Scots Willing to give Yankee Trout a Chance

I’ll forgive the Scots for inventing golf because it looks like they might be willing to accept our “easier to catch” rainbow trout. That’s big of the Britons. The Sunday Times of London says good ole’ American rainbows are perfectly alright because they’re, uh, tasty and easy to catch?

More plentiful and available now than the slower-growing brown trout, they are also easier to catch - if you happen to be fishing lochs and rivers stocked with rainbow trout.

Though it’s too cold for them to breed naturally, they are still wild in the sense that they take their character from their native environment. So in a well-oxygenated loch with good feeding, this means a firm-fleshed, sweet-tasting fish.

Next time you’re holding a butterstick brown trout in your hand, try to hear him muttering to himself (in a Scottish accent, of course): ” Taste, though, is the final judgment.”