![]() ![]() Right now, the farm can only sell whole fish, which works for high-end restaurants, but Jim hopes to ink a deal with a major seafood company to put in a processing plant in Nashville so the farm can sell filets, which will greatly expand the business’s customer base. Area is grassy and the owner is very friendly - having lived there all his life. “Having fish delivered straight out of the water (within hours) – it just doesn’t get any better.” It's a long drive up a windy road, but it's a beautiful place to fish. “We receive consistent sizing, which I know must require very close attention to detail,” says Jess Benefield, chef and co-owner of The Green Pheasant, also in downtown Nashville. The flesh is sweet and needs very little cooking to provide an experience for anyone.” “It is truly cared for and the freshest caught fish that any purveyor has ever sent me. “Bucksnort trout is the most beautiful trout I have ever had the pleasure of cooking with and serving,” says Meagan Stout, executive chef of Makeready, a restaurant in Nashville’s Noelle Hotel. Currently all the restaurant customers are in Nashville, but in the past Memphis businesses were customers, too – Jim has old advertisements of the famous Peabody Memphis hotel touting its use of Bucksnort trout – so that may change. “We are literally harvesting fish out of the water that morning and delivering them,” Jim says. Fish are packed on ice made from pure spring water and delivered without any plastic, Styrofoam or dry ice. Bucksnort focuses on 1-pound trout grown from the fry stage (it takes about one year for a fry to grow into a 1-pound trout). The team started selling whole, fresh rainbow trout to restaurants, something it had done decades before. So, bucolic Bucksnort was named for a drink. And the best moonshiner in the area was a fellow named Buck. A sip of moonshine was known as a “snort,” Jim says. In the late 1800s, local legend goes, the area was known for its moonshine, thanks in part to the purity of the water in its springs (the same springs that make trout so good today). ![]() ![]() While you might imagine this part of unincorporated Hickman County derives its name from the ruminant mammals who run free, in fact, the memorable moniker comes from something else entirely. ![]()
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