Eating your caught fish

I've seen a few people mention to avoid salmon, steelhead, and lake trout. Would brook trout fall under the same category? Thanks

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Originally Posted by Ata83

Fillet the fish, and remove fats, and dont feed to fast growing infants and pregnant women.
ull be fine with 1 feeding a week.
been eating lake ontario salmon for a long time. havent grown 4th hand, just the regular 3 hands ... lol

We simply dont know if its better or worse than farmed fish from grocery store.
been reading about micro plastic making its way to fish muscle also, something thats not monitored or measured even. so im not sure if a bit of mercury is our biggest worry at this point.

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When I started looking into the safety I realized even the store bought stuff has it's issues too. I heard that the farmed stuff uses an additive to make salmon, and I assume any other pink fish look pink.

That's true about the microplastics too, I didn't think of that.

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Originally Posted by macaw

When I started looking into the safety I realized even the store bought stuff has it's issues too. I heard that the farmed stuff uses an additive to make salmon, and I assume any other pink fish look pink.

That's true about the microplastics too, I didn't think of that.

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I've toured the fish pens of rainbow trout up in the north channel. The buyer (say Dominion) would come up to inspect the pens they were to purchase. The seller (farm operator) would bring out a book of pictures and ask the buyer "which photo looks like what you want your fillets to look like under glass and lights in the store?". The seller would then adjust the red dye number 7 added to the food pellets for the next few weeks. When the fish were ready for market, they looked just like the picture buddy picked. It's true!
I'll take a wild speck that's been eating hellgrammites and stonefly nymphs any day. Natural orange tasty flesh. :)

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Originally Posted by TroutSlayer;[URL="tel:1210258"

1210258[/URL]]I've toured the fish pens of rainbow trout up in the north channel. The buyer (say Dominion) would come up to inspect the pens they were to purchase. The seller (farm operator) would bring out a book of pictures and ask the buyer "which photo looks like what you want your fillets to look like under glass and lights in the store?". The seller would then adjust the red dye number 7 added to the food pellets for the next few weeks. When the fish were ready for market, they looked just like the picture buddy picked. It's true!
I'll take a wild speck that's been eating hellgrammites and stonefly nymphs any day. Natural orange tasty flesh. :)

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Is there any areas would you avoid? As in creeks near the city? Or maybe other red flags for you?

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Originally Posted by macaw

Is there any areas would you avoid? As in creeks near the city? Or maybe other red flags for you?

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Just privite property.

Brook trout are better, because they do not feed on as many small fish as stealhead or salmon, which translates to lower mercury levels. I will say I have eaten a few freshly caught winter and spring run stealhead. Those are some tasty fish especially the smaller ones.