11-03-2015, 05:07 PM
Coloration in trout is not always a result of spawning....a lot of times coloration is due to diet. The fish from Blind Lake are very colorful outside of the spawn and splake may have that same kind of coloration in the early spring or summer months.
I would say that the brook trout you ate that didn't taste good was a result of the fish being caught during the spawn and had nothing to do with coloration. Taste, though, is really relative or subjective. Personally, I don't think spawning brook trout taste bad either...
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I would say that the brook trout you ate that didn't taste good was a result of the fish being caught during the spawn and had nothing to do with coloration. Taste, though, is really relative or subjective. Personally, I don't think spawning brook trout taste bad either...
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