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[kalex60]

Is a rainbow trout the hose to the great lake a steelhead or dose it just come back a big rainbow trout. What's your opinion

[Brian the fisherman]

they are steelhead. that is my opinion.

the resident bows are a different strain of fish.

[Noahs Arc]

Well a steelhead is anadromous, meaning it moves from a body of water to a river to spawn.
So if it's anadromous technically its a steelhead... But we all know the real steel is on the west coast!

[DanJohn]

Should call them Stainless Steelheads since they dont have to get out into the ocean and get their hands (fins?) dirty.

But yeah, I dont see why they wouldnt be steelies. They move into very wide and open water to live, and then migrate back into streams to spawn. Sure its not the ocean, but Id say they are still doing the same thing as the Realsteelheads.

[DionJL]

Fake ocean, fake steelhead.

[Noahs Arc]

Fake ocean, fake steelhead.

  
Agreed

[clarki]

Further confounding the issue is that Great Lakes steelhead (from both sides of the border) originally were transplanted from the west coast, primarily the McCloud River in California.

   

[kalex60]

I though that to be a steelhead it had to go to the ocean because dont all rainbows go to streams to spawn

[kalex60]

Should call them Stainless Steelheads since they dont have to get out into the ocean and get their hands (fins?) dirty.

But yeah, I dont see why they wouldnt be steelies. They move into very wide and open water to live, and then migrate back into streams to spawn. Sure its not the ocean, but Id say they are still doing the same thing as the Realsteelheads.

what kind of predetors are there in the great lakes

[BCfisherman97]

Not true steelhead, the look and probably even fight different. They look round sometimes, like there were from a hatchery in a tank, with flat noses etc

[kingpin]

migratory rainbows

[Brian the fisherman]

I think this is a good read, it answered quite a few questions i had about the fishery as well.
http://www.ontariooutofdoors.com/fishing/trout/?ID=36&a=read

[steely02]

I'm from Ontario and I would now just call those big rainbows lol. The true steelhead out here fight 10 times stronger then those back home. Could not believe the difference!

[fyrslyer]

They are lake run rainbow trout, not steelhead.

[adriaticum]

They are not real steelhead.
Definition of steelhead is anadromous rainbow trout, which involves migration to salt water.
Not from fresh water to fresh water (Potamodromous).