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Idaho => Ice Fishing Idaho => Topic started by: targeting on Feb 08, 2017, 04:03 PM
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I noticed that they stock a lot of steelhead in the res. Do these fish grow bigger than the rainbows? Has anyone targeted them? Do these landlocked steelhead just get caught as rainbows?
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All of them that I have caught there are caught just the same as any rainbow, they do seem to get a little bigger. I haven't targeted them but have caught quite a few in the ice while targeting trout.
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A good read with a bit of insight into this question: Woods-N-Waters article. (http://www.woods-n-waternews.com/Articles-i-2008-03-01-174989.112113_Is_a_lake_run_rainbow_really_a_steelhead.html)
I looked at the 2016 stocking reports of Idaho Fish & Game and noticed steelhead, rainbows and cut-bows all in the mix. There was also half a million walleye planted. :thumbsup: :clap:
It would be nice to have a few kamloop triploid hybrid, very fast growing, sterile and great fighter.
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A steelhead that doesn't go to the ocean is a rainbow trout. Genetically the same fish. They may grow a little faster because the ones that are stocked there are hybrids...