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Giant Hucho taimen tour

Common information Fish population is an mixture of Siberian, Amur and the Pacific fish. Taimen, siberian trouts - lenoks and two species of pikes - Lena, Amur pike, Hadar and Amur grayling are the most interesting for sport fishing. Pacific salmon - chum and pink salmon come, coho and sockeye salmon too. There is also a char-Malma. Tugur - a special river, unique river , it is probably the best for biggest Hucho taimen all over the world. River is well protec

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The main issue for salmon fishing in Russia. Where to sleep, what to eat?

Fishermen who plan to arrive to Kola peninsula for the first time, usually ask questions on where to live, what to eat. I understand their fears. Russia is a far and terrible country. On the other hand advantage of many expensive camps in the Russian north is the arranged life. Presence of good kitchen and white napkins is discussed at forums and video films more often, than fishing. Distinctive feature of our programs of salmon fishing in Russia is presence of discovery el

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Common mistakes when fishing salmon on the Kola river

Kola river can not be attributed to simple rivers for fishing. It is quite large, especially at the beginning of the season when the water melts after the snow . The river bed is also quite varied. Along with large stretches there are a number of sites with fast current. The bottom of the river is lined with large boulders which often form a big difference in the depths. That is, the river is complicated enough for fly fishing, you need to know exactly where to enter the rive

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Salmon fishing in a cold water. Chavanga autumn 2013

I want to tell you about an interesting evolution of the activity of the salmon , which I had seen in a week on the river Chavan'ga in early October this year. I have already said that this season has been one of the driest in the last 10 years. Repeated, though not to the same extent , the drought of 2011. Rain, which could affect the level of water in rivers, was not the end of May . Marshes, which are densely covered tundra were dry. The water level in the lakes , buyout l

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Kola river salmon fishing, some details

River Kola is interesting for anglers who want to catch a big salmon. Indeed, for many years the river gives us that opportunity. Despite the proximity of Murmansk and other settlements in the Kola River there are enough big fish. We must realize that, contrary to naive advertising is not easy to catch a really big fish. 'll Need all your skill and the help of our guides. We are pleased to inform you that in addition to the possibility of meeting with a large salmon, we can

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Taimen fishing. Giant fish. Tugur river. Habarovsk region.

Habarovsk region of Russia is sparsely populated, remote area. The largest rivers (Uda and Tugur) proceed on boggy valleys and have close to flat character. On the contrary, many of their inflows present mountain rivers. Bichy river is smaller, convenient for flyfishing. In Uda and Tugur till now a lot of large Siberian taimen. Uniqueness of these taimen consists that it can eat numerous here a Siberian salmon. The forage abundance allows a predator to reach the huge sizes. T

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Salmon fishing in Russia. What I think of fishing salmon. Parts 1 - 2 - 3 and 4

I put my spinning aside in 1986 and tried salmon fly fishing. I was very interested in the types of salmon flies by that time. It wasn’t a secret for the anglers that salmons are omnivores. It grabs the spinners, wobblers, willingly eats worms and picks up things quite inedible. Most of the baits imitates nothing similar to actual nature livings and were never seen before by the fish. So, is there any sense in using different variety of baits if salmon eat everything that goe

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Big trout fishing. One program - salmon and big trout tour. Strelna river

Salmon and trout fishing in Russia. Strelna river. Till now I deliberately did not concern one more important theme. The river is ideally suited for hunting for a large trout. I know that many fishers specially search for the information on places where it is possible to catch trophy trout. On Chavanga, for example, there is a large trout. In good year with successful winter and an ice drift, in the beginning of June it is possible to come specially for catching of large fish

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Non traditional salmon fishing

Non traditional methods. Last of 10 years me are carried away by catching of a salmon on flies which usually do not carry to the salmon. First of all flies of the small sizes, in the second it often imitating flies, wet flies, nymphs. In the third, catching to these flies is interesting to me by methods. Last years I collect a material on catching of a salmon on dry imitations of mayflies and sedges. If you have an information on this theme - please, share it. Completely il

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Autumn salmon fishing in Russia. Kola peninsula. Little summary of Chavanga & Strelna fishing to

