Salmon River Steelhead Forecast As a temperature start to warm after long cold winter the first signs of spring Are the reports of spawning Steelhead in the tributaries of Oswego County. Steelhead which are a form of searun Rainbow Trout stocked in the Great Lakes. They spend most their adult life in the waters of Lake Ontario returning in the fall & winter months to spawn in rivers and creeks that flow into the Inland sea. Even though the steelhead enters the rivers in the fall and winter the majority of the spawn takes place from mid February through late April. Once hatched they spend the juvenile stage in the river returning to the lake when they reach 6-9 inches. Prespawn fish are very aggressively feeding to build up energy to go through the rigor spawning process. As well as post spawn fish trying to put back on body mass after wearing themselves out from the spawn. With the large number of fish that enter the tributaries, the spawn is carried out over the course of a
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