With the first day of trout season opening last weekend I was able to get out with my dad and we came back with a small haul of 5 rainbow trout. We cleaned them up and I took them home to brine and then smoke with alder and hickory. As a side experiment I took the heads, cleaned out the gills, salted them and let them sit for 20 minutes, and rinsed them. They then went into a pot of boiling water to simmer for 20-30 minutes and bam! Fresh fish stock!