thats not always the case, a hatchery raised domestic can spawn in oct or nov and again spawn in early spring! ...... the reason why all this is so very very important and why they are starting to study with DNA markers has to do with the facts that the natural steelhead population is dwindling! it is very possiable that the great lakes could one day return the favor and be used as stockings for the west coast!
or that farm raised rainbows are becomeing a top food source , the rainbow has been transplanted to 47 countrys .... hing
Wow this is still going? Steelie sperm really? Uhhhhhh no matter what side of a debate you're on, or what your personal beliefs are you can google any opinion and find 6000000000000 links to back up your point, however so can the other guy.
hear is a question bcons: was that a steel head or a domestic rainbow that i got thru the ice last year
Have at it.....
Dinner break again at home...........woohoo. I spoke to my buddy COD (aka Gillripper1)about this today and he said when he did the "Catch the Drift" boat trip in Nov. '09 that Capt Kevin said you cannot ID them by sight alone then he showed them how to ID them (Domestic Rainbows or Steelhead colored like Rainbows) . The better way, he said, is the way they fight on a hook..................so a slender one like the picture I posted on the other thread may, in fact, be a Steelhead (ie the one that was in the middle of the Chrome Steelie and Brown). James would know from the fight the fish gave. If the thing rockets out of the water doing cartwheels and flips galore then the likelihood is that it is a Steelhead. The difference is in the fight and not the color. i think fisher7450 noted this already. He also noted that the Domestics may have more of a football shape as well. The Domestics fight but not like a Steelie. COD said the difference was very evident that day on the Oz between Domestics and Steelies that looked like Domestics. Possibly more opinion than proof but the source is a very good one.