Camp Cooking Trout?

[Cool Texan]

Anyone have any good recipes for cooking fresh trout on a campfire??

Oh wait...this could start a debate on Catch and Release...hmm....I'll take my chances I guess.

[FallRiverGuy]

I like to wrap the fishing in foil and add lots of salt, pepper, garlic, and butter.

[ampersat]

camp cooking trout is almost always an 'in foil' affair. you could try trout on a stick, but you run the risk of not fully cooking some parts.

basically, whatever appeals to you will work and always put stuff in the cavity area because it absorbs into the flesh better.

[steelhead_fishn]

What we always do when we cook trout at the campfire is the following..

Clean fish
Stuff with butter, pepper, and salt. Add some mike's seafood seasoning(I think it's mikes) It's in a blue bottle at any grocery store.

Wrap up and drop in the fire, or bar b q


Good eating

Jeff

[Smily]

A few years ago my wife bought me one of those baskets that will hold 3 nice fish or 6 smaller ones. That has worked good for me with a little Garlic salt and Lemon pepper and fresh squeezed lemon while eating. Mouth watering thinking about it.
We have also take a Grill on camping trips and charcoals and make a bar-b-q pit in the fire ring and then make our fire after dinner is done.
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[Phish_on]

Mmmmmm ... all of the above. Pan-fried if you've got the pan.

Last camping trip I used the wire basket thing ("fish cooker") and picked a particularly smoky spot and sort of smoke-cooked a little fish, it turned out quite good.

Foil is great, some butter and garlic, pepper or whatever you like. They cook fast by a hot fire - don't burn it!

[Sean]

Try this (I am making this up as I go along, but if it sounds good I may run with it, maybe open a streamside restaurant, franchise them, retire, fish more...). Make a "boat" so to speak out of tin foil, and pour in fresh bacon grease (assumes you have some bacon with you I guess... But why not, we're camping, right?). Anyway, place the cleaned headless HATCHERY fish carcass in the foil boat with the grease, some pepper / onions, whatever, and close, placing on hot coals. Effectively you fry your fish and sautee the onions at the same time. Get both sides by turning the packet over.

Hmmmmmmm.....

[local_hooker]

I load them up with butter, onions, bacon, garlic, salt and pepper, then wrap them in foil and set them in the coals, turn every 5-7 min. depending on how hot the coals are.

Don't forget to get your foil wraped potatoes, and corn on the cob in the coals ahead of time. When you wrap your corn be sure to wrap husk and all, the moisture in the husk steams the corn very well. this meal goes best with cold beer.

Sean

[Carver_OR]

For a true outdoor fire fish fry, use Skunk Cabbage. Take your fish and any spices that you like and roll them up in a couple leaves of skunk cabbage. Throw them into the hot coals and wait for 10 15 minutes. It tastes great and none of the skunk cabbage smell is taken on by the fish. I learned this from a indian in Alaska a long time ago...before it was even a state. Am I really getting that old? geeze.

Pat

Pat

[4Salt]

Carefully clean, and scale the trout. Be sure to remove ALL of the scales. This should take about an hour for a limit. Then throw them all into the garbage, get out the cell phone, and order a pizza! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[deefly]

Jeez! I think Im about to have another coronary! Butter? Bacon? Cut it out you guys! My stent wont take it!! Does a fatty fish like trout really need the above? Really? Someone give me an alternative!
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