Rockbass6;3742042; said:
I guess the same can be said for Striped Bass. Stock a land-locked one in SW and it would probably go belly-up and vise versa. I think it all depends on where the fish grew up.
which stream trout is your favorite to catch/eat?
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I guess the same can be said for Striped Bass. Stock a land-locked one in SW and it would probably go belly-up and vise versa. I think it all depends on where the fish grew up.
We have both steelhead and rainbow trout both here. They look completely different looking and are always referred to as two different things...species. If someone caught a huge steelhead it wouldn't be the state record rainbow. Golden rainbow trout also carries the same scientific name as a rainbow trout or steelhead. Never hear them called a steelhead trout. Must be like what we did to the dogs all differnet phenotypes same species.. my mistake. Kind of confusing though if you think about it, they don't have the same characteristics.Vicious_Fish;3742122; said:
Steehead are stocked in streams and they do live, they may not reach there full growth potential but they will live and grow as big as they can. Genetically altered rainbows (triploids) look like steelhead http://www.cf.adfg.state.ak.us/geninfo/research/genetics/projects/triploid/trip-images/image020.jpgRockbass6;3742042; said:
Yes I know the difference in appearance, I have caught hundreds of both. but a steelhead really can't be stocked in a mountain stream of pennsylvania,they will die. Same reason you can't stock a king or choho salmon in those streams..dead. If they could be it would bring a lot of money to the poor towns. They stock rainbow, brook, and brown in the montains, if they lived they would stock them. Steelhead are only stocked in the tribs that flow into the great lakes. You don't see any king salmon or steelhead in the ohio river, but you can catch a rainbow or brown trout. If you come up here and call a steelhead a rainbow on a trib of lake erie people will laugh at you. Call a rainbow a steelhead in the Allegheny River same thing. They look different and live quite different lives.MultispeciesTamer;3743873; said:
Back to the derailded thread..
So sorry fishfreak,
I like BROOK TROUT because all this other crap isn't from here!! The others are fun to catch and eat but nothing beats going down to the allegheny national forest and catching some wild brook trout, they are beautiful.
The reason they dont stock steelhead is that they will out compete the other species. Steelhead being a trout are different then salmon. They do not have to go into the ocean or great lakes when they smolt. If there is food in the stream or river they may stay there even in they can get to a larger body of water. Now when a salmon smolts it has to go find other living habitat to fuel there fast growth as the stream food can only feed them for so long. But salmon to can become landlock but there is a bigger body of water they go to. Such as a resevoir or other large lakes connected to the river or streams where they spawn.Rockbass6;3744565; said:
