biggest rainbow/steelhead ?

[stream walker]

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

[wny angler]

 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 

[kingfshr16]

 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.

[Mackdaddy21]

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

[TroutFishingBear]

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.

[Jigwiggler]

18lbs 2 oz. and 35 1/2" is my best.  Lake Ontario trib.

[Show me the money]

32 " measured & let go, mouth of sandy creek

[reubenpa]

[Coldfeet]

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

[Barleydog]

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! 

[fastribs85]

22" bow on a cotton cordell crankbait in one nasty lookin stream high muddy and lots of pressure

[Kodiak Commando]

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.

[vancouvercanuck]

So far for 2005:

[bigredfishing]

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.

[TroutFishingBear]

Nice to see a good solid rainbow VC! And caught by a fellow spinfisherman...what did you get it on if I may ask?