muddy tasting trout

[sharpshooter223]

so in a lot of lowland lakes if fish carry over they can sometimes feed heavily on snails. i caught a bunch of these kind of trout last year and they were really muddy tasting. any ideas on what to do to make them taste less muddy?

[swedefish4life1]

FEED THEM TO YOUR KITTIES????:colors: lol
Trousties can and will be nasty if there in warming waters, alkline high waters and poor diets and a few more as well.

[G-Man]

The best method I've found is to throw them back and catch them when the water is cold. :thumright

Seriously, I've never had a muddy tasting fish that was caught in the Winter or Spring. Once Summer rolls around and you find yourself fishing in shallow lake, forget it, toss them back. There are exceptions to this rule, but most of these are deep lakes and you're pulling the fish out from the depths of some ice cold water.

I did see a device advertised for cleaning and marinading your foods that was originally designed to get the muddy taste out of catfish fillets. I found the link to the mfg site: Culinary Prep

[Anglinarcher]

First off, snails do not make fish taste muddy, warm water, improper care of the fish just after catching them, and high levels of moss make them, especially trout, taste muddy.

Of course, all of what G-Man said means he does not need to deal with any of those issues.

I have not tried this on Trout, but for catfish, you can soak the fillets for about four hours in skim milk, then rinse and cook as normal. It seems to work very well when you do this.

[wolverine]

Trout from shallow lowland lakes are safe from me once the weather and water warms up. They get snakey looking and don't fight worth a darn so I leave them alone until the weather cools in the late fall. Even if you C&R them the effort to escape in the warm water often proves to be fatal even though they initially swim away. Soaking them in milk overnight does help a bit (same with ugly river salmon), but not enough to make it really palatable. Same as trying to eat cutthroat from alkaline lakes like Omak. If you have to eat summer trout go up in altitude and get some cold water fish to eat.

[stigman87]

smoke em.. the plants from west med are always warm and muddy my folks hate the taste so i figure throw em back but injured fish and other that cant be let go i put them in the smoker and they turn out just fine

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so in a lot of lowland lakes if fish carry over they can sometimes feed heavily on snails. i caught a bunch of these kind of trout last year and they were really muddy tasting. any ideas on what to do to make them taste less muddy?

The quickest way to remove the muddy taste is to remove the skin from your fish. I use a Townsend Skinner and it works great. It’s simple to use and not that expensive. Since I started skinning trout I will not fry another with the skin on. You can see it by going to this link: http://www.binningoutdoors.com