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Lake Tahoe (/ ˈ t ɑː h oʊ /; Washo: Dáʔaw) is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the Western United States, straddling the border between California and Nevada.Lying at 6,225 ft (1,897 m) above sea level, Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America, [4] and at 122,160,280 acre⋅ft (150.7 km 3) it trails only the five Great Lakes as the largest by volume in the United ...
Lahontan cutthroat trout (LCT) is the only trout species native to Fallen Leaf Lake, Lake Tahoe and the Truckee River Basin but were extirpated by introduction of predatory non-native lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), other competing non-native salmonids, and overfishing. Re-introduction into Fallen Leaf Lake of the Pilot Peak strain of ...
Lake Trout tend to feed on a multitude of different species, including sculpins, Cladocera, and suckers. As the weight of Lake Trout increases they tend to primarily feed on the Tahoe Sucker, as Tahoe Suckers comprise the greatest proportion of food items found within the stomach of Lake Trout larger than 19.9 inches. [ 8 ]
The river is heavily used for recreation, including whitewater rafting and fly fishing. A common rafting run is the River Ranch Run. Starting from the outlet gates at Lake Tahoe stretching about 3 miles (4.8 km), the run ends at the River Ranch Restaurant. These rapids are almost all class 1 and class 2.
Clear Lake (Pomo: Lypoyomi) [2] [3] is a natural freshwater lake in Lake County in the U.S. state of California, north of Napa County and San Francisco. It is the largest natural freshwater lake wholly within the state, with 68 square miles (180 km 2) of surface area. (Lake Tahoe is partially in Nevada.) [4] It has an age of nearly 500,000 years.
Goose Lake Sucker: Catostomus occidentalis lacusanserinus: Tahoe Sucker: Catostomus tahoensis: Owens Sucker: Catostomus fumelventris: Lost River Sucker: Catostomus luxatus: Klamath Largescale Sucker: Catostomus snyderi: Klamath Smallscale Sucker: Catostomus rimiculus: Modoc Sucker: Catostomus microps: Santa Ana Sucker: Catostomus santaanae ...
In 1973, the Nevada Department of Wildlife began stocking the Spooner Lake with trout. [6] Trout species include the native Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi), as well as multiple non-native species and hybrids including rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), brown trout (Salmo trutta), bowcutt trout (rainbow x cutthroat), brook trout (Salvenlinus fontinalis), and tiger ...
The kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also known as the kokanee trout, little redfish, silver trout, kikanning, Kennerly's salmon, Kennerly's trout, or Walla, [2] is the non-anadromous form of the sockeye salmon (meaning that they do not migrate to the sea, instead living out their entire lives in freshwater).