I had my first trout the other week and it was cooked with mushrooms and a bit of lemon i think, and it was horrible!! i tasted very earthy? almost like mud anyone else think this?

Where did you catch it from, if it is from somewhere that allows C&R eat them from somewhere else. They should taste nice not a muddy fish at all, but you do not have to keep them.

Clean, clear water should produce better eating fish.

the place I got it from has clear water and is a really nice fishery, it also allows catch and release, but then virtually every fishery near me does.
How does C&R affect the taste of the fish?

Hi Kcon

I would generally agree that most of the trout I have eaten have been stockies (some would say mutant pellet pigs) and have tasted quiet muddy.
I thought it was me in the beggining so I tried all sorts of recipes but still found them hard to stomach. Then I discovered smoking hot and cold, hot was ok if well flavoured but cold smoked was better. Then I got really spoilt when I caught a 2.5lb wild rainbow trout in New Zealand, it went straight on the BBQ that evening, red flesh and tasted just like salmon yummy.

It has been said if you fillet the trout and leave it in the fridge uncovered for a few days it tastes less muddy, but yet to try this myself.

When I do eat trout in the UK they are usually over wintered fish from a reservoir and definately taste better IMO.

Cheers Wiz

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If the fish are tasting muddy from your water, try this:
Gut the fish as usual, fill a bowl with clean fresh cold water, add a couple of teaspoons of salt. Place fish in the bowl and set aside in the fridge over night.
Then prepare as normal the muddy flavour should have disappeared.
Works for me and this is how I would prepare pike also.

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Trout unless wild are infinetly better smoked!

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Aye they are, but do you find that the rizla's get really wet?

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I agree,

The nicest trout to eat is a wild trout. The nicest way to cook it is smoke it as soon as possible.

The best ever was on Lough Mask a few years ago. Myself and a friend had caught and released a couple of fish and just before luch we caught a nice sized trout.

I had my kelly kettle and a portable cold smoker with me to try, as I had been given Oak Shavings from an old Bushmills Whisky Barrell. The smell of the Trout cooking with the whiskey oak was out of this world. In fact it attracted three other boats to the shore to see what the smell was .

My friend who normally doesnt eat fish had to admit that it was superb.

Stay away from the stockies, they have been fed mostly on pellets so unless they have over wintered and fed for a while on natural food, put them back.

I doesn't. It just means you can choose which fishery to keep fish from.