Rainbow Trout Details
- Water Type: freshwater
- Latin Name: Oncorhynchus mykiss
- Common Names: redband trout
- Water Temp: 55-60 degrees
- World Record: 43 lbs, 6 ounces caught by Adam Konrad on June 5th 2007 in a Saskatchewan lake, the girth on this fish was 34 inches setting a new world record
- Last Modified By: baystateangler on 04/21/15 06:57 AM
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winthrop55 posted in NH 
gottalovelures posted in MA 
gottalovelures posted in MA 
frambrett posted in MA 
nefisherman92 posted in MA 
nefisherman92 posted in MA Baits and Tackle for Rainbow Trout
Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices
- tried power bait from shore and worked pretty good, but trolling with a silver and blue spoon was the best.
Streamer Check Prices
- floated a worm on barbless hook
Live Bait (Other) Check Prices
- stone nyphs work best here with a cane pole. work all the deep holes and pay attn to possible bears. Small spinners too. all over the river. Watch out for grower fields, u might get shot at.
Lure (Other) Check Prices
- small spinner like panther martins and kastmasters into and around the rocks. dusk
- panther martin, rooster tails worms try anywhere theres deep water.
- panther martin black w/ gold/red striped blade slow rolled thru currents
Other Check Prices
- salmon eggs in cheese sauce. drifting thru current on 4' leader bro and friends
- power bait and floating a worm
In-Line Spinner Check Prices
- panther martin and crawlers and eggs produce
Nightcrawler Check Prices
- between crawlers and power bait I cought em
- power bait, small spinners. This lake is prime, lot's of records caught here. lots of big fish. bass, catfish, crappie, you name it. call em
- float it and use minnows closer to the dam.
- caught many trout here catch and release here. fish from the lake up and watch for the falls. You can walk the shoreline at the tree level. steep banks. bit of a walk. park at the launch ramp and follow the canal.
- Used small clear plastic h20 bobber w/ 3' leader #6 barbless hook. Floated off the bottom with a shot of air in em'
- Floated off bottom about 18". Tossed to right of swirls
- crawlers and rainbow sherbert power bait floatin type.
- floated under a bobber 2' one small split shot. Twist a bobber style with 1/2 h2o in it for weight
Rainbow Trout Description
Rainbow trout are silvery-gray to dark-green on the back and sides. They have a pinkish or reddish lateral stripe, sometimes with lavendar or orange overtones, from the gill cover running the length of the fish to the tail. The caudal fin has rows of small dark spots, and there are more small blackish spots sprinkled on the head and sides, and spotting on the dorsal and adipose fins. The belly is whitish. The lower fins are pale-pink without spots. At spawning time, males become deeply colored with an intensely red side stripe. Steelhead can be separated from similar-looking coho and chinook salmon by looking at the inside of the mouth. The mouth is completely white in the steelhead. In the salmons, the mouth has some gray or black. Steelhead and other deepwater, big-lake rainbows are more silvery than stream fish, with less of a side stripe. Great Lakes steelhead can grow to 30 inches and larger.
The Rainbow Trout was introduced into NH in 1878 and has been stocked extensively since that time. It thrives best in cold water but can withstand higher temperatures than the Brook Trout. It is well adapted to either lake or stream life. It eats mainly insects except in lakes where the diet of larger fish consists mainly of baitfish.
This fish may be taken in a variety of ways and is easily caught on flies. It jumps repeatedly when hooked and puts up a good fight. It has an excellent flavor when taken from wilderness streams, but only fair when not in prime condition or recently released from a hatchery. Rainbows are very popular with anglers as they are easily taken, fight well and are very tasty. The average size in NH streams is between 6-12 inches and lest than 0.75 pound. In some large lakes(Ex: Winnipesaukee) rainbows between 3-5 pounds are not unusual. The state record for NH for Rainbow Trout is 35.50" in length, 15 lbs. 7.2 oz. in weight, caught on the Pemigewasset River in Bristol, NH on 9/16/1996 by Lance King.
-Massachusetts State Record is 13 lbs 13 oz caught by Jeffrey Greco in 1999 at Wachusett Reservoir