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Travel in Mongolia – road trip to the fishing spots

Mongolia, Taimen & Trout

Main photo: The scenery in Mongolia can take your breath away.

Outer Mongolia is a country with its own unique characteristics and offers many interesting sights to behold. If you are a sightseeing photography buff you can expect to have a field day.

Fishing here is wonderful and traveling through Mongolia in itself is an adventure. Here are some sights that I’d like to share with you. Click to enlarge images.

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Rising moon as we head to our destination.

Traveling by road offers its own unique advantages as you can see a whole load more of the country and its people. You get to stop at interesting places too along the way.

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Blue skies are common in Mongolia and in this scene snow capped mountains in the background adds a stunning contrast to the scenery. [Read more…] about Travel in Mongolia – road trip to the fishing spots

Is Mongolia the Trout and Fly-Fishing Capital of Asia?

Mongolia, Taimen & Trout

Twenty plus fish per fly fisher per day! – Nick

That is darn good fishing by any standards. Throw-in the fact that you are fishing the same waters where the biggest trout in the world lurks (the mighty taimen) it really must get into ones bucket list.

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Lenok trout can be abundant. It appears a hucho taimen has taken a swipe at this lenok.

Other species to temp anglers in the Mongolian rivers include the endemic amur trout, siberian pike, grayling, asp and lenok. Enjoy the following photos from a recent trip.

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A marmot being prepared for lunch

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The mighty Taimen, mega fish of the Mongolian rivers

Mongolia, Taimen & Trout

The taimen is the largest member of the salmonid family, which also includes trout and salmon. Taimen, also called giant Eurasian trout, is also known as Siberian taimen and Siberian salmon.

LARGEST OF THE TROUT SPECIES IN THE WORLD.

Now only found in the remote corner of Northern Mongolia, Hucho Taimen is known to the Chinese as “the river god’s daughter” it is a ferocious and even canibalistic predator growing to more than six feet (up to two meters) in length and can weigh up to 200 pounds or 91 kilograms.

But like many magnificent freshwater giants around the world, the taimen’s existence is now threatened.

Zeb Hogan of The Megafishes Project, along with National Geographic, continues his quest to find and protect the world’s largest freshwater fish in the frigid rivers of Mongolia – the Taimen.

Contact us here for more information about fishing in Mongolia for taimen.