I live in the PNW in BC where u can’t keep steelhead but can keep rainbows. I am good at my fish ID but this has been stumping me. Would you say this is a rainbow or a steelhead. Never caught rainbows this big if it is
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swede_ass on
There isn’t a great way tell for sure on the water. Does BC have a legal definition for “steelhead?”
Nearby_Detail8511 on
Does the river you’re fishing flow into a lake with a dam that is impassable by fish? If you’re above the dam, it’s a rainbow. If the river flows straight into the ocean and the fish are able to make it there, it’s a steelhead
RickityCricket69 on
Same species (Oncorhynchus mykiss). steelhead is what they are called if they make the ocean run.
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There isn’t a great way tell for sure on the water. Does BC have a legal definition for “steelhead?”
Does the river you’re fishing flow into a lake with a dam that is impassable by fish? If you’re above the dam, it’s a rainbow. If the river flows straight into the ocean and the fish are able to make it there, it’s a steelhead
Same species (Oncorhynchus mykiss). steelhead is what they are called if they make the ocean run.
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