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stream walker
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biggest rainbow/steelhead ?
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Mar 25, 2004, 12:02 PM »
how big was the largest rainbow/steelhead you've ever landed
been steelheading 15 years and 36" -17 lb'er is the best iv'e been able to do
iv'e hooked bigger ones but never landed them
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wny angler
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Mar 25, 2004, 02:56 PM »
my best steelhead weighed just over 22 lbs, it took over a 1/2 hour and a few hundred yards downstream before i landed it,never seen the fish until i got it near the bank,the hook was barely hanging on by the skin of the fishes lip and i coulnt beach it ,the steam bank was a couple feet high,when i tried to grab the fish the hook came loose but i was able to get my arms around it and wrestle it up onto the bank
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kingfshr16
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Mar 25, 2004, 04:01 PM »
My best to date is a 35" 18 lb steelie, on the same trip my grandfather caught a 21 lber... WNYangler...way to go on your fish, i saw the picture of it in another post, great fish.
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Mackdaddy21
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Mar 25, 2004, 08:16 PM »
My best rainbow was a 35", 17 pounder from the Colorado River near Glenwood Springs, Colorado. I caught it and released it on a drifted nightcrawler. I caught it in January, when ice banks the size of VWs were floating down the river.
Tyler
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TroutFishingBear
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Mar 26, 2004, 05:32 PM »
Got lots of big ones over 10, not sure on the biggest ever for me though. These are rainbows and not steelhead for the info.
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Jigwiggler
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Mar 27, 2004, 01:23 PM »
18lbs 2 oz. and 35 1/2" is my best. Lake Ontario trib.
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Show me the money
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Mar 29, 2004, 06:14 PM »
32 " measured & let go, mouth of sandy creek
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reubenpa
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Apr 03, 2004, 11:32 AM »
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Coldfeet
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Apr 05, 2004, 11:58 AM »
38" and 19 lbs A male off lake Erie trib the next day I got a Female 36" from the same hole and Had enough eggs from her for a whole year. i have had a lot over 10lbs, and hundreds under 10lbs
ColdFeet
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Barleydog
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Apr 06, 2004, 08:17 PM »
33" C&R Rainbow trout caught in the Naknek river in southwest Alaska on a egg suckin' leech. Steelhead was a 24 lb. fish, (no measurment) C&R caught in the Hoh river in Western Washington state on a hot shot plug. What a great steelhead river!
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fastribs85
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Apr 22, 2004, 10:15 PM »
22" bow on a cotton cordell crankbait in one nasty lookin stream high muddy and lots of pressure
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Kodiak Commando
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Feb 19, 2005, 06:54 PM »
The biggest steelhead i ever caught was 13 pounds out of the buskin river on kodiak. I have actually caught more 10 plus pound rainbows than steelhead. The biggest rainbow for me is about a tie, i caught a 36 inch 18 pounder out of the Naknek and and 18 pound 32 incher out of the kenai, both fly fishing. Caught the naknek fish on a articulated flesh fly and the kenai fish on a trout bead, once again rainbows not steelhead! There is nothing like fishing for rainbows with an 8 weight rod
. In fact i am heading to the naknek again this fall and guarentee i will have some great photos of some 10 pound plus bows.
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vancouvercanuck
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Mar 11, 2005, 11:22 AM »
So far for 2005:
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bigredfishing
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Re: biggest rainbow/steelhead ?
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Mar 11, 2005, 03:35 PM »
my largest was only around 15lbs, but my father landed a 39" 20lb steelie a few years back, both on the salmon river in pulaski.
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TroutFishingBear
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Mar 11, 2005, 09:24 PM »
Nice to see a good solid rainbow VC! And caught by a fellow spinfisherman...what did you get it on if I may ask?
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