Seatrout!

[Leo]

Fun to catch and fabulous to eat! We caught nine today. Here's a couple of them.

It's kind of early to catch legal size trout here. I sure didn't expect to catch seatrout today. But they were there! I'm not complaining. We couldn't find the reds at all.

These will be Creole breaded and served with Almondine.

[Shaun_300]

Congrats on the catch Leo! This may be a dumb question, but I take it they're a saltwater species?

[rookieee]

nice pics, we have plenty of them gator down here in south florida

[Illinois59]

Makes me hungry just looking at them. Enjoy!

[atthewall]

Congratulations Leo!! Excellent eating right there and what a blast to catch!

[Leo]

Congrats on the catch Leo! This may be a dumb question, but I take it they're a saltwater species?

Well in my opinion that's not really so dumb a question.

Quite a few fish species can be found and caught in both freshwater and saltwater. Here's a couple examples. Striped bass are one of those species. They are primarily saltwater fish but they adapt to freshwater quite easily. Salmon are also primarily saltwater fish they also do well in fresh water. They both are found land locked in many freshwater impoundments. In fact they are found in so many fresh water lakes now some people are surprised to see them come out of the ocean.

Tarpon can survive in freshwater but it severely stunts their growth (usually not exceeding 10lbs). So not all saltwater species that can make it in freshwater are a good fit for freshwater stocking.

As far as I know seatrout cannot survive freshwater. It's a shame because they are darn fun to catch. They readily take lures. We caught these mostly on Gulp Saltwater Shrimps on 5/16 ounce jigs. Until the tide moved up into the grass and then we switched tactics. We started using a DOA shrimp suspended about 18inches under a Cajun Rattler cork. The cork/DOA combo is really useful when the tide makes it up into the grass. The trout move up into the grass with the tide where you can't cast to them. They won't come out of the grass to just attack a jig. But you can get them to come out. You cast the Cork/DOA shrimp combo upstream near the grass and "pop" it a couple times as it drifts towards you. The pop/rattle calls the fish out of the grass to investigate. They see the DOA shrimp near where the noise came from and nail it. It's important when you do this technique to react quickly when the cork goes down. Keep your rod tip down and line tight or you'll miss lots of hits.

[backwoods07]

Sounds very scientific....I like my fish nice and dumb

[stevebeilgard]

good looking catch, leo. way to go

[ruttinbuc]

We have a sea run strain of Brown Trout here. They say they are quite the fighter and excellent table fare. Maybe one day I'll get down to try and catch one.

Those trout sound like they are a real trip, Leo...