Fish Mongolia

A few more choice excerpts from Dan Cook’s blog on the Mongolia section of his Fly Fishing Around the Globe odyssey. Fly fishing for taimen in the mid-summer, when water temperatures rise, and the river is low and crystal clear means a few changes in tactics….

AEG’s Fish Bum’s weren’t our only special guests last season. In June Dan Cook and Heidi visited us at our spring Taimen camp on the Delger. Here’s what Dan had to say: “The fishing has been great, by the way. We have set up camp along a picturesque section of the Delgermoron. This river rivals any of the famous blue ribbon rivers in the U.S. in both productivity and beauty.”

Looking back through our photos I found a few more good ones from 2006. Here’s a slideshow with photos from Mark Hutchinson of Untamed Tracks. Mark is our agent in Australia; he’s also a videographer, TV presenter and producer. Try this link for Untamed Tracks Mongolia Taimen Fly Fishing page.

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Back in ‘06 we hosted our friends Alberto Salvini and Marica Cicoria, aka The Italians, at our camp in Northern Mongolia while filming two episodes of their Italian fly-fishing TV series Pescavventura. Despite Mongolia’s worst summer floods for years Alberto and Marica managed to catch plenty of Taimen on film. Here’s [...]

On September 9th, a group of 3 Austrian’s passed our camps on the Delgermoron. Surprised to see other anglers on the river we had a brief chat on the shore and ascertained they were fishery researchers with the correct science permits to conduct this work. We wished them well on their journey, re-assured the local [...]