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Professor Snuggles:
Damn that is a fatty Steelhead.

I used to love fishing, then I stopped, then I started again, then my friend broke the tip off my fly rod.

ledhendrix:
Nice photos SonofZ3. I tie all my own flies myself. Where about do you usually fish? What species is that thing in the third picture, it's and ugly bastard.

SonofZ3:
ledhendrix- I live in Northwestern Pennsylvania, which provides me with a really good variety of fish to pursue. Everything from trophy trout in the Alleghney river to small native brook trout to walleye, pike, and smallmouth bass. The fish in the third picture is a Steelhead, which is simply a rainbow trout that starts in a stream, travels downstream to a lake or ocean, and then returns annually (after spending 2 or 3 years in the lake/ocean) each fall to spawn and spend time eating salmon eggs in the stream in which it was born. Here in Pennsylvania we're lucky enough to have steelhead runs that enter the streams flowing into lake Erie. A lot of people call them "chromers" because they tend to be very silvery when they first enter the streams, and don't have much of the red/pink stripe that stream resident rainbows will. HUGE brown trout also run up the lake erie tributaries, but they are fewer and far between, and I haven't been lucky enough to catch one yet.

Orbert:
I thought they were called Steelhead when they're out in the lake.  In a river, you call them Rainbow Trout. 

(For those who don't know, they're the same species but are awesome enough to have two names.)

ledhendrix:
Oops I meant the 4th picture sorry.

I've had a few rainbow trout over here in Scotland. They are farmed and quite often escape and head up the river beside me (The River Awe) and other rivers around Scotland. They aren't the same as your nice wild ones though. They are scabby and bloated from being farm fed. Some lucky ones do make it to stay on a while and heal up. Loch Awe, which holds the Scottish record for a Brown Trout (31lbs i think), has a few fish cages on it and a lot of fish escape into the loch, they start off from 10oz up to about 5lbs and have been caught later on 20lbs plus. They can be excellent fun and they are good eating too. I would usually release all my fish but as they're non native you are required by law to remove them from anywhere they weren't before.

Scottish "Wild" Rainbow Trout





Orbert they are Rainbow trout if they are non migratory and Steelhead if they migrate from the ocean or a huge lake to spawn in streams like SonofZ3 said. Interestingly enough they aren't true trout, they are part of the Char family.

Brown trout have the same thing over here but they are unimaginatively called sea trout. Excellent fun fishing for them though. A bit of night time sea trout fishing on a river in the middle of summer is a great thing.

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