Tiger trout ? Not sure any suggestions

[Dave B.]

Originally Posted by deaone123

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...I only kept it because it was slimier then A eel and i could not grip it so i ran quite a bit to my car for my boga grips and i noticed it was bleeding a lot so i kept it i would have rather released but a fish that will prob die is pointless to release to me.

Sorry I missed this part on my initial read-thru. Listen, don't apologize for keeping a legally caught, legal sized fish. All the hype and hoopla over C&R these days is borderline ridiculous when it comes to stocked fish. Keep if you choose, release if you choose. So long as you're following the regs it's strictly a matter of personal choice.
I imagine you would have felt better being able to release this particular fish since tigers are a bit of a rarity, but this one and thousands more like it have come from some private hatchery somewhere and were stocked specifically to be caught. It's not like you were on some gem of a WTS and happened upon a rare wild tiger. Even then though, one of that size would likely be near the end of it's lifespan anyway, so again not necessarily a great moral crime to consume it.

As for the 'slimier than an eel' part, yep. That's the brook trout genes in them. Brookies for whatever reason are much slimier than browns or 'bows. In fact most 'char' seem to share that trait, including lakers.