Some 2007 pictures on Pittsburgh South Side's Hot Metal Bridge, now a Rails to Trail bridge

[pasto76]

6. awesome. Thanks for posting the pics. HMB was good fishing.

used to be a water discharge just upstream from the north end; awesome white bass there. Those sheer rock banks; good smallies at daybreak. Good largemouth along every foot of the Mon. My fav catfishing spot was a few miles upstream.

Mom and dad grew up in Southside. Dad worked those mills when I was very little. I lived on 28th and sarah street - in Mom's old catholic school for a year. Miss those rivers a lot, very often. Colorado is nice, but the rivers where I grew up are hard to beat. Lots of new buildings there, which is nice. The 80s and early 90s were hard there. They've rebuilt an economy which they deserve

addendum: the shot from the bridge looking downtown is where I saw a duck get eaten one morning. 2 ducks, me motoring up in the boat. They both start to run/swim/flap for take off. One stumbles, and vanishes. I sat for about 10 minutes waiting for it to surface. As you can see in the pic, that pool is quite large, with line of sight all around. There are muskies in there, but there are also some really large catfish.