Beautiful Fish - Taimen and Lenok

Alt-blunt-nose lenok The images of different taimen and lenok species

Beautiful fish - Pacific salmon

Alt-cherry salmon dwarf Different species of Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus — silver and spawning fish

Beautiful fish - rainbow trout

Alt-rainbow trout Different forms of the rainbow trout

Beautiful fish - brown trout

Alt-brown trout Images of salmon and trout, genus Salmo

Holey Head Flies

Alt-tinhead flies Siberia nymph Holey Head These flies are very popular among the fishermen of the Eastern Siberia and Far East, and in other regions of Russia not many people know what it is about. Here you could find out how to make your own «tinheads» — Holey Head flies.

Kopylie River, Kamchatka

Alt-Kamchatka Kopylie Icha Kopylie River is a 90-km long high-gradient stream, which is flowing through the valleys of the Central-Kamchatka Ridge, the spine of the peninsula. Kopylie is one of the sources of the Icha River, flowing to the west, into the Sea of Okhotsk. Icha is one of the major rivers of the western coast of Kamchatka. In the Icha there are 6 species of Pacific salmon, 2 species of charr, and resident rainbow trout. Steelhead is also present in the drainage, but quite rare.

Amur River Walleye?

Alt-Amur River walleye zander In the Amur River there are 135 fish species. Is there the walleye here?

Bystraya R., Kamchatka, Sep 2011

Alt-Kamchatka Bystraya There are many rivers named Bystraya (swift) in Kamchatka. This particular Bystraya River is the main source of the Bolshaya River, flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk. The river is 275 km long; it is rated 3 because of a series of the falls in its lower part, downstream from the Malki village

Antiwobbler 2

Alt-Antiwobbler wobbler-fly The second part of the note on the new type of the flies with a blade – Antiwobblers.

Antiwobbler 1

Alt-Antiwobbler When I was starting to work with the wobbler-flies (see the post dated January 12, 2012), I had made several ones with a blade put «wrong way» — directed to the water surface. What did I want to get? Just a new type of a heavier-than-water surface skater. When I was testing these new flies in the water, some of them were showing much more complicated behavior than just coming to the surface and then skimming.