Grilled Trout and White Rice
Just For Fun, Seasonal, Tastebuds July 10, 2022
Grilled Trout Ingredients:
- Fresh River Trout (frozen or store-bought also works)
- Garlic Butter (here’s the recipe I used if you want to make homemade https://www.thekitchn.com/garlic-butter-recipe-23229971#post-recipe-298180959)
- Half a White Onion roughly chopped
- TBSP. of salt
White Rice Ingredients:
- 1 c long grain rice like jasmine
- 1 1/2 c water(I used Chicken Broth)
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 cube vegetable or chicken bouillon
- salt+pepper to taste
- parsley flakes (optional)
Grilled Trout Instructions:
- Make sure the fish is cleaned and then add onions and garlic butter into the cavity.
- Add salt then wrap in aluminum foil
- Place on a grill at a minimum of 400 degrees.
- Let cook flipping every so often for about 20 to 25 minutes.
White Rice Instructions:
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Over medium heat, add butter, oil, and bouillon cube to a skillet or pan. Whisk to dissolve the cube then add the rice. Coat the rice with the oil mixture and add the water.
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Bring to a bubbly boil then drop the heat to low. Allow the rice to absorb the water according to your rice package directions. You may use quick-cooking or standard rice.
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Fluff the rice and season with a dash of salt and pepper if desired. Dried parsley flakes add a nice pop of color.
In the summer especially here in the south, it means time to break out the fishing poles, and after you catch them the best way to eat the trout is grilled. This is my recipe for how I cooked the fish and the side I served with them. This is my favorite way to serve white rice, it’s packed full of flavor and is so yummy!
If you’re camping this can also be done over the fire just be careful how close you put the fish to the flames you don’t want to char them. There are also other ways to cook river trout, you can fry them or bake them in the oven its really just your preference.
The rice is so versatile that it can be served as a side for anything. However, if the dish it is on the side has a lot of flavor on its own it might be best to just cook plain. I also don’t use this when I’m planning on making fried rice.
Setting a record, Wyatt Stokes’ catfish from Carters Lake
Fetching Featured May 31, 2020
ELLIJAY, Ga. – Wyatt Stokes, 13, has become a popular name in the fishing community in less than a month because of one catfish caught early on May 6.
Wyatt Stokes poses on the boat with his catch during a previous fishing trip.
Wyatt was with his father, Jamie Stokes, as they made a common trek from the house to nearby Carter’s Lake. Arriving early in the dawn, they began fishing for Striper in the lake at a favorite spot near the Ridgeway Park Boat Ramp.
However, young Wyatt grew bored of Striper after a time and his father suggested he swap over to Catfish. Jamie tells FYN that he suggested it to Wyatt because they had been biting more lately and it could be a little better catch.
Neither could know just how right he was. Jamie said it wasn’t long at all, on Wyatt’s first cast, that he got a bite. On the other end of that bite was a 41 lbs 12 oz Catfish. A “monster” in the lake. In the ensuing struggle, nearly a full hour passed before Wyatt finally pulled the massive fish onto the bank of the lake.
Jamie says that the two fish nearly every day, Wyatt will often visit two large ponds near their house when he can’t make it to Carters Lake. They have also fished in several tournaments as well, so fighting and dealing with common tricks of the fish was merely a waiting game and test of patience for the 13-year-old as the hour passed. With nearly a 20 feet cast a run before he set the hook, Wyatt has a hard fight> But as he finally pulled the humongous flathead catfish up on the bank, the excitement of both the men overflowed as Jamie said that just seeing his son’s joy at what he accomplished “was worth a million bucks.”
Wyatt Stokes poses on the boat with his catch during a previous fishing trip.
Fishing from the bank of the lake as they always do for striper and catfish, Jamie said that this fish turned out to be the only thing they caught that day, but as they celebrated the catch, neither of them had any thoughts about it being a record. Rather, they just celebrated a massive catch.
In fact, Wyatt himself wold FYN that he was trying to decide whether to just release it or give it to a friend at first. It wasn’t until a phone call to his grandfather that the suggestion came up that they should have it officially weighed, which began a whole new process of finding certified scales.
Jamie said they were looking around and were originally looking at weighing it at Ingles in Ellijay, but didn’t think the scale would go high enough as they capped in the thirties. Ultimately, two days later, they found certified scales at ACE Hardware and followed up with an official weight.
At 41 lbs 12 oz, the official record had been broken. And so, at 13 years old, Wyatt Stokes has become a record holder for the largest Flathead Catfish in Carter’s Lake.
But when asked how excited he was about it now, Wyatt said, “That ain’t too much to me, I’m going to have another one here in a little bit.”
Jamie said that Wyatt has been fishing as long as he could fit a pole in his hand, but at six years old, he could bait, cast, and reel the fish in on his own. Growing up in the sport, Wyatt has already had nearly seven years of experience of his own to build on. He said he was going to continue on as normal switching around on what he is fishing for. He said it was competition that he enjoys with fishing. A hard competition was exactly what he got as he said the catch incredibly difficult.
He tells FYN that he and his family wound up eating the record fish.