“fishing for carp and waiting for steelhead.”

The sport of fly fishing conjures up images of wild mountain streams, iridescent trout and lush valleys in the shadows of jagged peaks.

But on Saturday, the way-out-in-the-metropolis setting of North Atwater Park played host to experienced and beginner anglers in the first annual Friends of the Los Angeles River “Off tha’ Hook” fishing derby.

LINK (via: LA Times)

L.A. River Fishing compressed

Nature is alive and well in the concretized channel of the LA River.