Yesterday I decided to go down to the Mcvic and try my luck. There was father there with his daughter fishing , we got to talking and he had mentioned that he use to fish steelhead when he was kid and decided to give it a try again. While we were talking one made a splash and headed up stream right were she was standing , she was quite excited over that . I offered some advice ( not that I know a lot) and a couple of the pink worms I have had good luck with. As I was walking away I thought of the comment made by tailout and his elite group , and you know what fishing is for everybody no matter what the species is, including steelhead.
Instead of making another post I thought i'd put this up too .
A friend of mine offered me a book to read it called Black Bay & Black Sturgeon River Native Fisheries Rehabilitation . I found this part interesting because it mentions the rainbow trout.
Coaster Brook Trout are a large - bodied potadromous phenotype of brook trout ( Salveinus fontinalis ). Once thought to be a sub - species , recent genetic studies suggest that some ( as yet unidentified ) environmental trigger causes stream - resident brook trout to migrate into Lake Superior ( D'Amelio and Wilson 2008 ) . Coasters were once widespread throughout Lake Superior , and were known to reproduce in at least 118 tributaries , including the Black Sturgeon River ( Newman and Dubois 1997 ) . Exploitation and habitat degradation , possibly exacerbated by completion from NON - NATIVE RAINBOW TROUT ( Onchorhynchus mykiss ) ( Fausch 2008), RAPIDLY LED TO THE DECLINE IN COASTER NUMBERS . By the 1920's only a handful of streams were contributing coasters to Lake Superior . The LSC fish community objective for brook trout is to maintain widely distributed , self -sustaining populations in as many of the historical habitats as is practical. (Horns et al.2003) . I learned a couple of things from this , and the one that stands out is no matter the size of the body of water when you introduce a non native species into a specific area it could and will affect one or more of the other species in that area.