Grab the fishing gear and go fishing this weekend...for FREE!

Grab the fishing gear and go fishing this weekend...for FREE!Ohio residents may fish in all of Ohio's public waters...

A largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, hunting among water plants.
Photo (George Grall Getty Images/National Geographic Creative) 

Get a 'fish-eye' view of Big Creek

Lake Metroparks protects our local waterways like the Chagrin and Grand rivers and their tributaries. Our rivers are vital natural resources and provide recreation for residents of Lake County and beyond.

A underwater view of the fish in the Big Creek
at Liberty Hollow.

Post from Outdoors with Frischkorn

Jeffrey L. Frischkorn takes you with him as he chronicles his outdoors adventures around Northeast Ohio and beyond. 

...Spring had come to the creek at long last, and not a moment too soon to suit most people.

But steelheaders are not most people, not in the conventional sense anyway. Some steelheaders even crave the nastiest, cold-nose-running weather imaginable. Not so much because the angling is better but rather for the reason such weather conditions help keep other, weaker, members of this tribe huddled around a fireplace.

I don’t go that far, though truth be told steelheading is the only type of fishing for which I’d give up a hunting trip...

Click here to read Jeff's blog.