05-17-2019, 11:22 PM
Hello,
Today, I caught a 22-inch, 4.2 lb rainbow trout. I also caught a smaller trout that I had to keep, because it was going to die if I released it due to me hooking it on the Gill.
I started processing the fish, when I noticed something interesting. Both fillets were different colors. The smaller fish, which had a clipped fin, obviously a stocked trout, had much darker meat. The meat from the larger fish was almost white, with a little bit of pink. I am attaching a picture.
This got me thinking, and I have a question for you all. Why is some trout meat one color and some trout meat another?
Jared
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Today, I caught a 22-inch, 4.2 lb rainbow trout. I also caught a smaller trout that I had to keep, because it was going to die if I released it due to me hooking it on the Gill.
I started processing the fish, when I noticed something interesting. Both fillets were different colors. The smaller fish, which had a clipped fin, obviously a stocked trout, had much darker meat. The meat from the larger fish was almost white, with a little bit of pink. I am attaching a picture.
This got me thinking, and I have a question for you all. Why is some trout meat one color and some trout meat another?
Jared
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