Smoked Trout Marinade

Limestone Springs Smoked Trout Marinade makes it easy for any of us to create and enjoy delicious smoked trout (or other fish if you must..). The recipe for our curing brine originated in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, where trout is always the fish of the day! After passing around from one smoked trout aficionado to another for nearly 100 years (like a guarded moonshine recipe!), our friends and premier trout smokers at Pocono Mountain Trout Company agreed to share the formula with us, and you.

Smoking Directions

Use a minimum 16 oz. of Limestone Spring Smoked Trout Marinade to cure up to 5 pounds of trout by soaking and refrigerating the trout in the marinade for about 24 hours. Discard excess liquid (marinade will have fish juices mixed in – do not reuse) and follow the directions (suggestions) for your smoker. You might also try smoking with your gas grill. Place a foil pack of damp woodchips (hickory is our favorite) over just one low heat burner and arrange the trout to indirectly heat on the other portions of the grill for about an hour. Warning, if you eat warm smoked trout, there might not be any left for your guests! (see below)

For a little extra variety, experiment with soaking times, smoking times, wood chips, or your own extras to the marinade like garlic, Cajun spices, seafood spices, bay leaf…

By the way, if you need delicious, fresh, carefully farm raised Rainbow Trout, we can help with that too!

Serving Suggestions

Our favorite serving suggestion is to top a favorite cracker with smoked trout, red onion, caper, and maybe just a touch of cream cheese. Please visit our website limestonespringspreserve.com for more about recipes, smoking and serving ideas. We would love to hear about your creative use of this marinade. Please drop us an email so that we can try it and impress our friends:

info@limestonespringspreserve.com

By the way, if you need delicious, fresh, carefully farm raised Rainbow Trout, we can help with that too!

Rainbows - not just for catching!

Rainbow trout are of course great to catch! But they're just as great to eat - and you are now hooked up with a premier Pennsylvania grower who offers some of the freshest rainbow trout you'll ever have. You can even catch them yourself at the farm.

Aqua-Life, Inc. is Pa's leading producer of rainbow trout. From the Limestone Springs Trout Hatchery and Fishing Preserve, near Richland in Lebanon County, PA, Aqua-Life, Inc.’s dedicated fish farmers carefully hatch, feed, clean, scrub, and generally keep a 2 year watchful eye as the rainbow trout grow from “two eyes and a wiggle” to the one pound trout selected for dining out. Each day is spent monitoring oxygen and water conditions (trout ventilation), incubating eggs and baby sitting the small fry, feeeeeeeeeding the fingerlings (they’re ALWAYS hungry), separating the bigger ones from each other (big fish eat little fish), harvesting orders for stocking or market, and keeping track of all the details including, “Exactly where are the 2 million trout?” In the concrete raceways of the farm, answering that question is actually not that hard, since all fish are tracked routinely for size and numbers as they grow. By growing, harvesting, and processing under a careful HACCP protocol, farm raised rainbows from Limestone Springs are always beautiful!

The lasting beauty of these rainbows is that catching is as easy as ordering! No trout are harvested until ordered. Orders by noon are usually at our customers' doors the next morning! Now that's fresh!