5/16 NJ Steelhead??

[JDTuna]

Originally Posted by yumasdad

Check the tail-notice the tail (slight fork). That is a salmon. My guess is either a land lock or an ATLANTIC but the biologists on the site can probably narrow it down.

Caught a bunch of them yesterday along with 12 + rainbows, a few bass & a few mud snakes. The largest land lock was about 26".

YUP IN NJ

The bass were on fire Friday night up in NORTH NJ. The bite is on big time.

Definitely not a landlocked or Atlantic salmon. Its definitely a nice rainbow, could be a stockie Kamloops.

FYI steelhead and rainbow trout are the same species. Steelhead are just rainbows that migrate to the ocean/Great Lakes.

[Chrisper4694]

yeah that is def not a salmon, sorry haha. both brown and rainbow trout can turn a silver color when they hold over for a time i believe. That one doesn't even look like it has any pink so it's possible if where you're fishing has no damns blocking it that this fish made an ocean run last year and survived i guess. My vote would go with the private club stocking, they put all kinds of special strains in their sections of rivers and those fish are then free to roam.

[njflyfisher]

I was kidding about it being a steelhead. But it sure fought like one and looked like one. But you guys are right its probably a club fish.

[gwl2oneida]

A landlocked is an atlantic

[AndyS]

Nice fish either way.

[Bruce Litton]

Looks just like the Kamplos I caught in RVR last fall, only smaller. Read it's a joke, but just saying maybe steelheads don't have such a definite line between the silver & the dark back. I caught a 17-inch brook trout in Spruce Run res. a few years ago almost entirely silver, not quite as silver as the sea run brookies we caught in Gaspe, Canada. I guess being in the res...but the surprising thing is that somehow or other it survived summers, must have.