This youtube video shows a Belgian angler landing a Taimen from the Shishged River in Northern Mongolia. The Taimen was released, but not before it had been dragged up the bank and rolled in the sand and silt. This video has generated a number of comments highly critical of the angler.

Taimen video clip on youtube by National Geographic. ” The taimen is the largest member of the salmonid family, which also includes trout and salmon. These fish are fierce predators that sometimes chase their prey in packs, a practice that earned them the nickname “river wolves.” They have gray-green heads with streamlined, reddish-brown bodies. And they can be enormous, with particularly large specimens reaching six feet (two meters) long.”