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Rainbow trout fishing in Kamchatka! Heaven!

Few years ago, my old friend and experienced angler, Giovanni, told me that he would love to fish here, on Kamchatka, on the surface of the water. He asked me to show him places where he could hunt for rainbow trout and char. I was not very surprised but still It was a little odd as most people would ask where to catch big salmon and many of them. I love surface fishing and Kamchatka was a perfect place for it, so I said to Giovanni, ‘Lets go!’ Practically, pacific salmon an

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Chavanga Autumn 2018. Week 06.10 - 15.10

The main issue of the second week of October was salmon activity. We believed that if water temperature will continue to decrease, a likewise decrease in salmon activity should be expected. This is such a direct relationship between temperature and fish activity, it is not always indisputable, but it is difficult for us to rely on something else in our forecasts. Indeed, with a sufficiently large amount of salmon in the river, our results could be assessed as average. We were

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Chavanga Autumn 2018. Week 29.09 - 06.10

On whole Kola Peninsula, from the first days of October, the temperature of air and water began to fall all over . First days of the week were still comfortable for fishing. Morning frosts were replaced by relatively warm sunny days with a water temperature of 5-6 degrees. The water level was stable high for Autumn standards. The behavior of fish has not changed. But the nights in October are already long and by the morning the water had cooled down to 4 degrees. Now, when ch

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Chavanga Autumn 2018. Week 22.09 - 29.09

Last week of September seemed to be no different from the previous one. Then storm broke out over the sea on south of Kola Peninsula, heavy rains and strong wind followed. Then it got cold. All the puddles in the morning were covered with ice, which disappeared only by the middle of the day. The water temperature dropped sharply to 5 degrees and water level in the river began to rise gradually. It was interesting how this will affect run of fresh salmon and its activity. Acc

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Chavanga Autumn 2019. Week 8.09 - 15.09

Second week of September was characterized by a very slow decrease in water temperature to 12 - 13 degrees. Only by the end of the week after several night frosts the water cooled to 11 degrees. Probably this chills caused some revival of fresh salmon in the river. It was hard to say how resident fish reacted to this water changes as we still catching many of them in most of the pools. We could not accurately assess the intensity of fish movement from the sea, but our recent

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Chavanga Autumn 2018. Week 01.09 - 08.09

We opened the Autumn season in the wake of an unusually hot and long dry summer. Such anomalous weather was observed not only in Europe but also affected the territory of the Kola Peninsula. Here, the weather also had broken records for the temperature and duration of the dry period. Therefore, we started the second part of our salmon fishing season with a legitimate concern for the state of the rivers and fish. In reality, the situation was not at all disastrous. The first o

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Chavanga river fishing report 15.06 - 21.06

This middle of June 2018 was already a summer over her on Kola Peninsula, few really hot days turned out only by the end of the third week. The water warmed up to 18 degrees, but quickly returned to a comfortable 16 degrees. The water level during those week was dropping constantly, but at the very close pace, so all of the days were comfortable for fishing. Grills weighing 2.5 - 3 kg have appeared in the river, as a rule, these are very lively males that just arrived from th

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Chavanga river fishing report 07.06 - 14.06

The ideal situation for the beginning of the season is fishing active fish in the winter holding pools. On some rivers of the Kola Peninsula this is a common practice. In the middle or upper parts of the rivers, large number of salmons gather in such pools to stay during the winter. Some camps are located near those places. The first weeks of the salmon fishing season, most fish are caught in those holding pools, often called as as aquarium, later the fish is spreading along

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Chavanga river fishing report 01.06 - 07.06

The beginning of salmon fishing season on the Kola Peninsula usually starts at the end of May. On the Chavanga river the season shifts sometimes for a week or two earlier but it happens once in two or three years. Usually the river is more or less accessible and comfortable to fly fishing at the end of May. The main question that arises when fly fishing salmon at this time - where is the fish? The choice of tackles or flies, in my opinion, is a secondary or even a matter of m

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Rod set up for Kamchatka fishing

Fishing season 2018 in Kamchatka is getting close and closer and i once again want to return to the question of the most appropriate gear and fishing techniques. Of course, we must understand that there are fish completely different in nature and size, therefore, i will talk about the tackles that will give you the most pleasure in fishing rainbow trout, but should cope with salmon and giant kunja (white-spotted char). Over the past 5 years of fishing in Kamchatka rivers I ha

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Kola river opens for season 2018!!!

