Recipes / Methods for Cooking Trout with a Jetboil Minimo

One of the great things about the MiniMo is that the burner has a great simmering capability. You should be able to avoid scorching the pot.

Cook rice and steam the trout on top.  The rice will absorb a lot of the juices.  My 2 cents.

Wood fire, hot dry rock (NOT from a river), and a little oil. Very old.

Cheers

for easy cooking and clean up use parchment paper bags cut to your desired length. 1/2cup water in minimo, put seasoned fish in bag, steam cook in bag. Eat directly out of bag.

Unless you’re a fabulous fisherman, don’t count on supplementing calories with fish on a well-traveled trail.  Someone else has already caught all the dumb fish along the PCT.

Can it be done?  Sure.  I know one Alaskan (out of hundreds) who I think could rely on catching fish in that setting.  And I know one Californian (out of many hundreds) who I’ve seen repeatedly go out fishing on a day when everyone else was getting 0 or 1 or 2 come back to camp quietly.  Did you catch any, Ron?  Yeah.  A lot?  Some.  How many?  Hmm, about 60.  Those two guys can think like a fish.  If you’re not that guy, don’t go below 1.5 pounds of food a day, unless you want to lose 1/2 pound of body weight each day and then you can carry a bit under a pound/day and hope for fish.

Also realize that making miles takes time but fishing also takes time.  You can’t do big miles AND catch fish.  In the Aleutians?  Yeah, I can.  On some tributary of the Yukon?  Sure.  Kayaking coastal Alaska?  Yup.  The PCT?  Nope.  Hike off-trail from the PCT for 1-2 miles and into some hanging valley with a lake in it?  MUCH better chances there.

But as to your actual question:  It doesn’t take much time or temperature to cook fish.  Less than almost any other thing in your food bag.  Stupid easy AND cheap?  A $1 Knorr Pasta Side or Rice Side from Walmart.  Put fillets in with rice/pasta in the pouch.  Add boiling water.  Leave in a cozy for 7 minutes.  Done!

For the foil-packet option (where you can have wood fires), bring some condiments packets from restaurants.  Soy sauce.  Salsa.  Salt & pepper.  Sriracha sauce.  Duck sauce.  Etc.  Use a different one each night.