pmmpete:
I was out of circulation from fishing for two weeks due to a 10-day 200-mile kayak trip on the Dolores River in southwest Colorado and eastern Utah. As soon as I got back, I headed to Lindbergh Lake for a day of Lake Trout fishing. It was fun, until I got chased off the lake by a series of wind and snow squalls.
YippieKaiyak:
Gorgeous lake and... laker? :) Wish I could join you out there. Looks amazing.
PablitoPescador:
Nice work! You make it look easy
Dwight:
What do you prefer as the best way to prepare lake trout for the table?
pmmpete:
--- Quote from: Dwight on May 20, 2017, 11:21:27 AM ---What do you prefer as the best way to prepare lake trout for the table?
--- End quote --- Any salmon recipe works fine with lake trout. Here is a favorite easy recipe for lake trout, kokanee, or whatever: Sprinkle the lake trout fillets with black pepper, slather them with peach-mango or pineapple salsa, and bake them at 400 degrees until they are done. Walmart sells a nice peach-mango salsa.
The lake trout from Flathead Lake, Lindbergh Lake, and other lakes that I am aware of in Western Montana are not at all oily, and they taste a lot like salmon. However, in lakes which have a lot of kokanee, like Odell Lake in Washington, lake trout can be quite oily. Flathead Lake used to have a great kokanee fishery, and the lake trout were very oily. Old timers joked that if you tried to barbeque a lake trout, it would catch on fire. But after the introduction of mysis shrimp to Flathead Lake, the kokanee fishery completely disappeared, and the lake trout are no longer oily.