As the trees begin to change colors in Lake Tahoe, so do the salmon. Taylor Creek, one of the alpine lake’s 63 tributaries, is flush with bright-red kokanee salmon swimming upstream for spawning.

Kokanee salmon were introduced into Lake Tahoe in 1944 by a fish hatchery in Tahoe City, but the circumstances surrounding their introduction are murky.

Kokanee salmon pictured inside the Stream Profile Chamber at Taylor Creek Visitor Center, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, in South Lake Tahoe, CA. The chamber provides guest the opportunity to view and ...

LAKE TAHOE — Under a golden canopy of quaking aspen, red Kokanee salmon swim up Taylor Creek on the south edge of Lake Tahoe to spawn just as their larger cousins do in the Pacific Northwest and ...

LEAVES, YES, BUT FISH, TOO: The northern Gold Rush country, Donner Pass, and Lake Tahoe attract a good share of leaf peepers each fall, but people visiting the area for a bit of brilliant foliage ...

LAKE TAHOE – At midnight, researchers aboard the vessel John Le Conte — an old 37-foot diesel-powered salmon trawler — dropped a net into icy cold waters.

Lake Tahoe, the world’s clearest large lake, could become even clearer over the next few years due to changes in its plankton population, scientists said in a new report. Researchers at UC Davis ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. -- One of Lake Tahoe's more popular nature shows of the year is off to a promising start. Thousands of kokanee salmon are swimming up Taylor Creek off the lake's south ...

Jeff and Patti Kinzbach enjoyed their West Coast trip with stops at Lake Tahoe, a visit to the Buttermilk Boulders and great photo ops of a bear fishing for Salmon.