For fishing splendor, the wonder that is Cold Creek hardly seems home in Ohio
Few streams in Ohio keep their cool sufficiently throughout the summer to sustain cold-water fish. Cold Creek, a 5-mile, meandering run of clear water that starts from holes in the ground and flushes into Sandusky Bay within view of Cedar Point, is one. The Ohio Division of Wildlife operates a trout hatchery near a source hole where rainbows are grown from eggs. Lake Erie’s steelhead fishery is almost entirely a product of that Castalia hatchery. Cold Creek, meanwhile, is a product of local geology where lowland water seeps into a limestone base and at a few sites emerges in...
