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Title: Who say's steelhead don't eat after getting into fresh water
Post by: chongo469 on May 30, 2011, 01:17:16 PM: world's greediest summer steelhead (Ed Fast River Adventures) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvzojOJ_llg#)
Title: Re: Who say's steelhead don't eat after getting into fresh water
Post by: carpsniperg2 on May 30, 2011, 01:30:02 PM: WOW that is crazy!!!!
Title: Re: Who say's steelhead don't eat after getting into fresh water
Post by: lokidog on May 30, 2011, 01:33:06 PM: That was one sneaky fish. Probably trained by the local sand shrimp salesman. :chuckle:

I always thought steelhead eat when they return since they will be going back to sea, no sense in wasting opportunities for food. :dunno:
Title: Re: Who say's steelhead don't eat after getting into fresh water
Post by: Button Nubbs on May 30, 2011, 01:35:36 PM: One question. Are you just trying to make me go insane waiting for wednesdy? :chuckle: that is nuts! That fish must have been an absolute psyco to break off 4 hooks :Ýike: I hope there's some hangin around that are like that!
Title: Re: Who say's steelhead don't eat after getting into fresh water
Post by: bwhntr350 on May 31, 2011, 06:24:36 PM: Not to try to take away from that crazy video, but I always thought that the thought was that winter steelhead do not feed. The summer runs, such as that, have under-developed egg sacs or sperm sacs, hence, they have room to fit food in their tummys, unlike the fully developed winter fish.
Don't know, I guess, just what I had always thought???
Title: Re: Who say's steelhead don't eat after getting into fresh water
Post by: 7mmfan on May 31, 2011, 07:33:54 PM: Summer fish will enter a river system anywhere from May through November and most of them won't spawn until January-March. To allow their bodies to develop their sexual organs (as was just mentioned) and to maintain calories to live in the river for 2-6 months, spawn, and possibly return to salt, most summer fish will eat. Thats why they are also so much more aggressive than winter fish generally, because they are in it for keeps. I've caught summer fish in Sept/Oct literally STUFFED full of eggs from spawning salmon. In eastern WA rivers you can often see them in Sept/Oct smashing October Caddis on the surface like a big trout.
Title: Re: Who say's steelhead don't eat after getting into fresh water
Post by: h2ofowlr on May 31, 2011, 07:49:58 PM: Does nobody use eggs on the river? Looks like sandshrimp is the bait and meal of choice. Good video. A few years back I went through the stomach of one of the springers I caught. It had multiple transmitters in it's belly, the one that are smaller than a grain of rice. He had eaten a few baby salmon on his way up the river.
Title: Re: Who say's steelhead don't eat after getting into fresh water
Post by: Button Nubbs on May 31, 2011, 08:24:54 PM: Eggs don't work... :rolleyes: I personally believe winter and summer fish both feed but what do I know...
Title: Re: Who say's steelhead don't eat after getting into fresh water
Post by: carpsniperg2 on May 31, 2011, 10:04:09 PM: Prawns,coon shrimp,eggs,cocktails,sand shrimp etc they all will kill steelhead in the right conditions!