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…