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18 Apr 16 - 07:16 PM (#3785922) Subject: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: olddude It's that time of the year, got two big ones today. Lost a huge brown Trout, he shook my lure but the steelies I landed Oh yes.. Heaven on earth again.. fish fear me |
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18 Apr 16 - 07:29 PM (#3785926) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Steve Shaw Aren't they what we call rainbow trout here in civilisation? |
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18 Apr 16 - 08:13 PM (#3785930) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: olddude Yes they are a rainbow trout only a variation that is a bit closer to a salmon. They tend to be bigger and more aggressive than a true rainbow |
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18 Apr 16 - 08:17 PM (#3785931) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: olddude Same fish but different life style, big water makes the behavior and size and color different makes them more aggressive also.. My opinion as I caught zillions of both |
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18 Apr 16 - 08:27 PM (#3785932) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: olddude Lady at my wife's work asked if I could get her some. I bet I gave her thirty pounds of trout. Lol I normally let them go but if someone eats them no problem. I really hate fish eating wise.. Just haddock for me on my fish Fry. Trout and salmon.. Nope, really don't like fish. Yellow perch, walleye yea but mostly just release fish. My Mrs said the lady has a big family and they love them so they should be good now :-) |
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18 Apr 16 - 08:33 PM (#3785933) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: olddude Typically they run 6-8 lbs here, I got some monsters at times but that is what we usually get. Great fighting fish |
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18 Apr 16 - 10:03 PM (#3785941) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Stilly River Sage I think we discussed a couple of years ago that steelhead are actually rainbow trout that have had time to grow large and make the anadromous cycle out to sea and back. I remember looking it up and being surprised - I had always thought they were two different fish. But they aren't (at least, not on the Pacific Northwest coast). |
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19 Apr 16 - 12:41 AM (#3785949) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: olddude They are the same fish just different behavior because of the Big water, their behavior is much more like salmon.. They get bigger and the color is less than a normal rainbow.. But same dna, same fish, different behavior |
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19 Apr 16 - 12:56 AM (#3785951) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: olddude Some people love eating them. I had them, baked, fried, broiled, smoked, even raw, can't stand them in any form.. Beautiful fighting fish, pretty to look at, talk to, and let go unless someone really wants to make a dinner out of it. |
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19 Apr 16 - 01:56 AM (#3785954) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Dave Hanson Steelhead = migratory rainbow trout. Dave H |
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19 Apr 16 - 01:58 AM (#3785955) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Dave Hanson I meant to add, like all migratory fish they tend to run a lot bigger than purely the freshwater variety. Dave H |
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19 Apr 16 - 02:09 AM (#3785956) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Steve Shaw I went fishing just once in my life, on the River Severn in 1973. I was using some gear that my mate lent me. Caught bugger all so gave up and made a day of it and got wasted in a nearby pub at lunchtime as somebody else was driving. I love fish in any shape or form. Mrs Steve is a bit fussy about bones and hasn't got the knack of lifting the sheet of bones out of her piece of fish on the plate. We're lucky in that we're friendly with the local fishmonger and we eat only fresh fish locally caught. Because of the bones thing it tends to be chunky fillets though we eat a lot of mackerel. The turbot we had the other week was the absolute, er, acme... We don't buy farmed fish though. No factory "sea bass," salmon or trout for us, and I find the concept of "organic fish" a joke. I sometimes buy wild Alaskan salmon. I know it's not the same thing but it makes a damned fine arrabbiata with some nice thick rigatoni. The fish man won't buy wild sea bass from the market any more, and a good thing too. The way it's vacuumed up by commercial fishing boats is a scandal. I hate to see it on restaurant menus. |
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19 Apr 16 - 03:41 AM (#3785965) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Dave the Gnome I love most fish dishes. Herring of any sort is a particular favourite. Fresh sardines is another. I think someone mentioned stuffed trout on the other thread. I had a freshly caught brown trout at a pub in upper Wensleydale once and they had stuffed it with Whitby prawns. Why??? Having said that, it was not bad. One really odd thing is that I can eat any fish and any other smoked fish apart from smoked mackerel. That gives me an awful allergic reaction that ends up with me doubled up in bed with stomach cramps for an hour or two. I am told it may not have really been smoked but chemically treated and I may have had a reaction to that. But it has happened twice and I am not risking it again! |
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19 Apr 16 - 04:17 AM (#3785975) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Will Fly I've been fishing once in my life. When I was about 16 or so, a friend of may father's got together a small group of friends (including father and me) to go out on to the waters outside Barrow-in-Furness in a small fishing boat. We were given rods and paternosters - which is a long, vertical, metal rod with several horizontal rods leading off it at different angles. Each lateral rod is baited separately, and then the whole device is lowered over the side while the boat is at anchor. It was a beautiful day, warm and sunny and calm. Down went my paternoster - and up it came with several lovely "flatties". That carried on all day, and we had a good evening gutting and freezing the catch. We fried a few as well and they were delicious. I have a local friend who fishes for sea trout from his boat off Seaford Head in Sussex. I maintain his website - and he pays me in trout from his freezer. Good deal! |
