Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: kalex60 on September 23, 2012, 11:13:34 PM
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Is a rainbow trout the hose to the great lake a steelhead or dose it just come back a big rainbow trout. What's your opinion
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they are steelhead. that is my opinion.
the resident bows are a different strain of fish.
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Well a steelhead is anadromous, meaning it moves from a body of water to a river to spawn.
So if it's anadromous technically its a steelhead... But we all know the real steel is on the west coast!
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Should call them Stainless Steelheads since they dont have to get out into the ocean and get their hands (fins?) dirty.
But yeah, I dont see why they wouldnt be steelies. They move into very wide and open water to live, and then migrate back into streams to spawn. Sure its not the ocean, but Id say they are still doing the same thing as the Realsteelheads.
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Fake ocean, fake steelhead.
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Fake ocean, fake steelhead.
:D ;D
Agreed
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Further confounding the issue is that Great Lakes steelhead (from both sides of the border) originally were transplanted from the west coast, primarily the McCloud River in California.
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I though that to be a steelhead it had to go to the ocean because dont all rainbows go to streams to spawn
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Should call them Stainless Steelheads since they dont have to get out into the ocean and get their hands (fins?) dirty.
But yeah, I dont see why they wouldnt be steelies. They move into very wide and open water to live, and then migrate back into streams to spawn. Sure its not the ocean, but Id say they are still doing the same thing as the Realsteelheads.
what kind of predetors are there in the great lakes
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Not true steelhead, the look and probably even fight different. They look round sometimes, like there were from a hatchery in a tank, with flat noses etc
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migratory rainbows
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I think this is a good read, it answered quite a few questions i had about the fishery as well.
http://www.ontariooutofdoors.com/fishing/trout/?ID=36&a=read (http://www.ontariooutofdoors.com/fishing/trout/?ID=36&a=read)
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I'm from Ontario and I would now just call those big rainbows lol. The true steelhead out here fight 10 times stronger then those back home. Could not believe the difference!
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They are lake run rainbow trout, not steelhead.
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They are not real steelhead.
Definition of steelhead is anadromous rainbow trout, which involves migration to salt water.
Not from fresh water to fresh water (Potamodromous).
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Call them what you will but the Great Lakes have thousands of times as many of them as BC-Steelies are going extinct here but there's little chance of that happening in the GL.
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Call them what you will but the Great Lakes have thousands of times as many of them as BC-Steelies are going extinct here but there's little chance of that happening in the GL.
because the lakes are getting so much cleaner and all... :-\
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because the lakes are getting so much cleaner and all...
The same issues that plague the Great Lakes affect us here but for many reasons results there are very different-mostly politics I suppose.
One thing I know for sure-twenty years ago I could easily catch 10 Steelhead a day in the Gold now you'd be lucky to catch that many in a season and many don't catch 10 in 5 seasons-the party is effectively over for South Coast Steelhead has been for some time now.
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The same issues that plague the Great Lakes affect us here but for many reasons results there are very different-mostly politics I suppose.
One thing I know for sure-twenty years ago I could easily catch 10 Steelhead a day in the Gold now you'd be lucky to catch that many in a season and many don't catch 10 in 5 seasons-the party is effectively over for South Coast Steelhead has been for some time now.
I think the greatest threat to the great lakes are the asian carp. If they get into the lakes they will spread like wild fire.
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Lake O is an absolutely amazing fishery. spent 4 days there in early June and the fishing was nuts. Everyone was getting into them. Chinnies in the average of 20 to 25 lbs and lots of steelhead. The locals that fish the lake call 10lb steelies shakers, imagine that. Saw probably a dozen Chinnies over 30 lbs in the fish cleaning station while I was there. I still wouldn't eat anything out of Lake O but that my choice, lots do.
You guys think you got it bad out there when the run is on you should see it here. Most of Lake O tribs are water filled ditches compared to the size of the Vedder. Combat fishing at its finest. Dead fish with their guts slit all over the place. Beeks everywhere snagging and flossing. Still lots of sportsman fishers but heavily outnumbered by the others.
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Where around Lake Ontario were you fishing out of fish fishburn? I was back in the big smoke this past summer, too. I've caught lake run steelies back there too, and they fought about the same as the hatch jobs I've caught here, do (and lots of the wildies I've caught as well).