Salmon in Lake Tahoe

Strangely enough, there are salmon in Lake Tahoe. Lest ye disbelieve due to the improbability of salmon somehow crossing over the Sierra Nevada Mountains into an internal drainage basin which starts in Lake Tahoe's feeder streams and ends in Pyrimid Lake north of Reno, I will resolve the incongruous mystery with the simple answer: "There was an accident with the spawning tanks at the Fish Hatchery in Tahoe City in 1940. The salmon got out into the lake. It was a boo-boo." So now they have bright red salmon spawning in Lake Tahoe thanks to Man and our inevitable and continuous accident rate. I went to see them last weekend. Here's some pictures.

And another:

The stream was pretty well full of fish, but I needed better filters to photograph them.

The banks were also lined with hundreds of people watching the spectacle. Black Bears were known to come down and chow on the dead and dying salmon. Waste not, want not.