Fish and Fishing 



fly with avidity, particularly the coachman, black 

 hackle, June-spinner and the black prince. The 

 best month for fishing is July. 



One of the most interesting of the salmon trout 

 is the Lake Tahoe, or silver trout. This fish 

 grows to a weight of twenty-five to thirty pounds 

 and spawns in the depth of the lake. It is prob- 

 ably sought for by a greater number of anglers 

 than any other fish of the Pacific slope waters. 

 Being reached in afew hours from San Francisco, 

 the resident anglers of that city make Lake Tahoe 

 the Mecca of their outings, and no visiting angler 

 rounds up his fishing tour unless he essays these 

 big trout. 



The hotels at the lake are crowded all through 

 the season, for the fish are large and numerous. 

 The Lake Tahoe trout is found in the following 

 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. 



The steel-head trout (Salmo gairdneri), also 

 known as the hard-head, is a large sea trout 

 growing to a weight of twenty pounds, or more, 

 and is migratory like the salmon, ascending rivers 

 to spawn many hundreds of miles into the State 

 of Idaho, and into other sections. It inhabits 

 coastwise streams from British Columbia south to 

 Santa Barbara, California, and those west of the 

 Cascade Range. It is very abundant in the Lower 

 Columbia, the Russian, and Klamath rivers. Its 

 edible qualities are inferior to those of the same 

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