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[Knuguy]

When I opened it up, their were no eggs/ didnt see any milk.
Since this fish initially had me confused (Weather it could be an ATLANTIC or not) getting the "Sex right" was the last of my worries.

The tail is not forked enough to be an Atlantic salmon.

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Just seeing if this works sorry if it doesn't

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Wahoo! Finally figured out how to upload pics with my iPhone!!! You guys wanna help me with this one? I think it was a small hen coho had a bit of black in the gums very few spots.

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Oh yah and about 7 hooks hanging off of it everywhere lol

[salmotrutta]

float i'm pretty sure hes fish is a steelhead

i found this atlantic dead few weeks ago darn shame

100% brown

[salmotrutta]

As for weight, as long as we are not in a tournament, let people dream!

*SMILES*

LOL

For some reason, my favourite sized steelhead to catch are around 3lbs. 5lbs I catch too frequently, anything bigger somehow doesn't excite me, so really 2 to 3.5 lbs are my fave

Even some famous fishing show hosts (won't name names so as to avoid typical comments) seem to always double the weight of their steelhead

[Majstor]

salmo u are 100% wrong, i pm'd the pic to john Kendell he confirmed it was an Atlantic. u know u're not always right i gave him 3 different shots of the fish. look at the eye its way past the jaw

[salmotrutta]

"salmo u are 100% wrong, i pm'd the pic to john Kendall he confirmed it was an Atlantic. u know u're not always right i gave him 3 different shots of the fish."

That's great float^drifter, no need to be a smartass though! Care to share the other pics, so we can learn more about the differences between an atlantic and a brown? I would love to see a pic of the adipose fin, if you have one.

[Majstor]

i wasnt tryin to be anything. u jumped on and u said 100% brown. i just said u're wrong if that makes me a smart ass so be it.

here's the pic of the tail other shots are on my hard drive on diff pc i don't really feel like uploading them all. I wasnt sure either what it was i knew it was between a brown and Atlantic, i asked john and he said it was an Atlantic.

i know one way u can tell if the eye is past the jaw or the forked tail. there's also a few more things forgot what he said.

[salmotrutta]

i wasnt tryin to be anything. u jumped on and u said 100% brown. i just said u're wrong if that makes me a smart ass so be it.

here's the pic of the tail other shots are on my hard drive on diff pc i don't really feel like uploading them all. I wasnt sure either what it was i knew it was between a brown and Atlantic, i asked john and he said it was an Atlantic.

i know one way u can tell if the eye is past the jaw or the forked tail. there's also a few more things forgot what he said.

I see a lot of big orange spots, which is why I said 100% brown. I've never seen an Atlantic in person. I did not know they can also have so many orange spots. Of course I might be wrong. This John fellow may be fallible, also.

Does anyone know definitively if Atlantics also have such orange spots?

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Yah atlantics get redish spots for sure, they're such a strange fish, a chrome Atlantic is hard to tell apart from a buck steely while a spawning Atlantic is kinda hard to tell apart from a brown. But if you look at the head you can tell it's not a brown, how far up the eye is. This is why I think there should be a fishing test when we get our liscense.
I remember being young and a person of Asian decent had five bows dead beside him (the possession limit was 2) and he was so possitive they were salmon. On another ocassion one guy was catching smallmouth bass in the spring and was trying to tell me they were pickeral... I mean, that's a pretty easy one isnt it?!

[NOTTA STEELER]

Wahoo! Finally figured out how to upload pics with my iPhone!!! You guys wanna help me with this one? I think it was a small hen coho had a bit of black in the gums very few spots.

Looks like a coho hen for sure , you tell possitively if the tail only has spots on the top half .

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It very little spots on it in general, the tail was almost sick looking, like a pale grey...

[anoobiss]

float i'm pretty sure hes fish is a steelhead

i found this atlantic dead few weeks ago darn shame

That fish looks like it's been gutted........... Being an Atlantic I should sure as hell hope not, what a waste! Anyhow, in the last 2 weeks at Bronte there have been stupid reporters from jokevilles local news
hassling anglers (myself included) for interviews and info on the gutted salmon/trout every where. We are going to lose access because of assholes not knowing how to milk a loveing fish or thinking
it's awesome to leave literally a pile of 15 salmon (Yes I did see that, 15 stacked in a pile) on the creek bank. Sorry to go off topic but that line under the *dead* Atlantic, made me think of the 3 ass hats
in the last few weeks who have approached me at Petro park.

[salmotrutta]

Found a funny story online about an angler in Vermont who took home an atlantic, thinking it was a brown. It was a trophy fish, and the local paper ran an article about it, with a picture of him holding it. As if the article wasn't enough to expose him, it turned out that the atlantic was one of a handful of them to be chipped with a homing device for research into their spawning migration. Obviously he thought it was a brown, and I am not sure if he ended up with a fine or just a warning, but it goes to show how similar they are.

Good to know they can also be plastered with colourful spots, makes it even more confusing.

Looking at that pic now though, I can see that the head is wonky and does not resemble a brown, with the eye so far back relative to the jaw. I think I will have a much better idea of how to distinguish them now.

Cool to think that the Lake Ontario tribs used to be full of those guys!

[NADO]

That Atlantic looks like a male too...that makes it even more of a waste...some peoples children.

[Majstor]

nice looking colors on that brown blair.

[salmotrutta]

Since this TOPIC is called "THE COLOURS" ...
I really did want everyone to see the COLOURS on this beauty.

They are stunnning!

They are like snow flakes, no two are exactly alike, but quite often you get similar looking ones.

Never seen a brown like that, very unique and beautiful looking specimen.

[Losier1205]

WOW thats a clean brown for shure. The one i got the other day was so gross i dident even touch the poor thing!