The Rogue and the Umpqua flooded and the greatsteelhead began to ascend their smaller tributaries.
Then there came a day when Dan caught his first steelhead in the North Fork.
There is no more beautiful thing in the wilderness world than a steelhead trout in action.
When his majesty the steelheadtakes the fly and decides to run, it can be learned after a time that the one thing that may be done is to let out all the line and with prayer and humbleness try to keep up with him.
The species with which trials have thus far been made are the quinnat or chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha) and the steelhead trout (Salmo gairdneri).
Planting of quinnat salmon and steelhead trout in Maine streams.
As a game fish the steelhead enjoys a high reputation in the Pacific States.
The brook trout, pike, and mascalonge seldom leap when hooked, though the steelheadtrout and grayling both leap nearly as often as the black bass in their efforts to dislodge the hook.
By means of this "trademark" it may be readily distinguished from the rainbow or steelhead trouts, both of which are also black-spotted.
At one time, indeed, the rainbow and steelhead were pronounced by competent authority to be the same fish, the steelhead being supposed to be the sea-run form of the species.
On the Pacific Coast, where it is native, and runs to salt water, it grows to twenty pounds or more in weight, when it is known as steelhead salmon, and many are canned under this name.
It is a handsome fish, with considerably more gameness than the red-throat, but is not so vigorous on the rod as the steelhead of the same size.
But when they were full Steelhead spake: "Now whether wouldst thou be silent thereof, knowing that I know it without words spoken?
Then they arose and went to their horses, and Steelhead said to Osberne: "How is it with the might of thy body, lad?
So Steelhead came out of the water presently, and clad himself, while Osberne yet played a while.
Then Steelhead called the lad to him all naked as he was, and said: "Stand thou before me, youngling, and I will give thee a gift which shall go well with Boardcleaver.
Even so did they, and Stephen led the way, but Osberne came next and Steelhead with him; they spake not together, but Osberne felt the stronger for having him beside him, and his heart was full of joy.
But for that time Steelhead spake no more of his folk and the old days, but about the fowl and fish and other wild things that haunted that clough, and of shooting in the bow and so forth.
The Kamloops trout, described by the writer from the upper Columbia, seems to be a typical steelhead as found well up the rivers away from the sea.
The spots on the dorsal fin are fewer in the steelhead (4 to 6 rows) than in the other American trout.
The steelhead (Salmo rivularis) is a large trout, reaching twelve to twenty pounds in weight, found abundantly in river estuaries and sometimes in lakes from Lynn Canal to Santa Barbara.
The steelhead does not die after spawning, as all the Pacific salmon do.
The salmon-trout of Europe have many analogies with the steelhead of the Pacific.
The scales in the steelhead are always rather small, about 150 in a linear series, and there is no red under the throat.
My boy, a steelhead is--but you don't want to hear that.
I was back there fishing for steelhead in a river they call the Rogue.
When not landlocked they go to the sea the same as the rainbow and return as the steelhead of the Columbia and other northern streams.
The steelhead of the Columbia river always retains the cutthroat sing-manual, to greater or less extent, while the steelhead of the lower coast has no red on the jaw.
The same changes are found with the rainbow and the steelhead of farther south.
The claim that the smaller head of the steelhead is a distinguishing mark, fails in effect, for it is an undisputable fact that the older and larger the trout the smaller becomes the relative size of the head.
Their rushes are not equal to those of the steelhead or the salmon or the yellow-tail, nor do they fight with the same vigor or with the same persistency.
The other claim that the larger scales of the rainbow is a distinguishing feature from the steelhead is not founded on facts.
Were it possible for the Kern river trout to enter the ocean no doubt we would find steelhead running as high as 185 to the section.
Steelhead and German brown trout will also be found in the river.
Quantities of steelhead and silver salmon go up at least to Branscomb and King salmon go at least to Ten Mile Cr.
Steelhead salmon are able to come up the creek this far.
It is known that silver salmon and steelhead are caught there and that there is a fall run of King salmon (Dept.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steelhead" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
