How To Clean A Lake Trout

Make the second cut at the end of the digestive tract slide your fingers under everything inside and pull out.

How to clean a lake trout. Clean the remaining trout with cold water removing and blood stuck to ribs or the spine. Boil the lids and close up the jars. Hold the head or tail end with one hand to keep the fish in place.

In pint jar add 1 tsp salt 1 tsp vinegar fish and 1 tbp Russian dressing The recipe is very simplesalt vinegar and Russian salad dressing. Use your thumb to scrape. 2016-06-30 You can slide your fingers under the guts to pick them up.

2018-08-04 Hook your finger in the trouts mouth and pull downward. After cutting the gills you should clean it as soon as possible. 2012-03-12 Join Bear Paw Lodges Darcy Lehtonen as he shows you how to clean and prepare a lake trout for proper smoking.

There will be little resistance. Rinse the trout under cool running water. Its not just the cleaning that counts To truly treat your taste buds place your freshly caught fish on ice and preferably not submerged in melted ice.

Try using a hose or water bottle if you are camping. Once the innards have been removed youll notice a dark blood vein running the length of your fishs backbone. Step 2 Place the trout on a cutting board.

2013-09-13 A regular lake trout has a fat content from 6-9 and a siscowet has from 50 up to 70from what I recall reading They are basically inedible. Take fish off of the ice when starting to clean. This will preserve the flavor of the meat and remove some of the stronger flavors in the blood.