Steelhead in Kapowsin?

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Steelhead in Kapowsin?

Post by vympel » Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:55 pm

Caught a huge trout in Kapowsin on Sunday but when I got it to shore for a picture I noticed it had eggs in it. The sides were rather red as well which with it spawning in the fall led me to think it was a steelhead. I've never seen a steelhead before and I only found one reference online about steelhead moving through Kapowsin to get up into Ohop Creek. Fish was 26" long. Posted on the lake report section about it but my pictures didn't go through. Is this a steelhead?


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RE:Steelhead in Kapowsin?

Post by curado » Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:57 pm

that is a hen coho. steelhead donot have black jaws in spawning coho do.
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RE:Steelhead in Kapowsin?

Post by returnofthefish » Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:00 pm

Did you eat that fish or put it in the smoker?
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RE:Steelhead in Kapowsin?

Post by wintersteelhead » Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:07 pm

I agree with Curado.....Definatly a Coho. No doubt about it!!!!

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RE:Steelhead in Kapowsin?

Post by curado » Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:16 pm

also coho when they start to change the can get bars on their sides and are mistaken for chums
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RE:Steelhead in Kapowsin?

Post by jens » Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:46 pm

curado wrote:that is a hen coho. steelhead donot have black jaws in spawning coho do.
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RE:Steelhead in Kapowsin?

Post by Bodofish » Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:16 pm

Yep, Coho, no ifs and or buts. On top of all the things mentioned, Salmon have different shaped fins than Trout.
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RE:Steelhead in Kapowsin?

Post by goin_postal » Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:46 pm

coho all the way no doubt,very good lake i didnt know they ran through there

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RE:Steelhead in Kapowsin?

Post by Jake Dogfish » Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:19 am

It looks like a hatchery Coho. I wonder if its lost or they planted something near there?

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RE:Steelhead in Kapowsin?

Post by Toni » Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:31 am

Jake Dogfish wrote:It looks like a hatchery Coho. I wonder if its lost or they planted something near there?
I know someone who lives on a creek between Kapowsin and Ohop Lakes. In one of the floods that happened during a salmon run she had salmon in her orchard. So if they get in her creek they have to get into the lakes somehow.
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RE:Steelhead in Kapowsin?

Post by jens » Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:30 pm

vympel wrote:Caught a huge trout in Kapowsin on Sunday but when I got it to shore for a picture I noticed it had eggs in it. The sides were rather red as well which with it spawning in the fall led me to think it was a steelhead. I've never seen a steelhead before and I only found one reference online about steelhead moving through Kapowsin to get up into Ohop Creek. Fish was 26" long. Posted on the lake report section about it but my pictures didn't go through. Is this a steelhead?


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RE:Steelhead in Kapowsin?

Post by vympel » Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:17 pm

Caught it on a hook with my last tiny bit of worm. It was the most random and unexpected thing. Put it on my buddies smoker that night.

Ok cool thought is was a steelhead but oh well.

The source that mentioned steelhead in Kapowsin Lake also mentions coho.

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RE:Steelhead in Kapowsin?

Post by Shane » Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:35 pm

I belive a lost fish the lake goes into a creek that goes to the Puyallup. All hatcherys are below the creek.

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