Trout--What they taste like?

[RoadToad]

People say Striper tastes like Orange Roughy, and vice versa. I've never had trout. What does trout taste like? Some guy at Walmart told me it tastes like Catfish that was eating too much SauerKraut when it was caught. Is that true?

I love trout, and I'm wondering how that guy at Walmart prepared his, because that's nothing like what it tastes like. Trout are in the same family as salmon, and to me that's the closest comparison. Basically they taste like a milder-flavored salmon. When we catch the little "stockers" they put in the local ponds, I scale them, then the missus scores the sides with a knife, marinates them for just a short time (15-20 minutes is plenty), then bakes them, and they're really good, although as Art pointed out, they're kind of bony. Now, if the ones your cooking are big enough, then you can butterfly filet them, and stuff them with some bacon and green onions and whatever else you want. That's called Trout Hemingway, and that is some AWESOME eatin'!

So what kind of freshwater fish tastes like tuna fish, or what kind of freshwater fish can I "tune-up" to taste like "Tuna-Fish".

I have no clue on this.

Last question........do crayfish really taste like shrimp? Or do they just tell ya that to get you to buy them? Isn't a crayfish really just a freshwater baby lobster?

Eating crayfish is really two different eating experiences, one when you eat the tails, and one when you **** out the heads. The tails, to me, compare most closely to little bitty lobster tails, but they're not quite the same (remember, crayfish come from freshwater, lobsters from salt). The heads, if the 'dads were cooked right, taste like a kind of buttery, spicy, slurry. Otherwise, they taste like something you might have dipped out of Floyd's Fork where it runs past Miles Park.