* Surface Area....193 square miles
* Capacity........39 trillion gallons
* Maximum Depth.......1645 feet
* Shoreline........71 miles
* Daily evaporation.....335,000,000 gallons
* Length.....22 miles
* Width.......12 miles
First Fish:
The Wascals get their share:
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LAKE TROUT OR MACKINAW
Salvelinus namaycush
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
The background color of the body is usually dark gray, but varies from pale to almost black. The entire body except for the belly is covered with large pale spots. The dorsal and caudal fins are marked with dark wavy lines and spots. The caudal fin is deeply forked. The head is pointed and the body is relatively slender.
DISTRIBUTION IN CALIFORNIA
Self-sustaining populations of lake trout are present in Lake Tahoe, Fallen Leaf Lake, Stony Ridge Lake, and Donner Lake, all of which are in the Truckee River drainage. Lake trout have recently been introduced into other waters.
INTERESTING FACTS
This trout tends to live in the deeper pans of lakes and is usually caught by trolling with wire line, to which large spinners and frequently minnows are attached. It commonly feeds upon other fish and grows to large sizes; 15 pounds is not rare. This is the only trout which does not construct some sort of nest and cover its eggs with gravel. Its eggs are dropped into the loose rock or ledges and shelves on the lake bottom. The lake trout or mackinaw, as it is often called in California, was brought here from Michigan in 1894. It has not been widely distributed because of its tendency to feed upon other trout. It is sometimes blamed for the disappearance of the Lahontan cutthroat from Lake Tahoe. This trout was originally described in 1792 by Johann Walbaum from fish taken in Hudson Bay and called namaycush, an Indian name.
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