toronto harbourfront steelhead

[tangledline]

monday nov 22 toronto harbourfront fished 11am until 6:30pm
2 pike follows
1 pike in and out of the net 3 times...lost ....too big....too far down a reach with net
one sundown steelhead landed....it was hurt bad so i kept it.....dinner for two nights
the steelhead took a run over 120 meters through the gap in the harbour wall into the lake
i fought it back to the shore...i figured a breakoff....the fishing gods were kind
two areobatic leaps into the air.....
went out tues november 23 9am until 6pm .......skunked and frozen...waves crashed over me on an outer wall
i am getting a mustang life vest soon cause if i fall in ...i can't easily get out.

 

[FrankTheRabbit]

Must've been a great tug-o-war with the steelie!

 

[efka]

nice bow tangledline. you should try river fishing some time, i'm sure you would like it,

 

[tangledline]

efka....i have been trying to thankyou for the carp info....i went to hit the thanks feature at the bottom of the page....the bar moved away from my cursor and when i hit thanks ...it clicked -1
sorrry......your posts are still showing as a long page and all the font moves when i approach your posts from the bottom....i am using the computer at work...after work so i can not update the browser etc as it is not my computer....sorry for messing your reputation...if anything i would like to add 20 or 30....again thanks....and yes i would love to fish rivers....time getting there and uncertainty of conditions keeps my visits low.....but yeah i like sight fishing rivers...and reading the river and its currents etc.

 

[float^drifter]

efka....i have been trying to thankyou for the carp info....i went to hit the thanks feature at the bottom of the page....the bar moved away from my cursor and when i hit thanks ...it clicked -1
sorrry......your posts are still showing as a long page and all the font moves when i approach your posts from the bottom....i am using the computer at work...after work so i can not update the browser etc as it is not my computer....sorry for messing your reputation...if anything i would like to add 20 or 30....again thanks....and yes i would love to fish rivers....time getting there and uncertainty of conditions keeps my visits low.....but yeah i like sight fishing rivers...and reading the river and its currents etc.

dont worry i voted it up

 

[LICENSETOPIN]

awsome, i was once down at the harbour front one morning having a happy smoke and a jog and i witnessed something i have never seen before. a pod of maybe 30 little steelies(2-3lb) were chasing shiners and minnows around the boats in one of the marinas. the only reason that made me see what they were doing were a flock of gulls flying over top and diving in to grab minnows as they came near the surface. it was so surreal like it was making it up in my head lol. oddly enough the diving gulls didnt seem to spook the steelies at all. good stuff!

 

[getin]

Nice one :
I have seen two coloration on the bows. Some come with a stripe of orange (like this one above) and the color below and above this stripe is not much different (gray/dark). The others come with the back black and below this midle like a shiny silver. What is the difference between th two fish? age, sex, type or what?

 

[frozenfire]

sweet buck!

 

[frozenfire]

Nice one :
I have seen two coloration on the bows. Some come with a stripe of orange (like this one above) and the color below and above this stripe is not much different (gray/dark). The others come with the back black and below this midle like a shiny silver. What is the difference between th two fish? age, sex, type or what?

Steelhead develop the coloured stripe for spawning.
When they are fresh from the lake, they are chrome silver.

 

[getin]

Steelhead develop the coloured stripe for spawning.
When they are fresh from the lake, they are chrome silver.

Thanks

 

[openfire]

awsome, i was once down at the harbour front one morning having a happy smoke and a jog and i witnessed something i have never seen before. a pod of maybe 30 little steelies(2-3lb) were chasing shiners and minnows around the boats in one of the marinas. the only reason that made me see what they were doing were a flock of gulls flying over top and diving in to grab minnows as they came near the surface. it was so surreal like it was making it up in my head lol. oddly enough the diving gulls didnt seem to spook the steelies at all. good stuff!

Fascinating... do you remember what month?

 

[openfire]

Since you guys are discussing the colour of this rainbow...

I was a bit curious myself as to why this fish looks like it's been in the river for a while, since it was caught at the harbourfront?

 

[point defiance]

I notice that the male steelheads/salmons will put on their war paint much earlier than the females. Gettin ready for battle upstream