Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: canoe man on October 04, 2004, 08:58:30 PM
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soooooo a friend of a friend of a friend lol asked me the other day about steelhead possibley in this lake on the island
i asked him why and he said that his wife caught a 5lb rainbow there and he had heard rumors of steelhead in there but canot find anything concrete from any DFO site or page
so i thaught id ask some of our van isle readers, is this rumor or fact
tia cnm
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Of course as we all know a steelhead is an anadromous form of a rainbow trout so for starters does a stream lead out of St Marys Lake to the ocean?
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i was told that yes there is but right now it is more of a mud streak as the water is very low.
were checking on fish wizard right now but its not loading very fast :(
cnm
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That lake has a lot of 'leftovers' dumped in it.
In the spring some hatchery or other just dumps what they don't want in the place and of course Bass have a feast-I have this from Mark owner of Lakeside Gardens.
'Some' of the luckiest/smartest/wiliest Salmon/Trout do survive to adulthood.
I have seen fish that a guy called a 'Rainbow' that I would bet was a Coho and have heard tales of big tough Rainbows.
Never caught one though but the Cutts there are fast and tough.
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well i just found out in 2002 they stocked 9000 stealhead and 2000 rainbows, now would the hatchery stealhead be marked as in missing an adipose fin, but the rainbows not marked as there is no need to mark rainbows in a stocked lake?
then there was a couple of years of cutthroat stocking, and this year 5000 rainbows as yearlings
plus my friend also brought home a nice 6lb bass he wants to try smoking it ?
tia cnm
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6 lb is a sweet smallie, but as far as smoking it he would have been better off leaving it to fight again...smallmouth bass are ok at best when small, but are not great tasting fish when they're that big.
I fished St Mary's in June and caught a small fish that looked like a salmon to me...dunno what it was, it was only 4 inches long and went after my blue fox spinner that was almost bigger than it 8)