Where can you catch Rainbow Trout and SteelHeads in Richmond Hill/Markham

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I caught them from 4" to 1lb. Lots of them in the 7" range in the fall while salmon fishing as well. They are ravenous for salmon roe bags...which is pretty sad since they often take the roe bags pretty deep and they bleed badly, belly up and wash downstream.

If you really want to try for them, Oshawa Creek and Bowmanville Creek usually have some deeper holes at the lower stretches closer to the lake that may hold a few stragglers late into the season, or try large rivers like lower Credit River around the Erindale Park area. The bigger the river and the deep the pools, the more potential it has for late season steelhead. Steelhead need cool and oxygenated water. As late spring turns into early summer and the river gets shallower and warmer, deep pools with a decent current or deep runs will be the best bet.

My first ever steelhead was caught last Sunday of May at the pool above Streetville Dam...on a 1" chunk of worm after I missed the hit from the previous drift.

Late season steelhead is there and catchable...you just have to spend a lot of TIME and be willing to put in the FOOTWORK to cover a lot of stream to find them. Many of the fish will be line shy, and the number of fish are low already, so be prepared for some skunks.

I'm not saying you can't catch them late season...just don't expect to see the number of fish you saw in the report...and it is definitely harder than it looks. A lot of the reports are 1-2 weeks old anyways and a lot had changed in those 2 weeks.