

It wasn’t necessarily a desire for big fish, but perhaps it was the satisfaction of catching fish that were unobtainable for the masses of guys that I eventually managed to fool a few respectable browns, and I began to develop a taste for things that weren’t so easily obtained. After catching hundreds and thousands of rainbows, I wanted the challenge of the wily brown trout, and I began to throw minnow plugs in the evenings. Those skills eventually translated into catching steelhead, which also lead to catching coastal cutthroat trout. My matriculation on the Truckee River involved catching hundreds of gullible rainbows on nightcrawlers and spinners. Catching the big three of the trout world also gave me the skills needed to catch some of the more aberrant species.

It’s provided countless hours of enjoyment for me throughout my fishing career. Their aggressive behavior makes them an easy target for anglers looking to learn more about how and where to find trout.There is really nothing wrong with catching stub tailed hatchery rainbow, brown, and brook trout. They also tend to outcompete other species for the most productive water on the stream. They can take full advantage of all water types within the most turbulent rivers or cascading creeks. Rainbow trout are the true pioneers of cold water streams. and Canada is whether to refer to the rainbow trout introduce within the Great Lakes as steelhead as they retain many of the same attributes as their sea-faring ancestors. In the last century, a point of contention amongst anglers in the U.S. Unlike salmon, these steelhead do survive these spawning runs and can return continuously. Steelhead are rainbow trout that make their way to the ocean to take advantage of larger food resources and return to their streams of origin to reproduce much like salmon. The rainbow trout is the most commonly stocked fish throughout the world and can be found on every continent except for Antarctica.

The Pacific Northwest possesses the largest numbers of wild fish as well as the most diversity of subspecies. Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) are native to the west coast of North America.
