Should I have left the lake earlier?

[Newt]

[ayjay]

.....only if you are using carbon rods,fibreglass is OK.

[Apache]

I wouldn't like to be fishing with any sort of rod in that, just in case.

[Newt]

Matt - with glass rods you are fine as long as the rod is low as it would be in a pod. But if you get a fish on and it's raining to have the rod surface wet, you have a real decision to make about raising the rod high in the air.

[Apache]

That was what I thinking about Newt.

[Little Tinca]

What a wonderful picture I just love extremes of weather......but we don't get to much in the UK......did anybody see on one of the cable?sky programs a guy fishing for Steel??? something or other and who got struck by lightning and survived........he really did have a dodgy experience........ still fishes though but legs it at the first sign of a cloud ......bless him he was really brave.

[Barnese]

Steelheads? Newt might be able to tell you something about these...trout I believe??

[Newt]

Yup.

 

Oncorhynchus mykiss and also known in the US as

rainbow trout, bow, redsides, red-band trout, silver trout, steelhead, kamloops.

 

"Steelhead" because the color when they first enter the river to prepair for spawning activity is a chrome/silver sort of blue. They will slowly transform to the Rainbow color pattern that is so well known.

[Little Tinca]

Bloody 'ell they have a few aliases sounds more like a Convict cichlid also known as cichlidoma nigrofacetatum (phonetic spelling)