St.Clair river bow???

[mordenk]

I was out last night trolling for some eye's when I hooked this bow or at least I think it's a bow. I have a picture in my gallery and was wondering if I some one could verify what species this fish is.

The meat was an orange colour when I clean it this morning. As for the eye's I was skuned again.

Thanks
Kyle

[DZtaxidermy]

Looks like a steelhead to me. Nice fish!:)http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/549/1763PANA0141-med.JPG

[ESOX]

Sweeet! I bet you knew that critter wasn't any Ol Walleye the second it hit.LOL:cool:

[mordenk]

I knew as soon as she hit it wasn't an eye. I was using a 7ft light action rod and ultra light reel with 6 lb test. It took me 45 min. to get her in the boat.

She also wrecked my line! I had to put new birkley trilene on this morning. I went to 8 lb test this time.

[mordenk]

DZtaxidermy
How did you bring up the image on the post??? I haven't been able to figure out how to do that yet???

[northern_outdoorsman]

Nice Steelhead!!!!!!!!!;) :D

[DZtaxidermy]

Click on this link and it will take you to a thread that tells you how to do it.

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26676

[mordenk]

Thanks DZtaxidermy!

[TONGA]

Nice fish!!! ,,,,,,6lb line,light action rod,,,that had to be a blast!!!

[SALMONATOR]

You've got to take me walleye fishing with you sometime dude!! Nice fish.:)

Al

[Ju30-30]

Could someone inform me as to what a bow is?

[mordenk]

"bow" is short form for Rainbow Trout.

[duckbusters]

Hard to tell from the photo, but it looks like it may be a king ?

nice fish for light tackle all the same-good job:)

[ESOX]

I couldnt be sure either, but the mouth doesn't look black. We need some expert input here.

[BigDaddy]

Sure looks like one he!! of a blue gill.;) Nice fish.

[AL D.]

Salmon have dark mouths, steelhead white. Nice fish either way, always a blast to hook on light tackle. Congratulations!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~><> AL :eek:

[Getaway]

Nice fish, but I'm not sure it's a steelie. Notice the tail is forked. Steelies and browns have definite flat tails. It looks more on the lines of a king or coho.....maybe an atlantic???.....I just dono for sure.

I would lean toward a very large coho.

[POLARBEAR]

that is one of the most endangered fish known to mankind. it is called a snooperfish. snooper fish are known for snooping around the wrong place at the wrong time and some walleye fisherman gets em. nice fish though, good job on the light tackle.:D :p

[Termie33]

As getaway said, its not a steelie, or a brown, which have square tails. That fish have an obvious forked tail. IN the low light its hard to tell what it is, but im guessing a salmon of some sort. Regardless of the species...NICE fish!

[ausable_steelhead]

I think it's a spring king, the forked tail looks awfully like a king's, nice fish anyways.

[mordenk]

Thanks guy's for trying to clear up the confusion on that fish. I showed the picture to some local Salmon guy's and they told me that because the tail was forked that it was either a coho or a king.

All I know is that I had a blast for the 45min. it took me to land her and she tasted even better on my dinner plate tonight.

I went out this morning after work (0630-0730) and I got skunked! I had to call her quites at 0730 hr because the SW winds really started to pick up and my little boat couldn't handle her.

I never marked one fish.

Again thanks guy's, I am not really that good at identifying trout or salmon spieces due to the fact that I have never fished for them. I know now what I have been missing !!!!

[Percha Man]

Hope you had an all species license. If not that is one heck of a perty catfish.;)

[mordenk]

Here in Canada we only have one licience (fishing) that covers all speices. We don't need seperate liciences for seperate species.