October Steelhead ....




One of nineteen steelhead taken by three rods in a morning's fishing just last week .....

For more about this fabulous fishing, see Needle Tubes for Steelhead

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Jeez...thats an incredible looking fish John.

Beautiful fish. Always imagined them looking like a wild rainbow, but that one looks like polished steel. You can see where the name comes from.

That is a bit nice.

Fossil W.T.F are you doing with your avatar?

We had a Celeocanth last week Rememberance poppies this week what about next week?

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[COLOR="Blue"]"A fish seen is a fish nearly caught"[/COLOR]

FF,
I understand that, like our own sea trout, steelhead darken in colour as spawning time approaches. The fish shown above is very fresh but will no doubt take on a differnet colour the longer it spends in the spawning stream. Here's one taken in August from the shore of Lake Erie, prior to running the stream ....

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Thanks for that John ,some inspiration for the new vice which has worked very nicely thanks !

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Andy Wren
Winter grayling taking a year off !
Claret not just a great dubbing colour!

Just the thing, Andy, for tying up a wee Silk Cut Shrimp ....

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John,
That is also a beautiful fish.

Loopy,
Just thought my fossil photo was feeling a bit tired, hence the coelocanth. Last years photo of a poppy on top my fossilised fish now looks a bit naff I think. Really like the coelocanth though and he will return, until christmas at least.

This one was caught last week on the Deschutes about 170 miles up from the sea, A good friend of mine was the guide,

This one was taken in november last year and you can see it was starting to color up.

and this one has been in the river for a few months

so are the steelheads basically sea run rainbows???? they look damn beautiful..