Our fishing season on Kola Peninsula 2018 is here. Kola river looking good and promising. For some anglers all over the world this river still offer unforgetable experience chasing big fresh Atlantic salmon. June is 90% booked with some last rods available. This river will test your true salmon fly fishing skills. Unlike last year, weather conditions look very hopefull and we all hope it will be a season to remember. Our head guide Alex got his first Atlantic salmon of the se

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Which fly?

Unfortunately, this issue remains the most popular among fly fishermen. Perhaps every second angler planning a trip to the Kola Peninsula asks us about this. The question is logical, everything is correct, but i would like to point all the aspects in the logical chain of preparation for fishing salmon. And according to my understanding in this logical chain the question of the fly should be the last. Here is a photo from my old article about flies for salmon fishing, it will

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Why i lost my salmon?! How to land fish

This fall on the rivers of Kola Peninsula we lost an unusually large number of salmon. Two fish out of three went off the hook. We have already discussed salmon behaviour, but I want to draw your attention to the tactics of fighting salmon, on aspects that, in my opinion, could lead to loss of fish. I will focus only on regular situations often occurring and will not consider all possible options. Just want to say that we do not use boats or guides with giant nets, patiently

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How many salmon in the river. Salmon bite!

The principles of presentation / control over the fly when fishing salmon are no different from those when fishing other salmon species. In 90% of cases, we fish salmon by a method that is described as a wet fly method (we'll talk about the streamer and other methods separately). If you understand the principles of fishing trout or grayling on the wet fly, agree with me that these skills can be used when fishing salmon. Then the meaning of what I mean by the correct presentat

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The number of salmons and number of bites

Salmon bite is enough objective indication that there is salmon in the river. The more bites, the more fish in the river. Consequently, the smaller the number of bites, the less salmon in the water. Everything seems logical, but it only seems so. Fresh example from the Chavanga River: one fisherman per week has 65 bites, 36 salmon caught. Another angler at the same time period has only 5 bites, 2 salmon are caught. Are there many fish in the river or not? Is it possible

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How many salmon in the river. Evidence of attack

Other evidence of number of salmon in the river we can get already in the process of fishing. Still, most of the time we spend not observing jumping fish but in trying to catch it. We must take into account that counting fish bites is even more questionable way of estimating the numbers of fish than its jumps. But we have no other way, and sometimes it does happen that catching gives a fairly correct answer. Here you can underline 2 parts, one of which relates to our visual s

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Autumn season is over! Salmon fishing 2017

The Autumn season on the rivers Chavanga/Strelna is over. I want to remind you that the rivers of the Kola Peninsula that flowing into the white sea have an excellent autumn run of salmon. Some rivers has much higher autumn salmon population then the others and often this population is bigger that the spring and summer ones. It is very important to note that the conditions of the autumn run fish is often way better than of fish that run in the beginning of the season. For m

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Autumn season salmon fishing notes

After a few years with really unpredictable weather in May - June some of our guests turned their heads to Autumn fishing period. I can't say that Autumn period is better or more productive. September and October also occasionally surprise us with its weather conditions. We remember extremely early winter in 2014, when ice appeared on the river in early October. Salmon run and its activity heavily depend on water level and temperature. But as for me, salmon run in Autumn is w

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Kamchatka fishing options!

We have an amazing opportunity to fish Icha river in Kamchatka in August and beginning of September. This period is very special in Kamchatka fishing as end of summer usually the best time to fish many species. Stable weather, comfortable river conditions and improving fishing activity of salmon and of course wild rainbow trout and chars. It would be very useful and interesting for us to know your opinion and thoughts about fishing these species. Here are some interesting fi

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Salmon fishing, Chavanga river, Kola Peninsula.

Early spring at the mid of June. So the end of May and the beggining of June were characterised by: 1. High water level 2. Low water temperature 3. Low salmon activity 4. Few fishing pool available 5. Few fresh fish in the river 6. Most of the fish caught were Autumn fish (Osenka) Most productive pools were calm deep places that were covered from the main stream by big curves or massive boulders in the river. Attempts to fish in the main stre

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