For thousands of years, native people of the Tahoe Sierra fished Lake Tahoe, the Truckee River, and Pyramid Lake for food. Depending on the season, they caught Lahonton Cutthroat, Mountain Whitefish, Tui Chub, Cui Ui fish, and many others from these productive waters, while taking care to keep all the fish species plentiful. Their methods included clubbing large fish in shallow water, spinning fishing line from local plant fibers, using sharpened bone-sliver gorges and bait such as worms, minnows, or fish eggs, and making basket dip and lift nets to capture adult fish and small fry. They also reused worn basket trays as fish scoops, anchored gill nets with stone weights, and used stone traps and stick weirs to guide fish into confined spaces where a two-pronged willow branch served as a spear. Fish were split, boned, and dried whole on scaffolds, shrubs, trees, in baskets, or over fires, then strung into large willow-bound bundles. They also ate broiled fresh fish, and dried minnows and fish eggs, milled them in metates or mortars, and mixed them with seed or flour to make high protein flatbread.