Rob,
You replied to another mesage re: steelhead. I have not received this
message. When was it sent? I feel I may have missed an interesting read.
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: Final fishing report for a few months-aka Steelhead fever!
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>>
>> A couple of quick questions for you Steelhead experts. The fin clipped
fish
>> I talked about seemed too large to be small steelhead. Do some hatchery
>> steelhead never make the run out to see and stay in the river year
around? I
>> would assume that just as every rainbow is not a steelhead, not every
>> fingerling in the hatchery makes the trip downstream. I will have to
profess
>> my total ignorance on the topic.
>
>
>Thanks for your great report. I love to read reports like these,
>especially after another no-fish weekend.
>
>First off, I am not a fisheries expert nor do I play one on TV.
>
>But I work with a few. And there are several things that fisheries
>biologists like to argue about, and one is the rainbow/steelhead issue.
>One camp says that rainbows and steelhead cannot co-exist on the same
>river system, and the other camp says they can.
>
>The vast majority of the steelhead and rainbows that have been planted
>in the world are said to come from stock from the McCloud River in
>Northern California. These Shasta rainbows are about 100 miles from the
>Pacific without natural barrier to the ocean, presumably with a native
>steelhead run from the coast.
>
>Within populations of salmonids there is a tendency to wander, to
>different streams as adults, to being chinook that rear for a year in
>the river versus going almost straight out to sea. This also seems to
>relate to in the sockeye staying in the natal lake rather than leaving
>as most do after their first year in the lake.
>
>Now, McCloud rainbows were the stock that produced the Great Lakes
>steelhead, so that seems to show that there is some tendency to migrate,
>as in other places these fish stay put.
>
>I tend to feel that there is some connection between rainbows and
>steelhead, and I have personal experience like yours. Last winter I
>caught a nice chunky rainbow from the Snoqualmie River while
>steelheading. But there are still those who will refute my observation
>and tell me it was a steelhead smolt. Humph. I didn't see any parr
>marks, it kinda looked like a rainbow to me.
>
>Take care of that knee.
>
>Rob
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