patrick mccormick
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After further inspection on my rod apparently I have a 4 wt tfo, it was so fast with a 5 wt line I just missed the label or something… Weird
Since you’ll be bass fishing I’d look into a rio versatip type line its the best bang for your buck, and you don’t have to carry a bunch of different spools either.
Well…
-First week of may I’m going to Yakutat and steelhead fishing
-I’ll be lake trout fishing in the yukon on my way back from school
-Hitting Local stuff for the first half of june
-A month on the Alagnak to count fish for the state
-The first week of august off to fish the egg drop
-Guiding a trip on Lake creek
-Silvers back here in Juneau in september
-Wyoming in SeptemberShould be fun.
Every single time someone posts something about Great Lakes steelhead, there is always someone that chimes in with the argument you just presented. So, I guess I will step up to the plate for my fellow Great Lakes steelheaders. To start with let’s ask ourselves a hypothetical question, are we not all homo sapiens? Yet there are characteristics that cause us to have different traits. Yet we are still the same thing. If I move to let’s say Germany, I’m still an American. All that has been done is that I have been transplanted to a different location. This is identical to what has happen with the steelhead. Steelhead were first identified in the late 1700s. So obvious there were none in the Great Lakes at the time, so they characterized the fish by having a life cycle that includes an anadromous stage. Move up in time some decades and we see steelhead from the McCloud River are being sent to various states in the Great Lakes region. So we have steelhead taking by train and placed in the Great Lakes. So along the way was there a fisheries biologist that told each fish they are just now a lake run rainbow. Nope, but would have been funny. So what do the fish do once they get to the Great Lakes, they display the same behavior they did out west by spawning in the creeks and rivers and running down to the lakes. So we have identical behavior just no salt. Sounds like the same thing to me so far, just sodium free.
But what I’m saying is that you can and do have behavior identical to great lakes “steelhead” throughout the rainbow trouts native range and these fish are not called steelhead, the defining charicterist of steelhead is that they enter saltwater.
So all steelhead are rainbows but not all migratory rainbows are steelhead so its not just a common name thing.
boy this thread makes me wish my parents knew how to fly fish! Way to go guys, its great having someone to show you things…
They need one of those here, they could start by asking “what are the 5 species of salmon found in Alaska” I bet half the new guides would include steelhead…
Got my 5 wt today, 5 minutes of gym casting and all I can say is wow… Its basically a sage xp but at least half the price. Unreal.. Now I just need my waders.
So so much better than USGS maps, at least here in AK as they haven’t been updated in like 50 years…
Those are good looking maps, thanks for the heads up.
