Salmo for someone that everyone thinks is so smart, you sure as arent that smart sounding to me.... you obviously have trouble reading/decihpering what people say...

ill put it in technical terms for you since you have to always make things so technical....

and its basically what i already said....

Steelhead are Rainbow trout that have a gene that causes them to be anadromous, Rainbow trout that do not go to the saltwater by definition for the last 100+ years are not Steelhead... sure, you may have eggs from a Steelhead, but if you throw them in a lake with no saltwater access, they will risidualize the gene that makes them anadromous, and revert back to being just a plain old Rainbow trout that is non anadromous... the WFC even brought that up about the plants of "Steelhead" smolt that some could residualize back to a Rainbow and actually hurt the resident Rainbow population in rivers, along with the Steelhead that could harm wild Steelhead populations....

so basically, according to your own words (lake run Rainbow), the GL Steelhead arent true Steelhead, they are just big ass Rainbow trout.... like i said...


now lets get even more technical, what happens to that gene? does it remove itself from the sequence, or does it lie dormant? i mean you are Mr. Scientist on this, so explain it, surely you or someone has done DNA sequencing on both species to find out if infact the gene is there dormant, or removed from sequence....

or, heres another thought.... remember, you guys, along with other government bodies, called Dollies and Bulls the same fish for how many years? wasnt it the 80s or so that someone finally realized that they are infact 2 different species of fish? so then, if no sequencing has been done, how do we know that Steelhead, and Rainbows arent infact 2 different species of fish? if there has been scientific studies into the DNA to negate any question, than my initial question is redundant, but if it hasnt been done, figure out a way to answer it, you of all people on this board have far greater access to that information than we do.....