Hey sun, I think what you have are the sea run brown trout. They look more like that than steelhead in my opinion from the spotting patterns. Very, very nice fish you got there. Dude, you keep posting pics of fish like that and I'll be coming to your area to fish some way somehow...If i'm allowed out of the US anymore...lol
I could be wrong, but don't think so. Heres some pics of the steelhead i fish for here... You'll see the diff.
pic 1 is a close up of a steelhead(rainbow trout). The spotting on the fish is much different than your sea trout. Thats why i'm thinking you have sea run brown trout.
pic 2 steelhead
pic 3 steelhead
pic 4 brown trout(lake run)
im not catching any trout atm... its just too damn cold. the weather is too bad for mountain hiking to the lakes. and the damn sea trout is NOT agreeing with me at all this year..
i did another trip last nite.. spent 6 hours in the biting cold winds with the rain just whipping me.
was just too much wind and rain, too much disturbance in the water so its impossible to spot them. you cant even see when they surface.
im becoming increasingly frustrated tbh, its not normal to be without a catch so late in june.
salmon rivers opened the 15th of june, TODAY!! but im not feeling it atm, just too cold. they had an ok start of the season, theres abit of salmon in the rivers but they are flooded with alot of water atm and hard to fish.
so... im an unhappy angler atm, im considering going out again right now, but im really not feeling after a week of freezing my ass of not catching anything. (seatrout that is hehe) i catch loads of non-pelagic fish, but thats not my game
Can you guys fish live bait, egg sacks etc on your rivers? Or is it a big fly fishing regulated type fishery?
High water trout and salmon fishing puts them right on the bank. Almost easier unless the was is super high.(sometimes)
You are lucky to be able to fish for salmon. Our government here messed up the eco system by pumping too much water out of the river, damning up rivers, and a number of other problems. The salmon population is almost extinct. I'm pretty sure the season will be closed again this year... Just puts more fishing pressure on all the other species which in turn makes their numbers go down too... Lets Pray for better fishing days ahead...
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well the biggest rivers are regulated and quite strictly enforced in season so no live bait for the big salmon. A coupple of them run as some of the most expencive fishing spots in the world.. highly exclusive, bigshots from all over the world come here. the river "Maalselv", river "Tana", and river "Alta" are major waterways that compete with eachother for the world record for largest atlantic salmon every year. over 20kgs/50 pounds is normal in many rivers here. do a youtube search on either of those 3 and you will see loads of hits. here is one of a local bringin in a 50 pounder in the river "Alta".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2arq6hyLmU
every now and again i get invited to go and fish in these rivers by locals i get to know. usually it requires a riverboat and a locally known "rower" to row the boat safely because the rivers are so wild and large.
but there are quite a few smaller unregulated rivers, little secrets here and there where noone but the govt owns and noone is enforcing regulations.
personally i prefer the smaller more secluded rivers, i dont like people looking over my shoulder when im out fishing. i much prefer to privately enjoy my toke and do as i please ofc hehe.
it is supposed to turn for the better on thursday, and then for the worse again come sunday.. sigh.. so we might get 3 days of good fishing this weekend. im not sure what we will be going for, there was talk the other day about going to a salmon river which can only be reached by boat. its a medium sized river with medium sized fish, but good chance of hooking more then one.
but that depends on several stoners lol so we will see, if not, and we get quiet seas. i might go spotting for that school of seatrout again.