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2011/10/12 17:32:27 (permalink)

Strangely colored Steelhead

I was fortunate enought this AM to hook into a strange colored steelhead and was hoping someone could help me either A) Confirm it's a steelhead or B) ID the fish. The fish was a bruiser, pinkish orange down the sides and a white strip down the bottom of the fish, sorta colored like a brookie. The fish took a spinner and was lost a fter a tail walk and roll, snapped the treble off. It was about double the size of the steelie i had landed earlier (also released). Can anyone help?
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    dano
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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 17:35:28 (permalink)
    Are you sure is was a fish?
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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 17:46:10 (permalink)
    Ive seen steelies that in water that can look like that but just out are fine. Idk if you trout fish but sometimes you can see a rainbow with a dark side and a light side on the head but just out they look normal
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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 17:47:13 (permalink)
    brown



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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 17:49:45 (permalink)
    sounds like a brownie to me.

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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 18:23:02 (permalink)
    Dano, 100% sure it was a fish, the ducks weren't hitting this AM. And thanks everyone else, next time I'll land it for a closer examination and take pics.
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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 18:31:48 (permalink)
    Sounds to me like the lake erie monster had some babies. They are gret fighters. Iam not surprised that your treble hook broke.

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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 18:48:12 (permalink)
    this thread is useless with no pic






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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 19:05:02 (permalink)
      It was about double the size of the steelie i had landed earlier (also released). Can anyone help?


    No one can help without a pic.  Your size comment really means nothing at all, steelhead come in different sizes.  It's common to land 2 steelhead in the same spot and have one be 2x or 3x bigger than the other. 
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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 19:13:35 (permalink)
    let get back on topik for once



    i shot this thing in Ol mexico like 120 yeers ago

    did it look similar/


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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 19:17:10 (permalink)
    wow, how does one find such an interesting collection of animals(??) ??? 
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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 19:42:00 (permalink)
    how much for the weasel?



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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 19:53:05 (permalink)
    which one is the weasel ?  bottom right or top left ? 

    But to answer your question ChuckH   ,  without a pic its tough to ID a verbal description. Unless you take the verbal description and google it. maybe you will find a pic of what you saw.

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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 20:00:37 (permalink)
    the one below the coon wearing tevas is the weasel in question


    orange down the sides and a white strip down the bottom

    unless you are color blind or have been hangin behind the port-a-john with peacymike... thats a brown trout



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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 21:46:56 (permalink)
    is that a coon? I thought it looked like a badger
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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 21:54:24 (permalink)
    There ya have it.....proof that drugs and taxidermy don't mix.

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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 21:57:34 (permalink)
    I dunno, kinda resembles this guy...

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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/12 22:09:40 (permalink)
    Badger, Badger? we don't need no stinking Badgers
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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/13 10:05:28 (permalink)
    As someone else said, sounds like a brown.

    Any chance a tiger got mixed in with the lot of stocked browns?  Could explain some of the pink/orange and the looking like a brookie.  I'm from WV, and it happens all the time down here.  Tigers are relatively common, even (especially) in fingerling stocked streams.
    post edited by DrewFlu33 - 2011/10/13 10:13:12
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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/13 11:17:19 (permalink)
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    those are some interesting experiments.
    i'll try to ID them.
    let me take another hit first. puffff, hold, exhale.

    1. a racoon/groundhod that just got its hair shampood but the salon forgot to give it a manicure. nice sandals!

    2. the result when a dingo finds a wolf in heat that has silly putty hanging out of its mouth.

    next row;
    3. a cross between a weasel and a cheetah that got bit by some kind of vampire
    4. a breeding of a coyote, deer and bear (nose). must have been a threesome with the coyote being the female.

    next row;
    5. a vampire bob cat that bit the weasel/cheetah 

    6. i have no idea what the h3ll that is!!
    post edited by doubletaper - 2011/10/13 11:24:34

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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/13 11:20:16 (permalink)
    That last one is young guru See he does exist

     



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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/13 11:22:51 (permalink)
    ORIGINAL: Big Casino

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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/13 11:35:25 (permalink)

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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/13 14:15:50 (permalink)
    Looks like someone already did.

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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/13 14:38:15 (permalink)
    If ya dye her hair black she'd look like gene simons....
    post edited by PACOFRANSICO - 2011/10/13 14:42:52

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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/13 18:48:25 (permalink)
    ORIGINAL: ShutUpNFish





    I cant even believe thats a human......insanity. The DR.(s) should be shot.
    post edited by gymi03 - 2011/10/13 18:49:25
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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/13 19:27:00 (permalink)
    I have to make a guess that last pic in the group steel posted is probably a lion cub def feline
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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/13 20:38:41 (permalink)
    NO... the last pic is Tigger...you know from Winnie The Poo.

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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/13 23:22:10 (permalink)
    speaking of badgers ..

    you never heard marlin Perkens narrate Wild Kingdom like this duud

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

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    Honey badger is bad azz"


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    RE: Strangely colored Steelhead 2011/10/13 23:39:58 (permalink)
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    NO... the last pic is Tigger...you know from Winnie The Poo.


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