cooking steelhead on Mak

[Gregoryalln]

I finally caught a small hatchery steelhead, I was going to cook it on the Mak, any suggestions on what would be the best way to do it? It's right around 4-5 pounds

 

[ACW3]

Nice fish. The only way I have cooked any steelhead trout is to dry brine the fillets and cold smoke them on my 2 Star. Really good eats. A few members hear have hot smoked some salmon pieces. Do a search on salmon mand see if they come up.

Art

 

[scooter]

One of my favorite game fish! They're gorgeous when they first enter the river system from the sea all lookin like a bright silver bar. I've never cooked one but have caught many.

 

[Carter13]

Nice Springer Allen. Small but still nice. Congrats

 

[Gregoryalln]

I might just smoke it for 15 min then finish it on 250, with some lemon and butter.

 

[Big Poppa]

I think with fish you can bump the temp after smoke to 300

 

[TentHunter]

Like Art said, you can cook it the same as salmon. You can also cook or smoke them like you would any other trout. Lots of possibilities!

Here's a trick with hot smoking salmon we figured out: If you coat them with a Brown sugar rub and put a small pan of hot water in the pit, then they can take a very Hot Smoke (indirect heat) of 325°-350° for 45 min - 1 hour.

Now I know, you'd think cooking them that long would dry them out, but the brown sugar seals them and the water pan provides a moist heat so they stay moist and pickup a lot of smoke in that time.

 

[Gregoryalln]

Thanks guys and Thanks big poppa, I'm going to try smoking half, and cooking the other half.