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Joined: Jun 2006
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I have now killed 7 5-6" rainbows in my new 110 gallon growout tanks. Now I am left wondering what can be done with these young trout. I have thought about throwing them out in the garden, feeding them to the cats, and freezing them until I have fish big enough to eat them.
What do you do with your dead fish?
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Hate to see rainbows go to the cats but they would love you for it. I usually take any fish I can't eat that dies and turn em into compost. My grandmaw started me on that.
Each year I would go to a pond in the spring and bring back 2 dozen small bluegill and "plant" one under each of her two dozen rose bushes.
She paid me 50 cents a piece for them which was good money to fish and dig a small hole to a kid anyway.
I don't know most instances I would just toss them for fertilizer but with them being trout something just feels wrong about that. I guess that is really silly a fish is a fish once dead but for some reason it just seems a trout should have a more noble purpose then rotting in the dirt,
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I know what you mean. I stuck them in the freezer for now. I thought about using them as bait when the ice gets thick enough, but that seems wrong as well. Then again whatever hits a 5-6" trout will make me forget all about it!
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I'm not sure what will really hit a thawed or frozen trout. Snapping turtle for sure; maybe a catfish???
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
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I was hoping a 21" perch.... 
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