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Frederick dunphey · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 6:36 am Post subject: Somethin Different Trout Limit

The wife and I took up winter rainbow trout fishing on the Guadalupe river. Saturday we sight casted to several big girls with no takers and got skunked. I went back for a couple of hours Sunday and pick up a limit 14"-15", no monsters but a relaxing morning on the river.

ziacatcher · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:18 am Post subject:

Nice catch! The scenery is a little bit different than your normal pictures of the port a jetty. Frying those little guys up whole in hot oil until the skin is good and crispy is an awesome treat. Way to go

Frederick dunphey · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:31 am Post subject:

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

Thanks, Frederick! That makes me want to give that a try.
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bd0202 · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 4:39 pm Post subject:

I remember as a kid "Laying into" the rainbow trout in Colorado on conventional rod n reel in a "community" lake. We fried them up just like we knew back home, and all we remember is "salty" being the word of the table.

Go figure, salty rainbow trout - coming from hardcore south Texans that only knew the taste of fresh caught Gulf species.
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Salt On the Brain · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:52 am Post subject:

Nice trout, Fred.
I hear access to your usual spot might be restored by Saturday morning.
Will we see you there?
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Frederick dunphey · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 6:14 am Post subject:

bulldog1935 · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:05 am Post subject:

since I've been a signed-on catch-and-release GRTU volunteer for 30 years, I can't officially condone eating rainbow trout from the Guadalupe.

However, if you paper the little trout out flat, they're amazing. Gut and scrape their kidneys, remove their heads, slide your knife down their spine cutting the ribs at the spine on both sides, and continue along their spine all the way to their tail, and cut out the spine at the tail. Open them up like a piece of paper, and saute in browning butter - no more than 2 min each side. You'll be able to lift out the ribs with your fork, and of course the skin has all the vitamin A.

Please do follow state special regs when you're fishing the Guadalupe tailwater.
these are spawning trout on the Guadalupe

and this is a wild-spawned Guadalupe male

Frederick dunphey · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:20 am Post subject:

bulldog1935 · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:26 am Post subject:

they get pretty up there, bro, and the farther you get away from the pounded spots, the wilder they get

a big buck that barely fit in this pocket, which most people would wade right past
(and my best is 27" and 8 lbs)