How To Clean Trout
Headless
- Slit from anal opening to the gills
- Cut esophagus, grab the viscera and pull out the insides
- Scrape with the back of your thumb the dark line at top of cavity that serves
as the trout's kidney
- Cut Head off just behind the lateral fins by the gulls
With the Head on
- Make slit from the alnal opening as far into the V between
the gills as the knife will go
- Make slit underneath form gill to gill
- Grab palate with thumb and forefinger and pull down and
to the back. All the viscera will come out in one hunk
- Scrape with the back of your thumb the dark line at to of cavity that serves
as the trout's kidney
- Head remains attached by the top and backbone
NYS Conservationist October, 1999
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