Lake Erie steelhead

[Solitario Lupo]

12hrs of fishing found some holes that had fish and only a couple people fishing for them. Caught a bunch lost a bunch. Them fishy need more water bet a good number will swim up. Mostly anything egg was working.

 

[Solitario Lupo]

Need a football


Male getting his nice colors.

 

[Melvinp]

Need a football
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Male getting his nice colors. View attachment 1802

Sweet b. U. Ts

 

[truecrimson]

They all look great but I have to say I love that last pic. I would frame that and hang it on a wall.

 

[Don]

New guy here Is the top one a Salmon or Lake trout and the bottom typical Rainbow?

 

[A-5]

All bows

 

[Don]

So you have them on ice? Or are you home already?

 

[Solitario Lupo]

No ice. Just for fun Home this morning.

 

[Solitario Lupo]

All bows

Two kinds that’s what I hear. I could never tell which is which.

 

[A-5]

Looks like NY sticks Washington strain. Ohio stocks Michigan strain and PA just collects what’s left over at the trout run

 

[Don]

So youre saying that all of them are Bow's (steelhead)?

 

[truecrimson]

Rainbow trout and steelhead are the same thing. The difference is do they spend their whole life in small water or go to big water and come back to small water.

Rainbow trout - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Solitario Lupo]

Like truecrimson said steelhead is just a big rainbow trout that migrates to a larger body of water.

 

[Don]

There is some debate about that but yes. Aren't there specific stains of Bow that do that and other strains that don't?

Rainbow Trout and Steelhead | National Wildlife Federation

Learn facts about the rainbow trout’s habitat, diet, life history, and more.

www.nwf.org

I don't know but when I lived in Northern CA it was the thing to do. But of course I didn't live there long enough to learn more.

 

[truecrimson]

All of them would do it if they could. There are different sub species in different places with minor differences. But they are all rainbows if they live in small water and steelhead if they go to big water and return to small water to spawn.

 

[Solitario Lupo]

There is some debate about that but yes. Aren't there specific stains of Bow that do that and other strains that don't?

Rainbow Trout and Steelhead | National Wildlife Federation

Learn facts about the rainbow trout’s habitat, diet, life history, and more.

www.nwf.org

I don't know but when I lived in Northern CA it was the thing to do. But of course I didn't live there long enough to learn more.

Their are different strains of them. A5 already listed them up top.

 

[A-5]

So. Actual definition of steelhead is a rainbow that goes out to saltwater and returns to freshwater. Since ny and pa bows don’t do that whatever. The strains are taken from actual steelhead and they do what they do just not in salt. Now. Some debate that Ontario bows make it to salt who knows.

 

[Don]

I must have some Bow in me then.

 

[truecrimson]

Do you spawn in fresh water?

 

[Don]

ha