236 The Trouts of America 



cally alter their habits as to become habitual 

 surface feeders when the type of the species, in- 

 habiting waters but a few miles distant, seldom, 

 if ever, come to the top of the water. Instances 

 have been known, however, when these individual 

 traits have been developed in trout, but the lakes 

 in which they lived were often widely separated. 

 I am rather inclined to believe that the trout 

 of Webber Lake are an entirely different sub- 

 species. Be this theory wrong or right, the fact 

 remains that the fish of Webber Lake rise freely 

 to the fly and fight bravely, and the angling tour- 

 ist visiting Lake Tahoe should not fail to see 

 the sister lake, and for his information I state 

 that the Black Hackle, red-bodied Brown Hackles, 

 and rather sombre-colored wing flies are the most 

 attractive. Strange to note, these fish which 

 spawn in streams do not rise well to the Coach- 

 man or any other flies dressed with light wings. 



The Lake Tahoe trout is found in the follow- 

 ing-named lakes and rivers: Lakes Tahoe, 

 Pyramid, Webber, Donner, Independence, and 

 in the rivers Truckee, Humboldt, Carson, and in 

 most of the streams of the eastern slope of the 

 Sierra Nevada. They also inhabit the head 

 waters of the Feather River, west of the Sierra 



