RAINBOW? STEELHEAD?

We have sea run rainbows here. Nobody calls them Steelhead.

Is there a difference? Do they look different?

-- Lionel

On 10/13/05 10:38 AM, in article , "Lionel
F. Stevenson" wrote:

We have sea run rainbows here. Nobody calls them Steelhead.

Is there a difference? Do they look different?

First loop connectors vs. nail knots, now "what is a steelhead."

Oh, if it were only an election year...

:-)

Lionel, the fisheries folks next door to you in Nova Scotia seem to call
them both sea run rainbow and steelhead:

http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsaf/sportfishi...ies/rain.shtml

My guess is that it is just "local flavor" that causes naming differences.
Sort of like brook trout/speckled trout/specks, etc.

Bill

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
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"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

" Ralph Heidecke" wrote in message
news:t9Y3f.200151$tl2.161394@pd7tw3no...
The legal definition of steelhead in BC is any rainbow trout of 50cm or
bigger from any stream known to hold steelhead.

In computer science that's called "infinite loop".

And what about if you caught the VERY LAST ONE...? Would that be a
'steelhead'?

--riverman

"Lionel F. Stevenson" schreef in bericht
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We have sea run rainbows here. Nobody calls them Steelhead.

Is there a difference? Do they look different?

-- Lionel



A Rainbow is a landlocked Steelhead...;-))

"Connaisseur" wrote in message
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"Lionel F. Stevenson" schreef in bericht
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We have sea run rainbows here. Nobody calls them Steelhead.

Is there a difference? Do they look different?

-- Lionel



A Rainbow is a landlocked Steelhead...;-))


California considers a rainbow in the ocean connected river a rainbow if
less than 24". Steelhead if over 24"

In article ,
"Connaisseur" wrote:

"Lionel F. Stevenson" schreef in bericht
...
We have sea run rainbows here. Nobody calls them Steelhead.

Is there a difference? Do they look different?

-- Lionel



A Rainbow is a landlocked Steelhead...;-))



What is resident rainbow in a anadronymous waterway then? A rainbow
that could go out to ocean but doesnt?

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Somewhere in Texas a village is missing their Idiot.

In article .net,
"Bill McKee" wrote:

"Connaisseur" wrote in message
.. .

"Lionel F. Stevenson" schreef in bericht
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We have sea run rainbows here. Nobody calls them Steelhead.

Is there a difference? Do they look different?

-- Lionel



A Rainbow is a landlocked Steelhead...;-))


California considers a rainbow in the ocean connected river a rainbow if
less than 24". Steelhead if over 24"



You are wrong. I have a california steelhead report card and its 16
inches not 24 inches. And california does NOT *consider that* a
steelhead. It just considers it for reporting issues.

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Somewhere in Texas a village is missing their Idiot.

Connaisseur wrote:
"Lionel F. Stevenson" schreef in bericht
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We have sea run rainbows here. Nobody calls them Steelhead.

Is there a difference? Do they look different?

-- Lionel




A Rainbow is a landlocked Steelhead...;-))

Precisely. Like, for example, the landlocked rainbow "steelhead" trout
in the Great Lakes. :-)

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