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In September of 1871, a group of convicts broke out of a Carson City, Nevada prison and made their way to the place that is now known as Convict Creek. Police and their posse exchanged fire with the convicts and the situation turned bloody. This beautiful lake in the Sherwin Range section of the Sierra Nevada mountains, which the creek connects to, is named after that encounter, but the original Paiute name is Wit-sa-nap. Convict Lake is an extremely popular spot for fishing, and it is regularly stocked during the summertime with rainbow trout due to high demand, but fishing enthusiasts can also find German Brown Trout and sucker fish in the lake as well. The lake is incredibly scenic, with mountains rising up on all sides, and there is a three mile hiking loop around the lake as well as a trail that leads to the Sierra Crest.

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