A little urban trout fishing

Me and my friend Mark went to the local spot Friday morning and did pretty good.  We had rain the day before which brought the water level up and added some color, perfect conditions for the following day.  Best fish of the day was my 16" brown, I went a total of 11 for 13.  All of my fish came on a UV green firetiger Rapala CD1, they just couldn't stay off of it.  The Major Craft Finetail Glass 63L+/Daiwa SS 700 combo did an outstanding job. 

A young of the year brown and rainbow. Both wild fish.

Mark with a nice 12" brown.  ABU Cardinal 3 is outfitted with Avail parts.

This was on one of two cold-water streams in the Detroit area.  We don't have much around here due to the urban runoff which makes most of the streams like bath water this time of year.  The one we were fishing is a tributary of a larger river that flows out to Lake St Clair.  That particular river has a dam that once powered a cider mill, but heavy rains caused the river to divert around it, so now steelhead can get into the cold creek we were fishing in order to spawn.  Many people in the area don't think this particular creek holds many fish, but being highly pressured the water must be learned.  I've spent a lot of time on this one over the years and seldom get skunked.