Fish Mongolia

Over the years I’ve developed my own taimen flies for fly-fishing in Mongolia, and I’ve collected and adapted fly patterns from friends and fellow taimen guides. I now have a range of flies to use in different situations; buoyant and aggressive top water patterns, prey fish imitations, smaller flies to use on lighter weight [...]

A couple of years ago we began exploring an overlooked and inaccesible river system in a remote corner of Mongolia. Two spectacularly successful exploratory expeditions, in spring and fall of 2007, exceeded our wildest hopes: abundant Taimen, big Taimen, small Taimen, Taimen in skinny streams, Taimen in big holes, Taimen eating Lenok, Taimen attacking Taimen, [...]

Here’s the link to Yoshi’s Taimen photos on picassaYoshinobu Toide’s Mongolia Taimen Fishing Photos
Yoshi now holds our record for fly-caught taimen with the 150.5cm Taimen he caught this September. Thats just under 60 inches. We think the same fish had taken a look at Tom Gorman’s presentation the week previously, but declined his [...]

I’ve posted a selection of James Schaefer’s Mongolia trip photos over on picassa. Heres the link:Taimen Fly fishing Float Trip Mongolia Sep07
As I previously reported in our post on this year’s taimen records , James had an outstanding week with five taimen on the first day, and a 140cm Taimen mid-trip: he also [...]

It’s been an outstanding season for records at Fish Mongolia this year. Our previous record Taimen on the fly was caught right in front of camp in September 2006 by Sam Wakerley on his second Taimen fly-fishing trip with us; this Taimen was estimated at around 54 inches (137cm).

Sam Wakerley with 54 inch Taimen, [...]