Kokanee Festival

[Trout]

Mrs.Trout and I went to Lake Tahoe yesterday for the Kokanee festival...



it's that time of year when the kokanee salmon swim up stream to spawn...





a kokanee is a fresh water salmon and their life cycle is 2 years.



the fish up top is a cut throat trout...

[Trout]

the plan was to meet up with some Friends at the festival and then drive out to their favorite little lake for a picknick....



they said the road was a little rough but you couldn't beat the senery...



this is looking out over the Nevada side of the sierra mountains.



what goes up must go down...



Lake Tahoe is a 3 1/2 hour dive one way so it was a good 14 hour day...

Trout

[sbarron01]

When my husband & I lived in SF we visited Lake Tahoe several times and always enjoyed the drive around the lake. Can you still see a dinner plate at the bottom of the lake? (I think that was how they determined how clear the water is!)

[Terry Jay]

Way Cool, Trout. Great spawning colors in those pics.

[jim_mex]

Hi Trout - beautiful scenery and great shots of the fish. Trips out don't come much better than this. Thanks for sharing the trip with us.

Lake Tahoe is a 3 1/2 hour dive

I hope that was a typo and not the time it took to find sbarron01's plate!!!

[Trout]

hey Jim that was a good catch and come back....it was suppose to be drive...
the motto for lake Tahoe is "Keep it Blue" and at the festival we did see the "now and then" pictures of the plate...

Trout

[Sally]

What a wonderful day. Lovely trip and pictures.