![]() Taimen are big strong fish with very powerful jaws. That big, angry and very frustrated taimen will frequently come right back around and absolutely hammer your fly on the second, third or even fourth try. If you miss the first strike, slam the fly right back on the water. The trick is to keep stripping until you feel the weight of the fish, then set the hook. On witnessing this impressive smash and grab many anglers pull too soon and miss the hook up. ![]() Taimen will absolutely explode on the fly, often coming completely out of the water on the strike. There is something spectacular about watching a massive taimen crush a surface fly. That means taimen will aggressively – and we do mean aggressively – attack surface flies. A surprising amount of their diet is composed of ducklings, gophers, and mice. However, taimen regularly feed on the surface. Taimen definitely take well-presented streamers. It also means we cover a lot of water looking for taimen. This makes conservation of vast stretches of water vitally important. An adult taimen may use 60 miles (100km) of river each year to access spawning, feeding, and winter habitats. Taimen are spread out and moving around constantly. Of course, meter long taimen aren’t lurking behind every boulder. They are actively eating and intimidating anything that gets in their wa y. These massive trout aren’t waiting for anything. Those salty fish can be taunted into eating, but taimen are giant apex predators that live in the river their entire lives. Other big salmonids feed primarily in the ocean and then lurk in freshwater waiting to spawn. If one enjoys the challenge of interacting with extremely big trout in beautiful places, there’s absolutely nothing more fascinating than fly-fishing for taimen. A fish this big could be fifty years old. Every season, we catch and very carefully release a handful of fish that measure between 50 and sixty inches (1.25 – 1.5 m). We catch/release many taimen over 40 inches (1m). In this river, m ost taimen to the fly measure between 30 – 40 inches (.75 – 1 meter). We have years of meticulous data on all fish caught and released. Please send us an email or call to chat about details anytime. Visit our conservation page if you’re interested in reading about the status of Mongolia’s taimen and the efforts of our globally renowned conservation partnership. Keep reading below to learn more about fly-fishing for taimen. O ur guests catch and safely release hundreds of taimen each season. This river has one of the world’s most robust taimen populations. We want these amazing fish to survive for at least a few more millennium. Together with our international anglers and local conservation partners, we work hard to make certain these rivers remain wild. Mongolia’s last healthy taimen populations survive only in a few remote places like the rivers where we fish. Now, in the blink of an epochal eye, h arvest and habitat destruction have erased taimen from most Mongolian rivers. For more than forty-million years, t hese magnificent fish inhabited nearly all of Mongolia’s northern rivers. Taimen are the world’s largest salmonid and one of the oldest species on earth.
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