Went out to Desire today with some brand new Rapala type lures with hopes of landing my first ever Bass. It was about 2:00 and I had the dock all to myself wich is good as I was hoping to get some casting in. After about 40 cast's and 4 different lures with all kinds of different types of reeling, slashing, jerking movements... Nada. So decided to go to my ol' faithful and put out a 3 or 4 foot bottom fishing gear on. Loaded up a small hook with bright green powerbait ball and casted out. Sat down on the dock and waited. 'Bout 15 minutes later there was a large splash way out there. I was looking at it going "man, I wish that is where I should have casted". It jumped again and I saw the nice purple color of it's side, then I noticed my pole was dancin all over the place and I got all excited! Reeled her in and landed my largest Trout to date (only been fishing for 1.5 years). It was a very nice and fat 16-18" rainbow and I was happy.
I got home and fryed it up and was dismayed at the color of the meat. I need some help here on this one. I am used to my little 10" bows to be grey or whitish in color onced cooked up but this one had a distinctive pink or orange color similar to a salmon. My wife and I didn't know any better so we decided not to eat it for fear of getting sick? What happened? is this normal?
All in all it was a great day!

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