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Like a silver bullet.............

works 100% of the time 80%  of the time.

So I am told of sky rockets, I'm told of some tenderloins..  Life is good ??
 
     Fresh from the sea... heee heee

 
Whatcha throwin in the river ???

 
 
Round TWO.. Oh My !!

 
Right on Man !!
 

Was that a bead in it's belly?????

Yup... a bead clint!!! Crazy right???lol...

Afternoon delight is always nice when the rockets are in flight

As tuna asked: what are you throwing in the river???? By the looks of the two bellies ive sliced open recently, these fish are gorging on eggs... notice the different sizes though... looks like a mix of salmon and trout that this little lady was munching on... tuna, thanks man!

Tight lines folks

Mostly egg patterns.   Yarn eggs, beads, egg sacs (brown eggs), estaz ect.
I have been surprised that no hits on the brown egg sacs as of yet.  I think I will get some Ho eggs out and time some of those.

Interesting stuff there.  Various stages of eggs, too. I keep wanting to keep one, but bringing a cooler, and the handling until getting it home, and the fact of liking steelhead and having C&R very ingrained in me........
Vermont stocks 15-20" bows that are fed a shrimp based food in the hatchery. They eat well and I  feel zero guilt.  Bon appetit, DB. I'm sure it's gone by now.....   Thanks for passing the pics along and HT for putting them up. Cool stuff. Ends my wondering about their eating habits now.
 
 

Charlie it is very interesting... as a kid my father always cut open the bellies of trout to see what was in them so ive always carried that one with me... i killed my first steelhead ever in feb. 92.... didnt kill another trout til 97 which was a tlelve # brown that i mounted... it then wasnt until 06 when i killed my next... maybe ive killed ten since then... cutting to the chase now...... i know how you feel when it comes to CnR... i used to pretty much swear by it. Let me know if you ever want to keep one though. If im around i'll process it for ya...

Regarding eating habits; the tube nelow this fish's stomach was filled with digested bait fish... it also had a grub as well... i ve seen centipedes helgramites... caddis shucks... basically they eat everything!!! Gutted one once we got from the mouth pf oswego and it was packed with whole baiit fish fully intact...skin still silver

Looks like a big egg diet. I threw alot of colors like those with no luck this past weekend. I wasn't bottom bouncing but was probably 3/4 of the way down are you guys having luck at the top or bouncing? Please share in a pm or on a the board your choice and advise will be greatly appreciated thanks