Steelhead is a "Migratory Rainbow" making trips from the great lakes to the rivers each year. The Regulations book list Inland Rainbow and Great Lakes (Steelhead) Rainbow as two different fish, but I think they are the same, and given a chance, all trout would migrate if they could.wolfe wrote:So rainbows and steelhead trout are the same? I always thought steelhead were a kind of salmon.
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Not being a "Biologist" here, but TS is right, IMO they are the same fish, and when migration begins, A "Steel's" life will run bout 9yrs.So at most the might spawn twice or if its possible 3 times, unlike Salmon which are hatched, fryed (A term for small yearling salmon) and into the lake, river, ocean for 3 to 6yrs back to the same spot hatched, and spawn then never make it back to the "Big water"(Trying to let you explain Wolfe, why they dont go back 
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I've got pictures of me with trout (99.9999% rainbows) going back 6 or 7 years (so they're coming out the wazoo basically), I've just got to get my parents to digitize them (it's like trying to move a mountain...it takes a LOT of effort 
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Rainbows and Steelhead are the same fish, Steelhead is simply the name given when the 'bow are on the run.
) and send them to me, and I'll have them up in a jff!Rainbows and Steelhead are the same fish, Steelhead is simply the name given when the 'bow are on the run.
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Keep the info coming; you're contributing to my Trout 101, basic education!
Loving the pic's, too. Those brookies (specs!) are gorgeous. Darker than the browns, then. The spots are amazing! All those times WIG mentioned specs and I didn't realize they were brookies.
I know rainbow hens are less dramatic in color than the males, but what about these brookies? Are the males and females very much alike?
Also, I noticed a brown trout in the Bass Pro Shops tank that didn't look so great. His colors were brilliant and he had that hooked jaw (they get that during spawning only?) and he was just kind of parked on the bottom. All the times I've ever been to BPS, I've never noticed one of the trout sitting idle on the bottom. Anyway, was it possible it reached spawning age / time and will soon perish? Maybe just sick....but again, colors were fantastic.
Hope you don't mind all the questions. It's just that for years, trout were like a whole other animal, let alone a species of fish; I know very little about them.
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Loving the pic's, too. Those brookies (specs!) are gorgeous. Darker than the browns, then. The spots are amazing! All those times WIG mentioned specs and I didn't realize they were brookies.
I know rainbow hens are less dramatic in color than the males, but what about these brookies? Are the males and females very much alike?
Also, I noticed a brown trout in the Bass Pro Shops tank that didn't look so great. His colors were brilliant and he had that hooked jaw (they get that during spawning only?) and he was just kind of parked on the bottom. All the times I've ever been to BPS, I've never noticed one of the trout sitting idle on the bottom. Anyway, was it possible it reached spawning age / time and will soon perish? Maybe just sick....but again, colors were fantastic.
Hope you don't mind all the questions. It's just that for years, trout were like a whole other animal, let alone a species of fish; I know very little about them.
W.
Thanks, Dad, for taking me fishing when I was a kid.
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Wolfe,
I'm sure you realize this but you are right smack in the middle of trout country. I know your area pretty good and there are more trout fishing opportunities than bass or anything else down your way. Dozens of creeks and finger lakes. You are really close to a hotspot for a real treat we here in Ontario can only dream of......(or get an NY license) that is Landlocked Salmon on Skaneateles Lake. Every year after mid April when every up here is cold, flooded and muddy we would hit CNY streams. My favourites were Genegantslet Creek and the Cohocton. As I told you I've caught many trout (browns and brookies or specs as called here) in Ninemile at Marcellus.
I'm sure you realize this but you are right smack in the middle of trout country. I know your area pretty good and there are more trout fishing opportunities than bass or anything else down your way. Dozens of creeks and finger lakes. You are really close to a hotspot for a real treat we here in Ontario can only dream of......(or get an NY license) that is Landlocked Salmon on Skaneateles Lake. Every year after mid April when every up here is cold, flooded and muddy we would hit CNY streams. My favourites were Genegantslet Creek and the Cohocton. As I told you I've caught many trout (browns and brookies or specs as called here) in Ninemile at Marcellus.