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Title: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: Jonny 5 on December 23, 2006, 02:53:26 PM
Dec 23, 06

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Steelhead or trout?
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: Fish Assassin on December 23, 2006, 03:50:43 PM
Tell us where you caught it and we'll tell you whether it's a trout or steelhead. ;)
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: BIG T on December 23, 2006, 05:01:50 PM
Nice fish Jonny5
Steelhead=Fork length 50 cm or more under freshwater regulations
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: Xgolfman on December 23, 2006, 05:18:49 PM
steel...

I should add if the fish (which i'm assuming it is here) has access to salt water and is over 24" then it's a steelhead...
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: scruffy on December 23, 2006, 05:26:10 PM
nice fish there johnny  :) i'm getting the itch even more to get out only a couple of days to go  ;D awsome xmas present.
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: allwaysfishin on December 23, 2006, 05:55:33 PM
another nice fish... good on ya!!
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: Youngin on December 23, 2006, 06:03:16 PM
looks like a steelhead!!

nice fish!
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: kingpin on December 23, 2006, 06:40:02 PM
trout.
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: cohokid on December 23, 2006, 08:17:13 PM
looks like a trout to me. either way nice fish
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: mykiss on December 23, 2006, 08:20:08 PM
Looks like a steely to me.

I guess it would depend which river system it's been caught in e.g. if large resident rainbows are in the systems.  Also, if in smaller rivers, most resident rainbows generally don't get super huge.  That's my impression anyways.

Regardless, it's an Oncorhynchus mykiss ;-)
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: troutbreath on December 23, 2006, 08:58:50 PM
Trout.
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: Big Steel on December 23, 2006, 09:01:50 PM
In the top pic, it looks more like a trout, but the bottomw pic looks a bit more like a Steelhead.  Not sure, but really nice catch regardless!! ;)
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: bbronswyk2000 on December 23, 2006, 09:19:03 PM
Looks like a trout to me.
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: Jonny 5 on December 24, 2006, 08:03:40 AM
Frenchmans creek...  ;D  never expected there to be any sizable trout there.  Its somewhere within 200 km of the tricity area... hows that for specific?

Quote from: Fish Assassin on December 23, 2006, 03:50:43 PM
Tell us where you caught it and we'll tell you whether it's a trout or steelhead. ;)
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: younggun on December 24, 2006, 11:41:37 AM
God father fishes the morice and when the rainbows are running they catch some fish pushing 10lbs but they are not steelies.


<-- thats a steelhead!
Title: Re: Chrismas a day early for me
Post by: Pat AV on December 25, 2006, 04:24:54 PM
Hard to say what type of fish it is, I do not know of any Costal Creeks that support rainbows of that girth so if you were near the coast I would say a small steelie. If you were on the dry side I would say nice bow.

Nice fish either way.  :)

Quote Younggun:

"God father fishes the morice and when the rainbows are running they catch some fish pushing 10lbs but they are not steelies."

Younggun are you speaking of the Morice near Huston? If the bows you are speaking of run in the fall they are definetly anadromous! Not trying to nitpick just confused by your statement!