Shoshone Lake is the largest backcountry lake in the lower 48 with no road to it — you reach it by paddling up the Lewis River Channel or hiking in, which keeps the crowds honest and the experience genuinely wild. It holds brown trout and lake trout in big, cold, lonely water. The famous event is the fall, when the browns stack into the channel between Shoshone and Lewis to spawn and a patient angler with a streamer can have the kind of day they'll never quite shut up about. Earn it on foot or by paddle, and treat the spawning fish gently.
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