JessAlynn Loc: Bastrop, Texas

I surprised my godmother and I with some dock devil rods (which to my surprise are some little badass rods, mind blown 🤯) and a mini tackle box after we decided to visit Medicine Park, OK yesterday. Only ended up catching a 6 inch bluegill while creek fishing, BUT I found out that the OK fisheries released the rainbow trout for the year!
A really nice older couple gave us 4 stringers of their catches that day! We took home 12 gorgeous rainbow trout hybrids and I cleaned and cooked 4 of the big females. Talk about an opportunity of kindness! I will post the pictures of the fish, the cooking and the finished product.
The trout must have been crossbreed with a similar species because they had odd patterning, some had 'goat eyes' or a dark brown bar in the gold background and 3 had mutated right pectoral fins (they were stumpy). Gorgeous fish in any case though!

After field dressing all of them, I ended up preparing the trout in a dill, garlic and lemon pepper browned butter sauce, baked, span seared and finished the fish off on a charcoal grill. With it was fried garlic red potatoes and wilted spinich and I topped the fish with dried cranberries.

To be honest, I hadn't fished or cooked trout in over 20 years since I have been living in the south. I am pretty proud it came back to me like riding a bike and ended up making some amazing memories.

It was awesome and I get to take home 6 ready to cook trout to make for my husband when I decide to go back home. It was an amazing day and I am keeping those damned poles because I didn't expect them to be so beastly, lol.

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

Looks delicious.

GLA Loc: WA State

Nicely done...all the way around :>)

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

The little Ice fishing poles are great fun for those with no ice.

JessAlynn Loc: Bastrop, Texas

I respooled the spinning reel on mine with 10 lb braid 🤣. I hate monofilament with the intensity of a million burning suns, useless garbage on any reel in any size, but that's my humble opinion 😇.
ANYWHO, they cast further a with more precision than any finesse type setup I have used so far, and I am holding on to them. Very pleasant surprise.

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

The stubby pectoral fins are from swimming around the hatchery walls, they wear them down. I think they are just normal rainbow plants. The plants don't have the color the wild ones have
It was very nice for you to take your godmother fishing. I never knew who my god parents were.

JessAlynn Loc: Bastrop, Texas

Thanks, that is good to know! The markings, like strips of pure silver, teal spotting and patches of iridescent copper scales led me to believe that they were crossbreed with American Brook trout and European brown trout to make them hardier.

Dennisjj Loc: Kinston N.C.

You go jess nice job you did all the way around i see what you were talking about nothing wrong with that.

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

The whorls on that one near the middle make me think that you may be correct about the cross breeding. Rainbows don't generally have whorls, they have spots. Brook "trout" have whorls and they're not really trout, they're a char. I don't know if they would do that to make them "hardier" as you suspect. A rainbow trout is an incredibly robust critter. Like salmon, if they have access to the ocean they live most of their lives out there playing with the big kids, then migrate to fresh water to spawn, and, unlike salmon, they survive that journey and return to the ocean. They're also known as steelhead. You can look it up.

plumbob Loc: New Windsor Maryland

Don't think I am the only one that got hungry and could actually smell them cooking. You must have paid it forward at some time Jess A with the older couple giving you their catch. What goes around comes around. Nice going and if you ever come east, we will fill your cooler full of trout.

JessAlynn Loc: Bastrop, Texas

Thank yah kindly!

☺️ they ended up accidentally keeping my fishing tool, but I always give away my catches when kayaking and when I forage that gets donated to the Foragers Against Child Hunger program that I started in Wichita Falls.

JessAlynn Loc: Bastrop, Texas

Well I meant to make them more heat resistant since they are a colder water Species

Alabamafisherman Loc: Jasper Alabama

Well looks like Jess done went and done it again

BankStalker Loc: Friendswood TX

no mono smh :)

Alabamafisherman Loc: Jasper Alabama

I actually use it on my catfish rods. Never had any problems but I do know Jess don't like it. Lol