where is here?

The lake run rainbows in the Great lakes are called steelhead.

The classic hard nosed definition is a steelhead is a Rainbow that spends at
least one year in the Pacific Ocean - but I think that's more about bragging
rights.

Do they look different? There are many races of steelhead here in the
Pacific North West and British Columbia, some lean and thin others stout and
thick The legal definition of steelhead in BC is any rainbow trout of 50cm
or bigger from any stream known to hold steelhead. Does that help?

The Great Lakes Steelhead tend to be pretty chunky.

Rainbows are "plastic" fish - I mean they adapt quickly to local conditions.
It didn't take long for rainbows in the Firehole to tolerate much higher
temperatures than other 'bow. Rainbows in New Zealand quickly learned to
spawn in Oct-Nov when they used to spawn in Apr-May

Bottom line. A rainbow of any sort is a dam nice fish to catch. Remember
Shakespeare's famous line about a rose. Enjoy yourself
--
"Lionel F. Stevenson" wrote in message
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We have sea run rainbows here. Nobody calls them Steelhead.

Is there a difference? Do they look different?

-- Lionel