Yesterday, only this post and my weekend trip report were sent to the WFF list.
Rob
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> From: "PAUL \"PRE\" ELSBERRY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 22:16:01 -0700
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Final fishing report for a few months-aka Steelhead fever!
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> Rob,
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> 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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