I get a minimum of $40.00 each up to $100.00 depending on size, sold to taxidermists shipped whole frozen as far as Hawaii, so no I can't get myself to eat even one.
It would be like flushing up to $100.00 down the toilet.
I respectively disagree with you on them not getting that rotund in the wild. Perhaps not New England, but here in the Great Lakes I have taken in brown trout that were the epitome of a football brown. If the food supply is there and it's mainly forage fish...
Here's a Lake Ontario brown
Here's a wild brookie caught in Patagonia I've posted here before. It doesn't get much more wild than Patagonia even with a few lodges down there.
I have noticed that mature male brook trout develop a high back during spawning time that makes them look rotund.