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Fishing was as good as it gets for Trout, Salmon (Coho and Chum) and Char (Dolly and Siberian White Spotted). Trout fishing is catch and release. We were asked to measure length and girth when possible. Not many were measured because of the difficulty of safely handling these large, aggressive brutes, most were released in deep water without handling. Of those we were able to put on the tape the largest was 32" long with a 22" girth, my largest was 30" with a 19" girth. It is interesting to note that there are no steelhead in this system. When you have an environment that permits resident rainbows to get as large as steelhead why bother with the ocean journey ? Small thumbnail images can be
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Day #1 "Grin & Bear It"..we head down river, other boats head up. See
sow and cubs with-in minutes, first of many bear that day. Saw more bear
than large rainbow. Caught char at will, several large chum, lost two 25"+
bows. Weather is sunny. |
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to papa. Six inch string leaches were the preferred pattern for trout
and salmon. Also had fun with large mouse patterns. Once tried a #14 Adams
for fun, after 12 casts and 12 Dolly's I returned to the leech. |
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Sea Eagle: Everything in Russia is bigger, planes, trucks and eagles!
Fished with this guy every day. |
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Char were abundant |
Time to boogie...Mom notices me |
