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How to make a hatchery trout taste good!

March 20, 2010 By JD 3 Comments

Planter trout...the other white meat!


Well, you were having so much fun catching them that you totally forgot that pellet-fed, round-tailed hatchery trout are about as tasty as a wet sock. Now, damn, you’ve got a pile of them and aren’t sure what to do. But wait! Before you plant the mushy biscuit eaters in the garden, there just may be a way to make even these things palatable.

Wild game cooking guru Scott “The Sporting Chef” Leysath shows you how…Click here to read more…

Filed Under: Cooking Tagged With: Cooking, hatchery trout, rainbow trout, smoker

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