Both Fish Mongolia and Sweetwater Travel are featured on National Geographic’s Hooked episode ‘Monster Fish of Mongolia’ with Zeb Hogan. “Aquatic ecologist Zeb Hogan continues his quest to find and protect the worlds largest freshwater fish in the frigid rivers of Mongolia. He will travel by plane, truck, and horseback to find the largest trout known as the Hucho taimen”

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.”

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

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.

What we’ve all been waiting for. From the crew who bought you the Trout Bum Diaries: Mongolia River Wolf, will be launched at the Fly Fishing Film Tour this month. We spent three weeks sleeping in the dirt on location with the Fish Bum crew last Fall laying on local logistics including trucks, horses and [...]