Man I would catch trout high in the mountains, clean them in the water... stick them straight in a pan with wild onions, butter and scramble some eggs.
or smoke them.
yup there I was smoking a dang fish
Three examples here in Fla.:
1.Yellowtail: Great eating fish. rules are ten per person over 12",bad rule. Should be 6-10 of fish all over 14".Let them breed,keep more fish around.
2. Jewfish/Goliath Grouper--no bag limit,fish are not allowed to be killed at all.
Results are they become the apex predator on hundreds of Gulfside wrecks and now the reef as well.
Jewfish eat juvenile grouper,small undersized crawfish,many hooked fish and put pressure on other places where they are not found.
Bad rule but fishery regulators won't even discuss bag and size limits which are desperately needed.
3. Red Snapper:bag and size limits open very rarely and rules and regs desperately need an overhaul.
These fish are so plentiful in the panhandle of Fla. that they have become a nuisance fish.Have to be released and there are so many of them todays regs are little more than stupid.Fishery regulators once again are slow, impossibly slow, to right their wrongs on this species as well.