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Brown Trout Hugging river bottoms, the brown trout sports an olive-green to cinnamon-brown coloring with reddish spots along their sides. These fish were imported into the Sierra from Germany and Scotland.

Cutthroat Trout The most common fish in the mountain lakes and streams, the cutthroat can be identified by its red, orange, or yellow “slash” marks under each jaw. It is sometimes called the spotted trout.

Kokanee Salmon Introduced in the 1940s into the Tahoe area lakes, the kokanee can be found here still. It has a robust body and dusky olive to bluish coloring. It is silvery on its underside and nests in bottom gravel like the rainbow trout. During their fall spawning run, they turn bright red and can be found in large numbers in Taylor Creek, on Lake Tahoe’s South Shore. Sometimes they are also found in smaller numbers spawning up Eagle Creek, right next to Vikingsholm Castle near Emerald Bay.

Mackinaw or Lake Trout Incorrectly blamed for eliminating the cutthroat from Lake Tahoe, the mackinaw trout is also a char family member like the brooky mentioned above. It is gray with some yellow speckles that brighten during spawning season, the least colorful of all the Sierra fish. It grows to a large size; every year 20- to 30-pound mackinaws are caught in Lake Tahoe and Donner Lake, and 10-pound fish are common.