Personaly I stopped to fish there till they go back to $20 fee...$2 is not the point but (always I pay for my dad and son and wife so) as you know income of most of American families decreased and expenses are sky high...hopefully near soon gets better and I would bring my new friends to vine.
Oh brother. here we go. Their trout almost always tasted like dirt. All stocked trout (with -very- few exceptions) taste like mud. Why? Because they are often fed garbage. They spend their lives cramped (which is how they get so damn fat) and usually dont start tasting good until they get a few weeks of free-swimming.
Its similar to grass fed beef, and corn fed beef. Corn fed beef is easy to raise, cheaper. The same with pellet-fed trout. Unfortunately, trout tend to taste like their food- Bland, muddy... PELLETS.
http://www.thefishsite.com/articles/...n-farmed-trout --read this.
Last edited by smokehound; 10-01-2009 at 12:59 AM. Reason: added a link.
well said
this is why i stopped going to the vine in the first place.
i never did *great* there, i hated waiting in a line and being the 30th person back at 2am, the lake is pretty bland, i would much rather pay that money to camp and fish in the sierra's for a weekend.
eh eh eh thats why you get your own boat and wouldnt have to deal with the on land problems ive never had a problem there..get your rental boat or your own and go slay them big trout...