![Superior resident Steve Plakke teaches his 13-year-old son Orion how to fly fish on Cedar Creek last Friday. Orion pulls up a cutthroat trout from a pool created by a habitat improvement project facilitated by Trout Unlimited and the U.S. Forest Service. (Kathleen Woodford/Mineral Independent)](https://hagadone.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/ARTICLE_180829968_EP_-1_FXBPZXNJTXGE_t1170.jpg?5cc718665ab672dba93d511ab4c682bb370e5f86)
Superior resident Steve Plakke teaches his 13-year-old son Orion how to fly fish on Cedar Creek last Friday. Orion pulls up a cutthroat trout from a pool created by a habitat improvement project facilitated by Trout Unlimited and the U.S. Forest Service. (Kathleen Woodford/Mineral Independent)
August 29, 2018
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Flat Creek fish habitat improvement focus of group
Just downstream from where a group of county and state agency officials had stopped to examine the work done on Cedar Creek was Superior resident Shawn Plakke, who was teaching his 13-year-old son, Orion, how to fly fish. A deep pool, created by logs installed last year through a habitat improvement project, yielded a school of 6-inch cutthroat trout. Trout that Orion skillfully pulled to shore after landing his fly on the still, clear water surface.