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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2009, 12:34:25 PM »
you're not seeing the correct picture.

the big ones are huge. the average ones are not extremely huge.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey5xDsHMSyg&feature=related[/youtube]
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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #16 on: March 18, 2009, 12:35:26 PM »
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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #17 on: March 18, 2009, 12:36:08 PM »
I'll see if I can find any of the magazines.  Maybe my memory is hazy...
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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #18 on: March 18, 2009, 12:36:46 PM »
giant carniverous fish on the fly in one of the earth's most beautiful places...

what could be better?
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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #19 on: March 18, 2009, 12:37:47 PM »
Hmm, ok.  I guess I can see that.  They are a decent size.  Ya'll eat em too, or what?
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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #20 on: March 18, 2009, 12:38:31 PM »
I'll check my back copies of Flyfisherman.  Seems I remember a picture of a guy casting upstream to one that was over 8 feet long.  Like I said, maybe my memory is hazy...
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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #21 on: March 18, 2009, 12:42:38 PM »
scroll back up a ways and look at the youtube vid i posted...there's some trucks in there.
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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #22 on: March 18, 2009, 12:44:54 PM »
It would be like fishing for kings with lemmings, and the biggest kings we know of, like the Kenai strain, where the 70 pounders are some of the small ones.  Seems to me, a 9 weight fly rod with a huge mouse pattern dipped in blood, would be a BLAST. LOL

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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #23 on: March 18, 2009, 01:11:04 PM »
I remember that article too Pathfinder101.  I don't remember which mag, I think it was about 4 years ago, but I do remember monster fish.  Should we start planning a hunt-wa Far East side rendezvous 2010?  Anyone know how much fuel and how long it would take the 10hp to push the driftboat across the Pacific?

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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #24 on: March 18, 2009, 01:11:51 PM »
We can borrow the aqua loggers barge since he might not be needing it now.

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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #25 on: March 18, 2009, 01:15:00 PM »
We can borrow the aqua loggers barge since he might not be needing it now.

Lol.  :IBCOOL:
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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #26 on: March 18, 2009, 01:23:45 PM »
I remember that article too Pathfinder101.  I don't remember which mag, I think it was about 4 years ago, but I do remember monster fish.  Should we start planning a hunt-wa Far East side rendezvous 2010?  Anyone know how much fuel and how long it would take the 10hp to push the driftboat across the Pacific?

Not much fuel if we cross Mongol/Native American style up by the Berring Straits.  Probably pick up a couple of guides on the way down...  If I remember right, you bascially go for a week and hope to catch one fish.  Get up on the high ground and spot and stalk...
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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #27 on: March 18, 2009, 01:28:00 PM »
giant carniverous fish on the fly in one of the earth's most beautiful places...

what could be better?


you left out watchin em eat your fly as you swing it past their beak  :rockin:

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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #28 on: March 18, 2009, 01:56:41 PM »
I fished the Frying Pan River in Colorado a few years ago beneath the Ruedi Dam.  HUGE rainbows on tiny mysis shrimp.  Same type of deal; spot from above and stalk, then cast over and over and over until you get a take.  I fished 6 hours and got one take from a fish that I am guessing was around 10 lbs.  I was so suprised when he finally went for it I pulled the fly right out of his $#@!ing mouth :bash: :bash: :bash:

That was it.  6 hours.  One take. :'(
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Re: Taimen in Mongolia
« Reply #29 on: March 18, 2009, 02:33:21 PM »
 Why you use a ground squirrel..

 


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