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why do salmon (not steelhead) eat roe? 
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In nature it's common for animals to kill the progeny or potential progeny of another competitor.
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what do you meen? I thought roe was steelhead bait.
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same thing for steelhead
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i alwas thought those egg fishermen were just flossing the steelies. damn roe snaggers.
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Roe Snaggers.  Great, now I've got this visual of guys lined up with little tiny hooks trying to snag Salmon eggs.
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Add cutthroat to that list...egg chomping bastards!
 
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might as well add Crabs , rock fish , pogies , flag perch, green ling, bullheads, and all the other JUNK fish we catch in the cove !!
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mikey, i was sayin 'not steelhead' cuz salmon (suposedly) dont eat in the river
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It's mostly the same for both. Remove potential competitors and probably an instinctual response from their freshwater juvenile life history to eat eggs for food.
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My theory has always been Salmon do it for the reasons Goose stated - for a fish to ensure the survival of ONLY their offspring. Steelhead, on the other hand, do it for food, just like the Cutts. No one knows for sure though...
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That's one of those questions like.... Why do salmon jump so much in the rivers? Some say they're loosening up their eggs but I see big buck silvers jumping as well. Who knows.
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oh casting if you would have ever fished with me you would know why they jump in the rivers.
Cuz they don't have a middle finger.
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haha i must tell that joke every outing
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Quote:
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My theory has always been Salmon do it for the reasons Goose stated - for a fish to ensure the survival of ONLY their offspring. Steelhead, on the other hand, do it for food, just like the Cutts. No one knows for sure though...
in 19 years of steelhead fishing, i've had 2 actually swallow the hook -- one was on eggs 3 years ago, the other on soft plastics 3 weeks ago.
salmon on the other hand, if i plan on releasing some fish, i always try to get a quick hookset because kings and silvers will usually swallow the hook if you let them chomp on eggs for too long, and be bleeding to death by the time i get them to hand.
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My 1st steelhead swallowed an egg cluster completely down to her stomach.
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Quote:
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My 1st steelhead swallowed an egg cluster completely down to her stomach.
now that was one greedy, hungry bitch!!!!! 
good thing you finally woke up and set the hook otherwise she probably would have crapped out the hook, leader and all. if that had happened, would that have been considered butt-flossing?  
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Speaking of butts Dean?
 
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Speaking of butts Dean?
niiiiiiice.... 
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now that there was funny.
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Now back to watching Season 5 of Weeds.
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