Urban fishing for big rainbow trout

 Porpad river in Slovak town Svit is a small stream, with riverbed altered so it looks like artificial channel. The river originates in Tatra mountains, and this part is close to the headwaters , so it is very cold.

The urban part of the stream has chain of artificial waterfalls, and plunge pools. 

There's many fish in these pools, particularly big rainbows. Also some brown trout too.  When I started fishing with nymphs, fish was not cooperating. They willingly took bread thrown into the water, but ignored my flies.  I tried to animate my "parkinson" nymph , moving it with short strips, like streamer. This movement triggered fish attack, and I got my first rainbow. 

The tactic of stripping worm imitation proven to be successful. I caught few fish like that, but there were bigger ones. I moved upstream to the next waterfall.

After few attempts, and few fish unreliably hooked, I landed my first big rainbow. This fish was very strong and beautiful.

I moved to the next waterfall under the bridge. In few minutes, I landed even bigger rainbow. It was biggest fish of the day, it didn't fit into my landing net. I didn't measure it, but it was BIG!

All next fish were smaller. Later I switched to dry fly.  It was also working, but fish were smaller than on nymph.

I caught many nice rainbows, from 40cm to 55cm.  

This is fantastic fishery in the town limits. Something, which is not possible in Poland due to poor water management and local politics :-(