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Almost all species of trout, if given the chance, drop downstream to the ocean where they usually grow to much greater size than trout confined to streams and lakes. Sea-run brookies (those that forage in the ocean and return to spawn in freshwater) are still found up in Maine. Sea-run browns grow big in Europe and enormous in Patagonia. Hardcore anglers of sea-run trout seek steelhead even in the nastiest and coldest weather. A steelhead is a rainbow that has gone to sea. Steelheads have usually lost the distinctive coloration of the freshwater rainbow (although they still have the pink lateral line). As their name suggests, steelheads have a bright, metallic coloration. Steelheads have been introduced inland, most notably in the Great Lakes, where they’re managed by several state fish and wildlife agencies. These fish leave the Great Lakes, where they’re a common quarry, and travel up tributary rivers, where more anglers await them. Like landlocked freshwater striped bass, these fish never see saltwater but are extremely popular with anglers fishing far from the sea.