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[fishinshawn]

jack steelhead?

Yes, they exist, as a small percentage of every run. Mother natures way of making sure some natural disaster doesn't wipe out a given generation of fish. Many folks will catch one and think it is just a trout...

 

[DrTheopolis]

Compared to salmon, steelhead jacks are a very very tiny percentage of the run.

I've caught two in my life. They had dispropotionately large dorsal fins is about all I really remember of them.

 

[steelheader19]

Come on guys give it up for chezjfrey!!! Clap clap

 

[rogerdodger]

Yes, they exist, as a small percentage of every run. Mother natures way of making sure some natural disaster doesn't wipe out a given generation of fish. Many folks will catch one and think it is just a trout...

they may exist but what are they? the scientific definition is not clear to me as of yet, my quick search on them turned up a variety of possible descriptions, most are not based on actual life stage (as for salmon) but more a term being applied to a small steelhead (1-salt buck or in other cases, a trout being misidentified and retained as "jack steelhead"...)....Oregon Permanent Regulations do not include the term "jack steelhead" so with regard to the fishing regs, they seem to be "unfish". :lol:

cheers

 

[troutmasta]

Nice Job-

Lets hit the river soon!


I think a jack steelhead is a trout, my $.02

 

[halibuthitman]

regardless of scientific explanation basicly anyone who tries to call a fish under about 24 inches a steelhead looks like a tool... don't embarrass yourself amongst your peers by saying " yeah hooked up on a good one... but managed to land a jack steelhead'' its reaching, desperate... and really hurts your river cred-

 

[1 nut in the water]

Monster Nook

Monster Nook

regardless of scientific explanation basicly anyone who tries to call a fish under about 24 inches a steelhead looks like a tool... don't embarrass yourself amongst your peers by saying " yeah hooked up on a good one... but managed to land a jack steelhead'' its reaching, desperate... and really hurts your river cred-

So this 75# nook ain't gunna impress the chicks?

 

[DrTheopolis]

" yeah hooked up on a good one... but managed to land a jack steelhead''

I think it's worth mwntioning just for the fact it's such a rarity.

 

[halibuthitman]

I think it's worth mwntioning just for the fact it's such a rarity.

they aren't rare at all, I caught 7 of them just in big creek last year... the Rogue and Umpqua have very large numbers of them as well.. caught 2 in one day on the Nehalem last year... they are quite common in healthy native populations-

 

[Modest_Man]

Half-pounders aren't jacks.

 

[halibuthitman]

Half-pounders aren't jacks.

I didn't say they were-

 

[halibuthitman]

most of them were 12-20 inches and had sea lice on them-

 

[ChezJfrey]

Speak of the devil! Was fishing with Dozer and he caught a jack summer today:



LOL

 

[DrTheopolis]

Could be a stocker (if it's clipped) that never went out - I believe that happens, too.

The couple I've caught had dispropotionately large fins, FWIW.

Cool fish, regardless.

 

[ChezJfrey]

Could be a stocker (if it's clipped) that never went out - I believe that happens, too.

The couple I've caught had dispropotionately large fins, FWIW.

Cool fish, regardless.

I was just kidding about the 'jack'...just thought it would be funny to put this newfound, smallish fish on this thread. It was a summer with the max clip, but on the small side...like 22 inches. Crossed my mind that it could have been a non-migrate, but it still seems unusually big for a Clack resident. I'm inclined to think it's just a shorter than average, fall colored summer.

 

[skunk]

Speak of the devil! Was fishing with Dozer and he caught a jack summer today:


LOL

Are those the plaid shorts I spy there!!! Brrrrrrrrr.

 

[ChezJfrey]

Are those the plaid shorts I spy there!!! Brrrrrrrrr.

Good eye...yes, those are the famous lucky shorts.

 

[rippin fish lips]

Nice fish chez.

 

[dozer365]

Are those the plaid shorts I spy there!!! Brrrrrrrrr.

The shorts were fine. My hands were freezing though. Lol. Maybe I need to find some plaid gloves I can make lucky for the winter season haha the shorts worked that day. Landed two summers. That cookie on a spoon an another bout 27 inch on a pink an purple jig. Both released to down migrate maybe bigger returnees next summer.