Trib fishing., Unicorn surprise.

I hit a week know trib yesterday with my Dad just to get some exercise.

Didn’t expect much with no real substantial rain or decent water levels but I took a shot at it.

A couple of nice Chinook and to my surprise two beautiful Atlantic’s. One of the chinooks had a mangled jaw from what I would guess was a injury from a spoon early in life.

Atlantic one.

Atlantic two

Wow nice fish! Beauty Atlantics..

Very nice, well done

Good job that fish been on my bucket list for many years but not yet to get one hopefully this year

You should be able to target them in the river, we’ll see what the future brings

im having trouble differentiating Atlantics from Steelheads.
What should i look out for? they look identical to me.

Well done. Thanks for sharing.

nice ones there and looking quite healthy

Sillylion

Atlantic’s look way more like fresh silver browns than any Steelhead. First Atlantic’s have big spots on their gill plate and their spots on their backs are like an x where Steelhead spots are more round. Steelhead also have spots all over their tails where Atlantic’s do not. If your having difficulty just do a google search for identification of each species. It’s not difficult to tell a Steelhead from an Atlantic at all once you research both species.

Atlantic’s look way more like fresh silver browns than any Steelhead. First Atlantic’s have big spots on their gill plate and their spots on their backs are like an x where Steelhead spots are more round. Steelhead also have spots all over their tails where Atlantic’s do not. If your having difficulty just do a google search for identification of each species. It’s not difficult to tell a Steelhead from an Atlantic at all once you research both species.

Well stated!!!! BTW ,beautiful fish,congrats! 👍🙂

Nice Tic’s!
Well stated above. The deep fork in the atlantic’s tail is a dead give away as well.
Cheers

Some Atlantic’s do t have the deep fork. I went 5/8 on the today mixed in with a ton of Chinook and one brown. The Atlantic here doesn’t have that deep of a fork tail.

Thanks a lot disco, im gonna write this down on a little sticky note; i've googled in the past for this serveral times but there seem to be soo many variations from drawings to pictures depending on where they're cought it just confuses me. This will definitely help