A trip to the Lower Amur

Ripe bird-cherry

Dwarf male of cherry salmon. This salmon is rather rare in the Amur.

Flathead asp is common in the lower parts of the cold rivers

In September the summer form of chum salmon is finishing the spawning

Sharp-nose lenok is found in strong current, below the riffles

Good size blunt-nose lenok; this fish is also named Siberian trout. In the Lower Amur this fish could be big - up to 10-11 kg.

I was lucky to have a bite of good size taimen (140 cm, 25 kg). The tackle: 6-7 wt rod, sinking line, 15 pt tippet, and size 6 fly. The landing took half an hour.

Taimen was caught with a size 6 yellow wobbler-fly about 6 cm long

In the lower parts of the rivers it is possible to catch big Amur pike

Fat goldfish is numerous in the lowland areas