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Video showing underwater footage of spawning taimen by Manu Esteve. Filmed at the Eg-Uur Taimen Science camp

Sweetwater Travel and the Vermillion brothers can lay claim to being the pioneers of taimen fly fishing operations in Mongolia. This photo of Dan Vermillion fighting a 60 inch taimen on their first exploratory trip is the image that launched both Sweetwater Travel and Mongolia as a fly fishing destination.

Canoe and fly fishing expedition on Mongolia’s Eg River, report by Aishpanu in French. If you are interested in doing this trip we have canoes and rafts available for hire, and can arrange the official Taimen permits from the Ministry Of Environment for excellent sections of the Eg River. Ask about our trip planning service.

Here’s a link to an article on a Mongolia fly fishing expedition with Peter Mullet of Mongofly, amongst the team were Mikey Wier of Burl Productions, Brent Dawson of Warpath Flies, and Jeff Currier. “Our main quarry were taimen, basically the worlds largest trout. These beauties don’t come easy and we as a 6 person group landed about 45 of them in 3 weeks. Many of them topped 40″! Mikey Weir landed one of 50″!”

One of our favorite fly fishing set ups in Mongolia is fishing a hopper dropper rig for lenok, grayling and Taimen. With this you have the chance to catch lenok and grayling all day long, and even taimen are often tempted by the hopper.

Four fishing guides from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, depart on a journey around the world to northern Mongolia, in search of the native fish known as the Taimen. After more than a week of travel they finally reach their destination, and cast their flies for this unique salmonid. A relative of the trout, it can live to be over thirty years old and reach lengths in excess of 60 inches.

The String Thing is an awesome steelhead fly and worth swinging for Taimen. Try it in olive, black or purple. Link: Pretty in Pink on Way Upstream

This web site began as a concept for the Association of Mongolia Angling Guides which was to be an alliance of fly fishing outfitters. Some how the concept never took root as an organization, but there are a handful of responsible fly fishing outfitters, such as Fish Mongolia, and Mongolia River Outfitters applying these principles to their fly fishing eco-tourism businesses. Here’s what we wrote back in 2005.

Back in November I asked whether or not I should publish some of our taimen fly patterns, the response was “Do it!”. My reasoning behind this is in the original post Taimen Flies . Here’s a selection of Alberto Salvini’s favorite patterns for a start.

Word is out that editing of AEG’s film Fish Bum I: Mongolia is complete, and the DVD is ready for release. You can order a copy at www.aegmedia.com . AEG put together a preview of the film, which is the result of a two month expedition to Mongolia in 2007 and over 200 [...]