PF I have to disagree with you again, I eat BRKT from the stream on my property, and from my pond which eat natural food and pellets and cannot tell the difference.
Two years ago I had a friend come up and he heard that pellet fed trout weren't as good, he's a big trout fisherman so we got some from the stream, and some from the pond, he couldn't tell the difference.
Maybe trout with nothing other to eat than pellets might taste different, but if they have a diversity of forage they seem to taste just as good as wild trout.