The Wildlife News

March 23, 2008

  • Idaho steelhead season looks good

    Ralph Maughan

    For deep inlanders, steelhead are sea-run rainbow trout — big anadromous fish like salmon. Unlike salmon, steelhead don’t spawn and die, but return to the ocean (although in reality few fish survive to run and spawn a second time). Steelhead lose the characteristic red band (the rainbow) that freshwater rainbow trout have. Idaho’s steelhead runs…

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