Ok back to fishing! We hooked good numbers of King's but....... the landing percentage was not so high maybe 10% we managed to get to the net! But we have seen some big fish jump on the end of our lines well over 40 pound's. But that is fishing! I am waiting for some pictures of our clients that we can post on our blog! I can tell you it is well worth waiting for!
June 20, 2011
The King's are here!!!
After our great trip to Russia a had 1 day to recover from all the vodka and beer. But Guiding season has started for my favourite fish on the spey rod the king! This time of the year is always a special time for me, it is the time my adrenalin starts flowing, broken rods, lines reels and lots of frustration! But the reward..... that 40 inch plus chrome leaping in the air ripping line of your reel faster then you can blink with you eye's! In one word incredible! And for me it is almost like doing drugs, really it is that addictive! I think a need my medicine again.
June 9, 2011
Russia part 6.
Lon with his fish of a life time!
Fishing a tail out on the Kola river!
Andre is doing battle with a kola giant, that he looses after a run down river!
Russia part 5.
Re-living the catch of that day.
High water in the Kola river! Not the easiest conditions to catch Salmon.
Varzuga at 3:00 am The mid night sun.
Russia part 4.
Getting ready for the Varzuga river.
My second kola fish.
Fighting salmon in deep water is alway's special!
Russia part 3.
Jaap Kalkman, Guideline pro with a chubby 20 pounder.
Jaap's second 20 pounder!
Having dinner and to much Vodka and beer.
June 8, 2011
We are back!
Lon Volberding with a well deserved Atlantic salmon!
Dave wilder with his fish of a life time! yes dream can come true!
And my biggest one of the trip and personal best! Man i am happy!!!!!!!!!!!Yes we are back from the Kola river from Russia!
We had a great trip! Our guest where, Lon volberding from Seatlle, Richard Davidson from Seatlle, The one and only Bob Meiser!, Jaap Kalkman from Smithers BC Canada, Andre de Wit from the Netherlands, my good friend Dave Wilder from Washington and my self.
We had some tough conditions because the river was very high due run off. It was the first week of June what is always a tricky week to book. But that means you also have the chance to hook into a monster or a real fish of a life time!
We did well. We hooked 12 fish and landed only 7 most of them with sea lice with 6 rods! If you think this is a poor result you have not been fishing the Kola river, or BIG Atlantic salmon. The Kola river is not a numbers river but a river that host the worlds biggest Atlantic salmon! And you have a real shot of hooking into big fish. But it is not a easy river! If you think steelheading is tough then don't fish the kola in the first week of June!
Bob Meiser lost the biggest fish of the trip! It was a 40 pound Atlantic salmon that he lost by the beach! It was played out after 25 minutes and ready to be netted when the single hooked popped out! So Bob will be back next year to take revenge! Now it is personal!
Lon Volberding landed the biggest one of the trip a whopping 30 pound plus Atlantic salmon.
We still have to do the accurate calculations for all the weights, but we have all messurements!
So i can give you the real weights soon! But who cares! Have a look at the first 3 fish! We will show the same fish again later this week in a different pose because they are so beauty full! ha
We also fished the Varzuga river for 2 day's for some smaller Atlantic salmons. We landed roughly 20 of them in the 6 to 8 pound range. It was a blast on a 6 weight spey rod and a hardy st george!
Soon the rest of the story and pics!
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