They often fit into a frying pan whole with the head off, and are often in the half pound to a pound range like big crappie which are absolutely still considered panfish.
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They often fit into a frying pan whole with the head off, and are often in the half pound to a pound range like big crappie which are absolutely still considered panfish.
First of all,,,,,,,,, trout should not be put in a frying pan..... They should be released. I would hate to see you put a 5# brown in a frying pan.
Trout are considered a Game fish, thats why they are not a pan fish!!!!
Trout are also game fish. However, trout are members of the Salmonid species. All Bass, perch, crappie, walleye, musky, pike and several other fish are of the Panfish species. Totally different species. Kinda like comparing apples and oranges. Just because they both grow on trees doesn't make them the same.
Washington defines most all trout and spiny ray fish as Game Fish including the various types of land locked salmon and even Atlantic salmon. Whereas Common carp, Shad, salmon, sturgeon, tuna, mackerel, bottom fish like cod etc. are classified as Food Fish. Pan fish is not a species by any stretch of science. If anything that title comes from tradition as fishermen called those types of fish, usually spiny ray, even small trout as “pan fish” due to their culinary uses. Salmon likely got the designation as a food fish because of their commercial exploitation where the other fish called “Game Fish” don’t have the history of commercial harvesting in the same way. I’d guess that designating certain types of fish as Game a Fish also has to do with how they are separately managed by game departments. And that’s the truth. 😇
They often fit into a frying pan whole with the head off, and are often in the half pound to a pound range like big crappie which are absolutely still considered panfish.
Washington defines most all trout and spiny ray fish as Game Fish including the various types of land locked salmon and even Atlantic salmon. Whereas Common carp, Shad, salmon, sturgeon, tuna, mackerel, bottom fish like cod etc. are classified as Food Fish. Pan fish is not a species by any stretch of science. If anything that title comes from tradition as fishermen called those types of fish, usually spiny ray, even small trout as “pan fish” due to their culinary uses. Salmon likely got the designation as a food fish because of their commercial exploitation where the other fish called “Game Fish” don’t have the history of commercial harvesting in the same way. I’d guess that designating certain types of fish as Game a Fish also has to do with how they are separately managed by game departments. And that’s the truth. 😇
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You are right CL, I stand corrected. I misspoke sayin that. I should have just said that all those I listed are considered Pan fish, not a species like Salmonid.