Buxton Trout Farm’s A Winner!

If you haven’t been to Buxton Trout Farm, then we suggest you do. It’s a fabulous day out, in Victoria’s Yarra Valley region.  Having been nearly wiped out by the horrific Black Saturday fires, and been challenged again with the recent floods, Buxton deserves your support – so they can keep providing us with their fabulous Trout & Salmon products.  Here’s some info on Buxton…

Buxton Trout and Salmon Farm is a property of 10 acres in Buxton approximately 100km from Melbourne located in the Yarra Valley. The Farm is Australia’s first commercial Trout farm where trout have been reared for over 50 years, the gravity fed water supply originates from the snowfields of Lake Mountain before cascading down Steavenson’s Falls and through its streams providing the perfect place to grow a clean natural food. No antibiotic chemicals or growth hormones are used on our farm.

Buxton’s famous Mountain Ash Smoked trout and caviar are gourmet items which are highly regarded by Buxton trout farm’s customers. Our smoked trout are cooked over a mountain ash fire in a traditional method and are considered by many chefs to be the best in Australia.

“We used to have a Dutch bloke that lived over the road who was a third generation eel smoker. He was probably the first person to commercially smoke trout in Australia way back in the late 1970s. He taught us how to build and use a wood smoker for the trout and salmon. It still works very well and we can do 200kg or 600 fish in around 5 hours. We use Mountain Ash as this wood burns very quickly and doesn’t leave any coals so it is not used for heating; however it is great for smoking fish. We need to have the woodcutters specifically supply the Mountain Ash; however, we only use a couple of ‘metres’ per year.”

Another of the farms specialties is their premium hand- milked caviar, which was used on Masterchef in May this year. By gently hand milking the fish only when they are fully ripe and the egg completely formed means the caviar will pop on the roof of your mouth with an explosion of flavour. The eggs are clean and nicely separated, then lightly salted using time honoured methods to give a distinctive taste.

We welcome everybody to come drop a line at our farm – Young or old, experienced or beginner, there is something for you! Our natural bush setting and quality trout & salmon provide a memorable day out. We have BBQ facilities at no extra cost, so you can cook your catch for lunch.

There is a variety of different ponds including Large trout(500g -4kg), medium trout(300g-500g), salmon pond and a challenge lake, for those of you who want a bit more of a challenge. Our friendly staff are more than happy to help you catch a fish, and will clean your fish and pack it on ice for you to take home, free of charge.

Buxton Trout and Salmon Farm is known for its nature based experience, guaranteed catch, friendliness and consistent high quality trout products and gourmet produce sold through the fish out.

On the 7th February 2009, Buxton Trout Farm suffered from the Victorian bushfires that claimed over 170 lives, burnt out thousands of homes and devastated close by villages of Marysville and Narbethong. In excess of 400,000 hectares of bushland was burnt. Marysville had 3000 accommodation beds & rental properties for visitors, many attractions and activities all now gone.

The trout farm itself and the house was saved by the hard work of Mitch MacRae, family and friends, but 40 tonne of fish, fencing, part of the hatchery and some sheds perished, this equates to over $500,000 of trout and salmon – all uninsured stock. Brood stock for the coming years was also lost.

Since the fire, Buxton Trout Farm with the help of generous locals, customers, friends, and fisheries groups has got back up and running. We are ready to welcome you and your friends!