Wildlife recipes
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Crispy oven-fried catfish nuggets
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While deep frying catfish is one of the most popular ways to prepare it, the process itself can be messy. By using your oven or air fryer, you can get similarly tasty results without the grease splatters and lingering aromas of traditional frying methods.
Smoked trout
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Smoking meat over fire is one of the world's oldest food preservation methods, and smoked trout is a dependably delicious way to preserve and serve your catch. Especially when the whole family reels in their limits at your favorite fishery!
Crappie tacos
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When grilled or fried, crappie and other panfish make great fish tacos. Here's a fish taco recipe to try.
Boiled crayfish
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Crayfish, crawfish, crawdads or freshwater lobsters. Whatever you call them, these little crustaceans are abundant in many Utah reservoirs and streams.
Ash trout
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Cooking trout can be an ordeal in the backcountry. This recipe minimizes fish goo, and is simple, delicious and easily achievable after a long day's hike.
