Building a kind of half platform and half stone screen over the pools where they abound, the Indians take a long wire, the end of which they have sharpened and bent to form a rude hook.

Then, without bait, or any attempt at sport, they lower the hook and as rapidly as the fish appear, "snag" them out, literally by the hundreds.

Most of these are salted down for winter use.

This is supposed to be a native, and the traditions of the Indians confirm the supposition.
The largest native Tahoe trout caught, of which there is any authentic record, was captured not far from Glenbrook and weighed 35 pounds, and, strange to say, its capturer was an amateur.

This, the boatmen tell me, is generally the case--the amateurs almost invariably bringing in the largest fish.