Finally Trout Season 2013

What a Beautiful day it was,  we sat around this morning and after coffee and after Anna Mae had Physical Therapy for her back we went "Trout Fishing", finally warm enough, the "black flies" were not bad and we got our fishing gear out for the first this year.
     We packed water, worms and gear and went up into the Dunbar State Forest to a little stream we have fished before and we hit a "bonanza" of a fishing day, almost as good as "Spec" or "Bass"  fishing on Lake Okeechobee!!!!!  
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My Honey nailed the first one, it was a nice scrappy "Brook Trout" about 8 inches, it was great to watch it do it's little tail dance across the water as it tries to spit the hook and get away but My Honey dragged it in !!!
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We fished our "secret spot" and had about our limit of 5 Brook Trout each, we had some smaller ones I threw back, as we reached our limit a vehicle came down the dirt road, pulled over and out came a "Game Warden", we chatted a while, he was a LT. and was real nice, he checked our trout for firmness, looked at their gills for fungus and then offered to take our picture for us, he never did ask us for our license which we had.
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I held up our limit of 10 Trout, 5 of them I caught'
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.Anna Mae held up her 5 trout;
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I got out the knife and got ready to clean our catch which is easy on trout as it is only a slice, a twist and done !!
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My Honey helping clean our trophy trout, we had trout over a pound and some almost a foot long!!!
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It is slit the belly, pull, twist and done!
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Trout can be cooked with the heads on or off, it's the old fashioned way to cook them with their heads on as you waste less meat that way. These were ready for My Honey to season and bake, you can also fry them in a pan in butter or wrap them in foil and cook them on the grill.  We only cooked 4 of the big ones and froze the others in a gallon bag in water.
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Anna Mae and I seasoned the trout with Bay, onion powder, put sliced butter inside the gut, and laid them on sliced onion and baked 4 of them 20 minutes on each side.
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The proof is in the pudding so they say!  YUM!!!
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These were delicious with a Tossed Salad, little pickle relish and sourdough bread!!!!!
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Let us not forget our Veterans !!!!
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