Little Redfish Lake in central

Idaho Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and Wyom ...

is in the

Sawtooth National Recreation Area The Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA) is a national recreation area in central Idaho, United States that is managed as part of Sawtooth National Forest. The recreation area, established on August 22, 1972, is managed by the U.S. Forest Se ...

and Custer County. Little Redfish Lake is a picturesque mountain lake
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on the northeast edge of the Sawtooth mountain range in central

, five miles south of Stanley in and less than mile from State Highway 75. Its surface

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, and is about a mile (1.6 km) downstream from the significantly larger Redfish Lake (). Both were named for the red-scaled

sockeye The sockeye salmon (''Oncorhynchus nerka''), also called red salmon, kokanee salmon, blueback salmon, or simply sockeye, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and rivers discharging into it. This species is a P ...

salmon Salmon () is the common name for several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae, which are native to tributary, tributaries of the ...

that returned every year to

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via the Salmon River. The lakes flow into the river via Redfish Lake Creek. Besides the red-scaled salmon that come to this lake, Little Redfish Lake also has a

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, located at the bottom of the lake. In 1961,

Richard Brautigan Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – c. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. A prolific writer, he wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four bo ...

wrote portions of his novella ''

Trout Fishing in America ''Trout Fishing in America'' is a novella written by Richard Brautigan and published in 1967. It is technically Brautigan's first novel; he wrote it in 1961 before ''A Confederate General from Big Sur'', which was published first. Overview ''Tro ...

'' while camping near the lake, which is featured in several chapters of the book. Image:Mountains in the Sawtooth Range reflected on Little Redfish Lake near Stanley, Idaho.jpg, Little Redfish Lake Image:Little Redfish Lake.JPG, Little Redfish Lake barely visible from the Alpine Way Trail

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Sawtooth National Forest - Redfish Lake Recreation Complex
Lakes of Idaho Lakes of Custer County, Idaho Glacial lakes of the United States Glacial lakes of the Sawtooth National Forest {{CusterCountyID-geo-stub

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