It sure looks like a Brown to me. I do not believe there are any Lake trout in Calif except in Tahoe and Donner lake. Did you catch it on light tackle? I caught one that size out of the Truckee River on 4 lb test using a Panther Martin against the current! We could not fit that monster in our cooler, a neighbor at our campsite came by to ask us how we did, I told him about my Brown and how big it was and he kind thought I was exaggerating.....until I showed him the fish and then he could not believe that I caught that fish in this small river! I was able to get some pictures on our instamatic camera and ate it that night. We drove into town the next morning my family and I in my Camaro and my parents in my dads F150. As we were driving into town, I was in front and my parents behind me, I could see in my rear view camera, that someone had left the camera on my dads step side! So I signaled my dad to pull over and as we were I saw the camera fall off the step side and my Father ran over it! That was the only proof of the biggest trout that I ever caught in my life, and its just a fisherman's story now!

It sure looks like a Brown to me. I do not believe there are any Lake trout in Calif except in Tahoe and Donner lake. Did you catch it on light tackle? I caught one that size out of the Truckee River on 4 lb test using a Panther Martin against the current! We could not fit that monster in our cooler, a neighbor at our campsite came by to ask us how we did, I told him about my Brown and how big it was and he kind thought I was exaggerating.....until I showed him the fish and then he could not believe that I caught that fish in this small river! I was able to get some pictures on our instamatic camera and ate it that night. We drove into town the next morning my family and I in my Camaro and my parents in my dad’s F150. As we were driving into town, I was in front and my parents behind me, I could see in my rear view camera, that someone had left the camera on my dad’s step side! So I signaled my dad to pull over and as we were I saw the camera fall off the step side and my Father ran over it! That was the only proof of the biggest trout that I ever caught in my life, and its just a fisherman's story now!