Native Brookies

[John Bastiani]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

The "leopard" rainbow is just a nickname for that native species of rainbow. Their spots are numerous and large - not at all like the generic rainbow stockers we see in the lower 48.

We saw the big bows on the Kvichak River gorging them selves on the salmon eggs and as we were cleaning the sockeyes we caught at the river's edge and tossing the entrails and eggs into the water there was a feeding frenzy below us.

I copied these pics from the Internet just for illustrative purposes of the leopard bows.


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That looks alot like the ones I saw in the fishing show. Man those fish are beautiful-about like finding a mint Parker with original case colors. Did you try to catch any of these rainbows while fishing for the salmon? I know in the show I was watching they used a small sack of eggs and made short cast with their fly rods to catch them in about 2 feet of water. Also Went to the fish market yesterday(called the Trout House) and got some wild salmon fillets to grill outside today.