Ul River, Lower Amur

Floating the Ul River - lots of big and small log jams. I have never seen a river with so many dead trees - we had to pass literally hundreds of them. I am glad the boat was chosen correctly - on any other boat the route will be much more difficult and dangerous. It is also good that we have taken bare minimum of the gear.

Log jams are efficiently guarding the fish from the fishermen

A small taimen

Flooded forest

Trophy taimen

The Lower-Amur grayling; the yellow-spotted grayling in not found here

Steller’s sea eagle

Flathead asp

The only 3 km long stretch of the river with no logs

We are going here - all other channels are blocked by the trees

Nowhere to go…

Finally! It is the Japi River; the Orel Lake is not far

The pikes in the Japi are skinny and hungry