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Hey to all, New guy here.

I have to say that I am an avid angler of urban streams, ditches, and golf corse ponds. I just came across this article on The Bass Pond site. I do prefer "Urban Angler" to "Brownliner", but the term does fit for a few spots I've waded through. I moved to the Twin Cities from Utah a number of years ago. One day I decided to go do some much need practice casting in a local creek near my house. I figured that the most I might catch would be some weeds, but the tree cover was very much like one of my favorite trout streams. After about three casts, I was stripping in my line when it stopped hard. It felt like a snag until the line ripped to the other side of the creek. Boy, was I thrilled to land a 21" northern without wire tippet. Since that day I have fully explored that creek and landed Sunnies, perch, Crappies, Large mouth, smallies, walleye, northern, carp, bullhead, and a Dogfish or two.

All this fishing is about a 10 min walk from my house. I have since made it a point to search out a few new urban steams a year to explore. Since most folk in these parts are inclined to prefer boats and lake fishing, I have most of the local streams to myself. Of course, I do hear the old question every time I go out, " is there anything to fish for in there other than carp". "Yes, and whats wrong with carp?" is now my automatic reply. That comes a lot from people who have houses on these waters and have never tried to fish them.

I too recall reading that quote about wetting a line when ever you can and urban fishing allows me to do just that. I don't always have the time to drive an hour or more to to a nice trout stream, and I don't always want to go to the trouble of getting the boat into the water. I like wadding streams, and I can have a blast catching some fish within 10 easy minutes of my house. I am lucky to live in a place with so much water nearby. It is honestly some of the best fishing I've ever had. I also have to bring up all the wild life i've seen living in the midst of the urban world. it also doesn't hurt that i can fish my way up to my favorite coffee shop, have a cup and go right back to fishing.

Sure some areas are pretty grungy but for the most part I find good clear water and I always fish with a small bag to grab any trash that I may come across. I do that wherever I fish anyway.

Now, thanks to this site I am really looking forward to hitting my urban streams with some vintage glass. In fact the whole reason I have become more interested in glass it the relaxed feeling I get when I run to a creek after dinner for an hours worth of fun landing a dozen+ fish. I want to slow down from the fast and sometimes frantic graphite rods I have, and just relax.

Thanks to all on this site for getting me even more excited about the new season of fun ahead.

Bryan