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19 Apr 16 - 05:08 AM (#3785983) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Steve Shaw In the summer of 1977 we stayed in a lovely B&B in Cross Cloghane in Kerry. The old lady who ran it, Nellie O'Neill, had a sister who ran Nora Murphy's bar in Brandon (quite likely Nora herself). One day Nellie asked us to take a huge plain brown paper parcel to the pub. It turned out to be a vast salmon, the provenance of which we were discouraged from investigating. Our reward later that evening was a hunk of the finest baked fish we've ever eaten, right to this day. We were also treated to a young girl's devastatingly good whistle-playing. I wonder whether the old boys still drink their Guinness straight from the bottles, lining up the dead men under their stools! |
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19 Apr 16 - 07:22 AM (#3785996) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Raggytash Murphys Bar, Brandon ............... OH YES !!!! Best pub in the world. Bar None. Mary Murphy was the landlady, she retired a few years back but what a lady! I still get Christmas cards from her. The young girl was probably Coleen her daughter. I believe her nephew now runs the bar. |
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19 Apr 16 - 08:47 AM (#3786012) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Rapparee Yes, the steel heads are running -- for Congress, the Presidency.... |
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19 Apr 16 - 09:12 AM (#3786016) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Steve Shaw When Nicky gets home tonight I'll see if her recollection of names is any better than mine. I'm going back nearly forty years, remember! |
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19 Apr 16 - 09:15 AM (#3786017) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Steve Shaw Dunno about "steel" heads, Rap. Substitute any or all of the following: knob, dick, air, pin, thick, block... |
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19 Apr 16 - 09:17 AM (#3786018) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Raggytash Actually Steve Cloghane is just Cloghane not Cross Cloghane!! |
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19 Apr 16 - 09:39 AM (#3786021) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Steve Shaw Well that was in the address given to us of the place we stayed at...it may have been "The Cross, Cloghane" or "Cross Road, Cloghane." I'm simply remembering Nellie's handwriting! |
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19 Apr 16 - 11:26 AM (#3786046) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: frogprince By the way, Dan; fish SWIM; they don't have little footsies. |
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19 Apr 16 - 11:36 AM (#3786053) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Steve Shaw They've got handies though. I know. I have fish fingers in my freezer. |
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19 Apr 16 - 12:54 PM (#3786075) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: olddude Lol, I wish you guys were closer, I would take ya fishing, you would have all the trout you wanted... Going down in couple hours, I get ya a picture. I live probably a mile from the lake were I fish |
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19 Apr 16 - 02:03 PM (#3786105) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: gnu Tight lines and straight shootin', Dan. |
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19 Apr 16 - 02:53 PM (#3786121) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Greg F. Dan, ya got me bumfuzzled - if these here fish are Rainbows that migrate to the sea = Steelheads - assuming you're fishing in Lake Erie, how the %$%# do they get around Niagara Falls??? Heading out to the sea, OK, but the return trip must be a real bitch! |
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19 Apr 16 - 10:04 PM (#3786192) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: gillymor If I was a steelhead and saw you coming with a fishing pole in your hand I'd be running too, Dan. Snook, tarpon and sea trout and the occasional redfish are biting down here. It's prime time. |
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20 Apr 16 - 12:09 AM (#3786202) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: olddude Oh yeah Gilly fish on my brothers.. Oh I think they are carried up the falls in buckets Lol :-) |
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20 Apr 16 - 01:55 PM (#3786322) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: keberoxu Post from 19 April: pretty to look at, talk to....hold it right there? Cue the Smother Brothers, with straight man Dick leading off, in full tenor singing voice: "I talk to the fish.....but they never listen...." Oh, I can just IMAGINE Tom Smothers deconstructing that one! I miss those fellows. |
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20 Apr 16 - 02:02 PM (#3786323) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: olddude I do however they don't answer, I tell them wow your a fat fish Lol, I told a female bass she had pretty eyes... They keep coming back if you're nice to them :-) |
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22 Apr 16 - 04:51 PM (#3786707) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: mkebenn Steelhead in Lake Erie were introduced using Pacific strains, and they run from the lake, not to it. Where are they running in the spring? Mike |
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22 Apr 16 - 05:56 PM (#3786717) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: Steve Shaw Jaysus, Dan, if they "keep coming back" it means you're bloody useless at catching 'em! |
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23 Apr 16 - 01:48 AM (#3786736) Subject: RE: BS: Oh yeah steelhead are running From: olddude Lol perfect steve..so true . Oh to answer the other questions, they come from oregon and stocked in lake Erie as finherlings. I think it takes two or three years to come Into the creeks to spawn. Steelhead don't know the difference between a big fookin lake or the ocean as the water makes no difference to them |