Salmon fishing in Russia. Autumn - the best time for catching of a salmon! For me always was a riddle why some my colleagues obstinately try to start at the beginning of a season, the end of May and the beginning of June. I assume that they are entered into error by catching practice on the rivers of pool of Barents sea where stand super expensive camps stand and advertising foam is carried worldwide. On Terski coast of Kola peninsula, on the rivers of the White sea, beginn

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Best season of salmon fishing. Chavanga autumn

The autumn is considered one of the most interesting periods in catching of a salmon. The autumn is characterised by two main lines. The First - in the middle of September begins spawning of a salmon. The second - new mass lifting of a sea salmon begins. Spawning of a salmon can begin from first week of September depending on water temperature and proceed to the middle of October. So was this year, at water temperature in 6-7 degrees spawning has begun. Places for spawning

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Hucho taimen fishing. Part 3

Fishing tour for siberian taimen Taimen fishing program here: http://blog.chavanga.com/2013/11/giant-hucho-taimen-program.html In comparison with a bait for a spinning the fly loses in mobility. Therefore for flyfisherman there is absolutely other problem. It is not necessary to work on the areas, too much time leaves. It is necessary to choose the best, most perspective points for fishing. These are places where taimen is fed, instead of has a rest, we search and cau

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Different view on salmon fishing

There is one standard statement with which I cannot agree. It is considered that the Atlantic salmon does not eat in fresh water. Many do not understand the reasons forcing this fish to attack in the rivers every possible baits - flies, wobblers, metal lures, worms, pieces of pipes with hooks both other edible and inedible objects. Certainly, I will not begin to declare that fishes eat natural food always and everywhere. The fisher who cleans salmons, usually does not look at

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Hucho taimen. Part 1. Habarovsk region, Russia

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Humpback salmon is our friend!

The Atlantic salmon, certainly, has a priority on Kola peninsula. But after all ther is a big interest in fishing trout and grayling. Sea trout fishing in estuary, in a tidal zone became superpopular. For many now it is fishing №1. And the humpback salmon - gorbusha is still pushed on a background. But after all it is the most beautiful fish! In struggle on a hook it simply mad and such sprinters are not present at us more. The humpback salmon can break all records on breakag

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Fishing technique. A quick view on salmon and trout fishing

Fishing technique. A quick view on salmon and trout fishing. Here are you can see some fish from Chavanga (Vasil photo) and top Varzina (Alex photo) rivers. There are short description of popular fishing technique using for salmon and trout on the both banks of Kola Peninsula. Interest of fishes to objects on a surface - history old and peculiar not only to the rivers of the north of Kola Peninsula. Bomber it is known in fly-fishing as a variant of superficial bait. The sam

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With the fly rod in the Kola Peninsula

Kola autumn - Horses, bears and fly-fishing With the fly rod in the Kola Peninsula By Mindaugas Banelis September, while sizzling my lard on the Turkish beach and sipping Efes Pilsen, I was thinking about the fact that I had already fulfilled one of the annual duties of a father and husband - having had a family holiday “in the South”. So it was high time to take care of the truly manly rest, which is fishing somewhere in the North. The ta

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Nymph salmon fishing

In most cases, we catch a salmon equally, a method of a classical wet fly, we throw downwards and across, selecting further speed, a direction and depth. The method of a wet fly in all variants is productive enough. "The salmon" fly in usual, habitual execution, was created just for such technics. But… This June on Chavange some hot days have warmed up water unusually early, the River remained as in spring high and rather turbid from an impurity of peat from the overflowed bo

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W Krolestwie Lososia. Salmon fishing in Russia

www.rybolownia.pl W Krolestwie Lososia Salmon kingdom of the Chavanga. Jest rok 2001 Jedziemy na ryby na Lofoty. Sześć osób w busie – nie jest źle, niektórzy nawet mogą wyprostować nogi. Przed nami jeszcze jakieś 30 godzin jazdy... Aby skrócić cierpienia podróży, organizator puszcza film nakręcony na zupełnie innej wyprawie przez zupełnie innych ludzi. Ma to być przestroga dla tych, którzy narzekają. Tam też kilku wędkarzy jedzie na ryby do Rosji i przez Rosję, bus ciaśniejsz

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