Northwest Fishing Reports

Is it just me or does this seem funny to anyone else?

farm raised..... No thank you

That's a Rufus Woods triploid. I see them sometimes in the Spokane area grocery stores marketed as steelhead also.

20 bucks! what mark up!

rusty wrote:That's a Rufus Woods triploid. I see them sometimes in the Spokane area grocery stores marketed as steelhead also.

Yep!
If ya wanna catch your own STEELHEAD>>>> Steelhead fishing to open on Wenatchee, Icicle, upper Columbia rivers; whitefish on Wenatchee
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Never buy commercial steelhead in a restaurant or grocery store! Maybe I'm selfish but I believe 100% of open ocean raised steel should be allocated to subsistence (tribal mainly), sporties and spawning! No commercial industry at all and I'll never support it with my $ and encourage others to do the same.
Fish farming...well, Steelheadin360 sums it up best above.

Farm raised steelhead never see the salt. Which makes them trout.

schu7498 wrote:Farm raised steelhead never see the salt. Which makes them trout.

Yep, pen fish from rufus. I don't think I'd call them steel but I have seen a good 30#er caught by the pens.

Last I heard, the state claims them to be trout also.... one of those triploid from Rufus is the state record holder for trout. No mention of the steelhead chromosomes in the "record" book, last I recall. Half rainbow...half steel..... it's what's in the stores today as steelhead....has been for years...
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?ad ... loid_trout" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

MarkFromSea wrote:Last I heard, the state claims them to be trout also.... one of those triploid from Rufus is the state record holder for trout. No mention of the steelhead chromosomes in the "record" book, last I recall. Half rainbow...half steel..... it's what's in the stores today as steelhead....has been for years...
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?ad ... loid_trout" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I guess there could be a half and half. Bows and Steel are genetically identical....... Must be old school Alaskan, nobody told them yet....