Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The anadromous form of the rainbow trout, having silvery sides usually with a light red band.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida: so called from the steel-blue of the head, or perhaps for the same reason that it is called hardhead, hickory-head, and toughhead. See cut under
Erismatura . - noun The rainbow-trout, Salmo irideus. See cut under
rainbow-trout . - Tipped with steel.
- noun A large trout, Salmo rivularis, of the Pacific coast of the United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A North Pacific salmon (
Salmo Gairdneri ) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called alsohardhead , andpreestl . - noun (Zoöl.) The ruddy duck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
anadromous form of therainbow trout , Oncorhynchus mykiss - noun The
ruddy duck .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from joey wrote 2 years 12 weeks ago calling great lakes migrating rainbows 'steelhead' is like george bush calling himself a texan. he's from CONNECTICUT!!
Great Lakers Not Steelhead? Tim Romano 2007
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My freshwater record is a 39 18lb steelhead from the Deschutes just this last summer.
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The way to ensure success with steelhead is to be able to cover a lot of water in a day's fishing.
What type of tippet should I use for steel head when I fly fish 2009
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Now fly fishing for steelhead is truly practical year round on larger rivers.
What type of tippet should I use for steel head when I fly fish 2009
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My brother caught a 15in steelhead with it and when we went to pull it out of the water, the line broke.
how often should you replace the line on your fishing poles 2009
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My freshwater record is a 39 18lb steelhead from the Deschutes just this last summer.
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The other "friction issue" with hand stipping when fighting a big fish like a steelhead is trying to maintain control, or slow the fish down.
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One of the nice things about steelhead is that there are so many ways to catch them.
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The other "friction issue" with hand stipping when fighting a big fish like a steelhead is trying to maintain control, or slow the fish down.
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My brother caught a 15in steelhead with it and when we went to pull it out of the water, the line broke.
how often should you replace the line on your fishing poles 2009
alexz commented on the word steelhead
You will see differing definitions above (trout species versus salmon species) because scientists didn't really understand this fish over the last 200 years. It's like a trout that lives like a salmon.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/salmon-or-trout-what-the-heck-is-a-steelhead-anyway-1.4461827
Either way, this is an endangered fish in some rivers.
December 23, 2017