Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => The Fish Kitchen => Topic started by: Xgolfman on March 08, 2007, 06:03:30 PM
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Man, I've heard from a few guys that their steelhead is soft or tastes funny etc and they don't eat it...I wanted Roe so if I'm keeping the fish, I'm eating her too...
I cleaned, filleted it and deboned it....I put Johnny's salmon seasoning on it with brown sugar on top, then I melt a stick of butter in a pan, add Worcestershire sauce and lemon juice, I pour this over the fish....I Bar B Q it for about 10 to 15 minutes...and it is near the best fish I have eaten,,,I have teenaged daughters who are fussy eaters....They scarfed this fish, so did the wife and well, I'm full up too...Dogs are even in on the skin now...
What a wonderful fish!!!
Think i need a new tattoo... ;)
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It tastes like trout. I dont like the taste of trout. I dont keep steelhead or trout so they are all released with exception. The only way I will keep a trout is if my wife wants one for dinner. I kept some trout from Corbett and smoked them as I thought they might taste better smoked. I was wrong. Luckily my family liked it.
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I ate my steelhead a couple weeks ago and I loved it. It tasted great. Ya it tastes great to me but to everyone has their own opinions.
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The first hatchery I ever bonked didn't taste that good at all, but I thought it may be do that it was a mid march fish. All the ones since I thought were great!! I like them almost as much as Sockeye!! I think it just depends on the person. Everyone is different! ;)
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Different taste for different folks. I love pan fried trout. Yummy.
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I love steelhead, and I dont think it tastes like trout at all. It's in my top 3 favourite fish for eating ;)
I guess people just have different tastes. My sister won't eat any fish, but steelhead for some reason ??? ???
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I love shrimp fed interior trout if they come out of the right lakes.
I've only had Steelhead a few times and enjoyed it. I found the ones we ate to be milder than Salmon.
How you treat the fish after you kill it will determine (in most cases) how it tastes when you eat it.
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SMOKED ISN'T THE GREATEST !
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I wont kill one unless im going to smoke it.
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I'm a big fan of the eating steelhead. It's really grown on me lately. I find it to readily absorb the flavor of what I'm cooking it in and the flesh is much more moist than most salmon.
BB, I would hardly call Corbett trout the cream of the crop. They've been pellet fed their entire lives and I'm sure they probably taste about as good as a farmed fish. When your up in the boo this spring try eating some insectivorous trout from a small lake (other than Dragon, they taste like mud). I guarantee you will not be disappointed. For a reference, here are some chunks of rainbow trout from one of the lakes I frequent in the spring time. The flesh looks exactly the same as sockeye.
(http://gallery.fishbc.com/albums/SpringTrip05/P1010451a.jpg)
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Biff I have tasted trout from here and all over the province. Just dont have a taste for it. Allot of my family is from Quesnel and growing up I did a ton of fishing up there. Didnt like the fish than and dont like it now.
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(http://gallery.fishbc.com/albums/SpringTrip05/P1010451a.jpg)
That is what the trout looks like from a lake that I used to have a cabin on in the cariboo. No pellet feed trout there.pure mountain madness.
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I hear you biffcan...I'm not a Tunkwa trout fan...but this steelhead held the seasoning better then the salmon I use it on...and was very moist...excellent eating fish....I bet river trout would taste good too but I just can't bonk those guys...C&R pretty much all my trout after eating a tunkwa once...but they sure didn't look like yours...
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Iv'e stopped killing Steelhead for the last three seasons now - and quite frankly I've lost the incentive to drift for them any more other than Boxing Derby day with my Son who desperately wants to win it. He's 10, so good luck ::). I'm not a fan of the taste of Steelhead. They're just okay same day fresh and I would sooner take some Sockeye out of the freezer than eat fresh Steelhead. That's my taste and choice. I now primarily fly fish for Steelies and in my opinion, one fly caught and released Steelie means more to me than 10 drift gear caught Steels.
I won't even go out on rainy days anymore, nor will I go out on weekends with the crowds. Now for Fraser Reds, I'll be out there in a hurricane 'cause I'm killing the first 10 that I catch.
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bb2000, ditto, wasn't impressed with the taste. Just like trout, I would much rather have a nice fresh salmon. But they are still fun to catch but I will not keep another.
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Just ate some steelhead for the first time, pretty good eatin but alot softer meet compared to salmon and not as much taste. Sockeye is still my favorite, then coho, then probabbly jack spring and steelhead. Add some favor and you got delicious!
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I love steelhead, then again it's hard to find a food I don't like ;D Steelhead like most trout has a softer taste, and doesn't fair well to feezing unless you do it right. I don't think it's fair to compare it too salmon, just a different type of taste and fish altogether, mind you I think pinks sort of have a trout quality to them :D I treat pinks, and bows the same, I only bonk them if they're going to be smoked or eaten with a day or so.
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Jamie, you're bang on about the Pinks. if it's silver and I'm going to BBQ it within a few hours I may swat the poor thing. Otherwise they are C&R only for me. There are so many Pinks and so few S/H, I just don't see the point of whacking a S/H when I have Sockeye in the freezer. But that's me.
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I had not eaten a steelhead for about twelve years until I took a hatchery hen on the Kitimat in the spring. I had forgotten that they taste just like trout to me. I enjoyed it and would keep another in the future.
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Are steelhead good to smoke?
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Personally I like trout but I'm not a big fan of eating the larger Steelhead. I might kill one a year for a meal of fresh fish or if a friend wants one. I just as soon release them for another angler to enjoy. Plus I would sooner eat the salmon from the freezer than whack a big Steely.
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Nice pics, Biffchan...those things fought hard too...
I prefer eating good trout to steelhead. If you cook steelhead right, of course it will taste good, but a good trout will have much more fat on it. The color will be redder than a steelhead, and you can harvest them more easily from put and take lakes.
Shrimp and daphnia fed trout all the way!