Definition of smolt
: a young salmon or sea trout about two years old that is at the stage of development when it assumes the silvery color of the adult and is ready to migrate to the sea
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While specific causes have not been identified, the department is confident that our statewide downturn in productivity can point directly back at smolt survival after entering the ocean.
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Minnows tend to work best in the mornings and then swimbaits in the evenings as the stripers feed on the steelhead smolts.
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Meanwhile, the Oregon Legislature is mulling a $350,000 supplemental budget request to operate Leaburg Hatchery for another year and produce a quarter million spring chinook salmon smolts to inject into the upper Willamette River system.
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Spawning salmon means salmon smolt, and there aren't a lot of things that rainbows and char like to eat more.
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Fry and smolts almost immediately begin using the trees for protection from larger fish and birds.
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Schools of smolt salmon flicker like quicksilver, preparing for their journey out to sea.
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Nearly twice that many have gone to Ship Creek, an annual average of 256,000 silver smolt over the last five years.
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Striper fishing was good last week after steelhead smolts were released at Discovery.
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Origin and Etymology of smolt
Middle English (Scots)
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