carotenoids=tasty red meat.
[quote LOAH] My best advice, based on years of eating a lot of trout, is to look for a white belly - any species, any gender. If the belly is dark, that meat will be off-color and not very firm.
Just my observations.[/quote]
This is especially true with tiger trout fisheries. The "silver bullets" are almost always delicious and have nice red meat. The colorful ones that take the best pictures often are yellow and frequently mushy, even in places known for good tasting fish like Huntington.
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