The AEG (Angling Exploration Group) guys are at it again! They are working on the third installment of the their Trout Bum Diaries video series. They are not headed to some ‘out-of-the-way’ north country stream. No Sir. They are trekking their way into Mongolia in search of the ‘River Wolf’ - the Taimen fish species. A portion of their press release explains it best,

…”It’s only been in the last couple of years that Mongolia has come into the scope of the average fly fisherman. Taimen seem to be the big buzz word lately, a legendary game fish that grows to monstrous proportions in the Mongolian equivalent of trout streams. These voracious predators have been known to attack ducks, lemmings, prairie dogs, mouse patterns and anything else they can get their jaws on … Taimen represent one of the last survivors of an ancient strain of salmonids whose genetic code helped establish the current salmon and trout populations around the world. The largest recorded taimen was caught in Siberia in a commercial net and weighed over 230 pounds. The taimen in these Mongolian headwater systems are generally smaller than their sea-run brethren found in eastern Russia. However, these headwaters represent some of the last remaining healthy concentrations of taimen populations in the world. While they average 30 inches and ten pounds here, monsters of up to 62 inches have been caught on dry flies. Mongolians traditionally don’t harvest fish and their rivers are considered sacred so these populations have stayed relatively healthy.”…

The Taimen (As seen on wikipedia)

You can follow their journey on the special blog they have created. Click here to visit their journal of their ongoing adventures.

They are also putting together podcasts for those of us who ‘Can’t Get Enough’! Click here for those podcasts.

Stay safe guys. Next time take me along. I would be happy to try and translate for you!