Michael Edmondson of Cyril recently caught this 8-pound rainbow trout at Medicine Creek. (Photo provided)

December and its cold weather is prime time for trout fishing in Oklahoma.

Nine-hundred pounds of hatchery-raised rainbows were put in Oklahoma City’s Dolese Youth Park Pond on Tuesday as trout fishing is now underway there for the 14th season.

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s six winter trout areas are open and anglers are having success, like Michael Edmondson of Cyril who caught an 8-pounder earlier this week at Medicine Creek.

Medicine Creek, which runs through the downtown cobblestone community of Medicine Park, replaced Quartz Mountain in January 2013 as the winter trout fishing area in southwest Oklahoma because trout could no longer survive at Quartz Mountain due to golden algae.