Are these any less edible that a standard brown trout?

I do not see why they should be if anything they should be very good. Clean fresh water and a high protien diet. But why would you wish to kill one? This must be a case for catch and release if you want to eat a fish get one from a fish farm which is sustainable

Alberto

Lovely. Cut up in stakes like salmon and bar-b-q or bake in the oven. As Blanefishing says though, not something I would do these days, I am talking thirty years ago

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Sandy
Carried it in full, then carry it out empty.

Yep had the good fortune to have caught 2 or 3 of these fish and as they say steaked and barbecued they are lovely , im not advicating to do it regular but one for the family now and again wont do any harm

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They are a 'standard' brown trout. (no genetic difference), but please don't kill one if you're lucky enough to get one. Theyre magnificent creatures.

I'm curious where the harm lies in taking the odd larger trout from a reservoir that has an abundance of fish in it, at the moment?

Ah, speaking at cross purposes here ?

I think most folks on here would read "ferox trout" as meaning the exceptionally large, fish eating brown trout that live in deep water in large Scottish lochs. They are sought and caught by a small number of exceptionally dedicated and specialist anglers in Scotland. As a rare and precious sub-strain of the brown trout salmo trutta, the consensus is that these fish should almost exclusively be returned.

A large brown trout from a supply reservoir, having been stocked, is a large reservoir fish, no less and no more. A fine capture, but not a "ferox" as most understand the word.

Interesting that it is now mandatory to return all brown trout caught from Farmoor Reservoir, and only 2 per day may be taken from Anglian Water reservoirs.

Must admit that the biggest brown I have caught from a reservoir - it's catch and clout only rules so I had no choice - was terrible eating !

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JH based near Southampton

But how would you differentiate bewteen a very large brown trout and a ferox?

I would say "where it was caught and whether it was wild bred or stocked".

Some of the lads from Scotland will be able to articulate this better than I can and may even have a definition from the specialist specimen goup devoted to ferox.

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JH based near Southampton

FRS at Pitlochry have extensively studied these creatures and have come to the conclusion that there are far less of these fish than at first thought.
Chapping then on the head is, therefore, not a particularly clever thing to be doing.

Her's a link to the FRS site about ferox
http://www.frs-scotland.gov.uk/FRS.W...?contentid=888

Cheers

Ardbeg