RUSSIA: Umba report from Kola peninsula

A salmon fishing report for Umba river in Kola Peninsula in Norther Russia from Salmonjunkies: "With only 2 weeks left of the season in Umba, we can conclude that this autumn has been very generous to our all our many wonderful and loyal guests. Almost every evening during September we celebrated new members in our Twenty Pounds club. What a great seasonUnfortunately our first August weeks was

RUSSIA: taimen and amur pike

Here some interesting images of the biggest taimen (Huco Taimen) and amur pike recently caught in the East Russia.

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RUSSIA: Varzina river salmon fishing report

On the last week at Varzina Main Lodge was marked by suddenly good run of summer run big Atlantic salmon. After some very hard fishing weeks Varzina river has finally presented us a really good fishing that we usually observe during this time in normal year. Unfortunately, there were no big samples, maximum size was only 8 kilos. The majority of fish was 4.5 to 6 kilo summer run salmon and

RUSSIA: Varzuga annual report

On Varzuga river in Russia the 2012 season is ended with a staggering 8,500 salmon in just 6 weeks!!
Here a short report from "Rxtons'":
"The season on the this Russian river will go down as one of the very best in the 20 years that we have been running the programme. It did not start as hoped, however. Our main aim is to have rods on the river about 6-7 days after the ice has broken and

RUSSIA: Kola Peninsula Umba River season report

Looking back on Umba 2011, the weekly number of big salmon logged in the books was really high and clearly indicates that we are on the right track with our long termed conservation plans for Umba. Our June weeks turned out really good both in numbers and size, and many of our guests managed to land there magic Twenty pounder Salmon.
In the six-week period from mid August until first of October