First Time Trout Smoker

4BK-BGE-nundrum

Here is a long intro to a request for your suggestions:

I’ve been making an annual trip up to the High Sierras now for 38 years. I have found memories of my Father, Grandfather and I catching rainbow, browns and brooks. We would go with a large group and the lodge would take all the trout caught half-way through the week and smoke it for the group, to be split at the end of the trip. It seems I can still smell the wood smoke drifting through the mountain. In my late teens, my High School buddies and I starting making the trip. Some years we lived off the land … others we starved, but great memories it made. In my early twenties my best friend and I discovered a cylindrical water smoker and we have spent the last 19 years perfecting our craft at smoking freshly caught trout. In our mid to late 20’s we began bringing our newly sprouting families to the same spot. We are preparing our annual trek again, but this is the first year that the BGE will be waiting for our return.

I tell you all this, to help express my passion for smoking trout and ask your help with some of your recipes for making incredible smoke trout. I have a saltwater and spice brine I have been using for years, but would love suggestions of yours. I would also like suggestions on temp & time (I’m guessing indirect heat) for the 12-18 inch fish, as my water smoke only had “Hot” and “Ideal” as a temperature gauge.

Thank you fellow anglers and BGE’rs

4BK-BGE-nundrum

Help,fishing trip is 30 days out. There must be some trout smokers out there. A cylinder water smoker with charcole can't be better than the BGE. Any help would be great!! :blink: