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Steelhead

Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:31 pm
by Nobody
Caught this beauty this morning :cool:

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This is a dolly varden I caught a couple weeks ago.

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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 1:21 pm
by JCinTN
Man, nice fish! I have gotta get back to the river this week...will be the first time I have gotten to go in a year and the weather is supposed to be around 60 all week!

Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:49 pm
by Nobody
What do y'all fish for down yonder?

Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 6:20 pm
by DBrown
I like to go fishin' for catfish........the fight is half the fun. :redneck:

Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:24 pm
by JCinTN
Mainly largemouth bass, catfish, and here in TN I go for rainbow and brown trout in the tailwaters below several of the TVA Dams. A few summers ago I had the chance to go to Alaska for salmon, now that was a memory of a lifetime. Looks like that is something you get to do on a regular basis there, Matt. Lucky you! And to take the BII off road to get there, now that's icing on the cake.

Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:33 am
by FatMan
nice catch... did you get that from the skagit? :cool:

Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 6:56 am
by plowboy
That's AWSOME!!! I just talked to my brother last Sat. about going trout fishing again this summer. We have always gone to SW Misouri near Table Rock Lake for Rainbow trout.

Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 7:51 am
by Nobody
Yep, caught it in the Skagit River.

For those that don't know, a Steelhead is a sea-run rainbow trout. Unlike salmon, which go up river, spawn and die; Steelhead spawn and go back out to sea many times.

Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:54 am
by plowboy
My great uncle lived up near Ankerage AK. He invited me up many times to go Salmon fishin but I never made it up there before he died. Once again, I am jealous of you Matt. I did not know that about Steelhead. Never too old to learn. Are dolly varden good to eat?

Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:10 am
by Nobody
Dolly's are kind of oily. They also count toward your 2 fish daily limit, so most folks don't keep them. We'd rather have steelhead. I'd have to check the regs again, but I think the natives have to be released anyway, which the one pictured above is native, and I let it go.

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:27 am
by plowboy
Looks like they would be fun to catch anyway. I bet they're strong fighters.

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:59 pm
by 85ranger4x4
cute fishes matt.....cute fishes indeed :tongue2: