The best fish to eat...

[OGRipper]

...are the ones you catch yourself. I was up in Sequoia National Park this weekend for a weekend of horseback riding, hiking, camping, and fly fishing. We caught and ate lots of trout. They were little guys about 8-10 inches but they were damn tasty. They were coated in a mixture of cornmeal, salt, and pepper and fried in a cast iron pan over an open fire. Good eatin'!!!!

[narlus]

now that's good eating. :thumb:

[Dartman]

Yeah man!!!

There's nothing better than eatin' a trout that you caught that day.

I hope you ate the "cheeks" too. The little muscle that closes the jaw is the sweetest part of the fish.

[sanjuro]

btw, horseback riding?

[narlus]

I hope you ate the "cheeks" too. The little muscle that closes the jaw is the sweetest part of the fish.

:stupid:

this man knows his fish.

btw, that part is delicious on any fish. another bonus of eating a fish w/ head on.

[Ciaran]

Yeah man!!!

There's nothing better than eatin' a trout that you caught that day.

I hope you ate the "cheeks" too. The little muscle that closes the jaw is the sweetest part of the fish.
:drool:

[maxyedor]

One of the buetifull things about living near the beach is that I can cast off of the jeti and catch tuna and I'm not too far fron a couple nice lakes with plenty of trout in 'em. Sounds like you had a pretty decent trip, cold trout that's been left out all night mixed with rice is a great way to start the day FYI.

[narlus]

tuna from shore? i'm not a fisherman, but i thought they were deep water fish.

[McGRP01]

tuna from shore? i'm not a fisherman, but i thought they were deep water fish.

I hope he's not talking about bluefin tuna! :eek:

[OGRipper]

I ate a few tiny cheeks, they were tasty. The horseback thing was kind of a goofy thing for me but it was fun. I hadn't been on a horse in probably 20 years. We rode about 15 miles with 4500 feet of gain (up to a max of about 9200 feet, then down to 8500 where we camped). Took over 4 hours. I tried to get approval to ride a bike but it wasn't happening.

They separately packed our stuff up to camp via old-school train of pack mules.

Since this is the food forum I should also say that every one of our meals came (at least in part) from these huge old cast iron dutch ovens buried in coals...so damn good.

[SkaredShtles]

I've tried to like fresh caught trout.......... but I guess I'm doomed to just not like fish. :(

[narlus]

weirdo.

[Fool]

Makes me wanna go home and wet a line in the Gowanus canal tonight. :dead:

[SkaredShtles]

weirdo.
I know. :nonono: You should see what it's like living with me. :D

[N8]

Fresh trout boiled in a pot with some dill, salt and pepper a fire next to the stream it was caught on...

:drool:

[narlus]

ugh....fish + boiled = vomit.

[OGRipper]

Man, I remember hearing about boiled trout here before and thinking that it doesn't sound good to me at all...are you talking about a rolling boil or what? I mean, I might be able to understand a gentle poach or something, but trout is so delicate it seems it would get obliterated in a real boil.

Regardless, I wouldn't want to give up the crispy bits from pan frying.

[stinky|Dan]

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g95/dokane5/bluebone.jpg
Meet the mighty Bluebone. This is my boss with the biggest one we caught off the North West Australian coast last weekend. Long live sunny days fishing. Yum Yums.

[BikeMike]

Mmmmm....fresh pan fried trout. There is nothing else like waking up at 5:30am to catch breakfast. And then catching a few more 12 hours later for dinner...mmmm