We get quit a bit of business from the Great Lakes Steelheaders on our online store.

I think they have done a good job on those fisheries over the past 20 years or so.

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We use to go to New Zealand and fish the big runs of Rainbow trout up those little rivers flowing into Lake Taupo in their fall on the North Island. Joe Shirshac took groups there for decades.

They planted Rainbow trout and Steelhead from California in Lake Taupo in 1898.

From Fishing International's web site:

"The original Taupo rainbow stocks came from Northern California steelhead stocks from the Russian River and Sonoma Creek just minutes from Fishing International's headquarters."

In another article it says that they planted Rainbow trout and Steelhead from California. They said the Rainbows were from the McCloud River and Lake Almanor.

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