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Trout Creek is a small tributary of the Truckee River draining about 5.1 square miles (13 km 2) along the eastern crest of the Sierra Nevada.It originates east of Donner Ridge and north of Donner Lake in the Tahoe–Donner Golf Course and flows through the town of Truckee, California, to its confluence with the Truckee River in Nevada County, California, just west of Highway 267.
Secret Harbor Creek Third Creek 5,630 acre-feet per year (0.22 m 3 /s) Tunnel Creek flows into Lake Tahoe near Hidden Beach: South shore: Trout Creek: originates south of Freel Peak in the Carson Range to South Lake Tahoe [7] 25,770 acre-feet per year (1.01 m 3 /s) Upper Truckee River: flows from Red Lake Peak to South Lake Tahoe [8]
The Truckee River is a river in the U.S. states of California and Nevada.The river flows northeasterly and is 121 miles (195 km) long. [3] [6] The Truckee is the sole outlet of Lake Tahoe and drains part of the high Sierra Nevada, emptying into Pyramid Lake in the Great Basin.
The Upper Truckee River is a stream that flows northward from the western slope of Red Lake Peak in Alpine County, California to Lake Tahoe via the Truckee Marsh in South Lake Tahoe, California. The river flows northeasterly and is 23 miles (37 km) long. [3] It is Lake Tahoe's largest tributary. [4]
The presence of beaver dams has also been shown to either increase the number of fish, their size, or both, in a study of brook, rainbow and brown trout in Sagehen Creek, which flows into the Little Truckee River at an altitude of 5,800 feet (1,800 m) and is a stream typical of the eastern slope of the northern Sierra Nevada. [11]
Trout Creek may refer to Trout Creek, Alaska, a hospitality stop of the Yukon Quest sled dog race; Trout Creek (Cannonsville Reservoir tributary), in New York; Trout Creek (Deschutes River), in Oregon; Trout Creek (Lake Tahoe), California, a tributary of Lake Tahoe; Trout Creek (Los Gatos Creek tributary), California, a tributary of Los Gatos Creek
First snow of winter, Trout Creek, December 2007. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 33.7 square miles (87 km 2), of which 32.3 square miles (84 km 2) is land and 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2) (3.96%) is water, mostly Donner Lake and the Truckee River.
High water level is 5,935.8 feet (1,809.2 m) above Mean Sea Level. Donner Lake holds some of the biggest lake trout in the state. There is also a good population of rainbow and brown trout as well as Kokanee salmon. Fisherman use downriggers and troll with plugs for Kokanee salmon and rainbow trout in order to catch the trophy-sized lake trout ...