Vladimir Rybalchenko's Address to the Friends of the Atlantic Salmon Reserve |
 | Dear Friends,
Probably you know already about an important event that took place in the ASR. On 16th June, it was announced at Kharlovka that Peter Power has handed over his camps, famous throughout the world, to me, Vladimir Rybalchenko. It was not a simple decision for me to undertake this responsibility of securing the future of the ASR. more........ | |
SECURING THE ASR FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS |
 | An important event took place on the evening of Thursday 16th June. All guests and staff received an unexpected but exciting invitation from Peter to join him for a party at Kharlovka House. Guests were told that he had something to tell them about "…the future of the ASR".............. more........ | |
Rynda News report for week 11 ending Friday, 12-August-11 |
 | It was a truly international and diverse group of anglers that gathered in Rynda in the second week of August: Fly-fishing experts from England, Denmark, Sweden and Norway came to fish along with guests from Russia and Germany. Peter from Sweden, who had been fishing the Kharlovka in earlier years, came to introduce his two teenage sons into fly fishing like in the epic movie "A River Runs Through". more........ | |
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Rynda News report for week 10 ending Friday, 5-August-11 |
 | Finally, we were back at the beautiful Rynda river -Team Sweden (all Rynda rookies) - Michael, Åke, Hans-Olov, Magnus joined together with the boys from the UK - all previous Rynda veterans. After a quick lunch we had our usual warm up session on Saturday evening and found the river conditions to be quite tough with very low water levels. more........ | |
Rynda News report for week 9 ending Friday, 29-July-11 |
 | Last week the crazy northern weather started out rainy and very windy for our old friends from England and Germany - who along with some new Russian fly fishermen had all come together to enjoy the wonderful Rynda. Although the dark cloudy sky didn't look too friendly to start, nothing was going to spoil the fishermen's good moods. Cheerful and loud, the guests gathered outside the lodge anxiously waiting to be helicoptered to theirs beats. more........ | |
Rynda News for week 8 ending Friday 22-July-11 |
 | Last Saturday we waved good-bye to the Mills group who have been regulars for the last 12 seasons and then just a few hours later we were greeting our next bunch of old friends - most of the them had also been coming to the Rynda many times before. Stepping off the helicopter they just looked around in excitement to meet the eyes of their old friends. more........ | |
Rynda News for week 7 ending Friday 15-July-11 |
 | Last Saturday our latest group of enthusiastic fishermen got off the helicopter searching for their sunglasses as they embraced the friendly Rynda staff who they hadn't seen since this same time last year. Arriving to 27 degrees C in the shade they unbuttoned their shirts and headed straight into the lodge for some cold drinks. The guests listened attentively to Peter as he picked up a banana and delivered his patented safety speech. .......... more........ |
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Rynda news report for week 6 ending Friday 8-July-11 |
 | Despite the poor conditions and weather delays last weekend our latest group arrived to the Rynda camp last Saturday in high spirits. They were extremely glad to see each other as well as the camp staff again as almost all of them were old friends of many years. This is a special 'veteran' group, some of whom have been returning to Rynda since 1993! There were two new Russian faces - Alexander (who fished here before) and Victor, who was amazed to meet the people he had seen so many times before in the ASR film........... more........ | |
Rynda News for week 5 ending Friday, 1-July-11 |
 | After a slick transfer through Murmansk and 45 minutes by the MI-8 into camp, a highly excited group congregated around the Rynda fireplace for a thorough briefing from Nikolai and his banana. It wasn't long before the group of Brits, Russians and a single Icelandic representative heading off to their cabins to gear up for the first highly anticipated session .......... more........ | |
The Rynda News for week 4 ending Friday, 24-Jun-11 |
 | The long-standing party (aka the Green Butt Brigade) led on as usual by Derek however sadly without Graham this time around - arrived to a rather chilly Rynda with the air and water temperatures about the same at 8 degrees C. One look from the arriving helicopter showed "the stone" at the tail of the home pool well out of the water, which meant lower river conditions than normal .............. more........ |  |
Rynda web report for week 3 ending Friday, 17-Jun-11 |
 | Arriving at Rynda camp, a team of 13 fishers from Russia, Scotland, Latvia, Belarus, England and New Zealand bounded down the steps from the helipad full of anticipation and enthusiasm. After two weeks of unusually warm weather for this point in the season, the big water of the previous two weeks was falling to near perfect height ................. more........ | |
Rynda summary for week 2 ending Friday, 10-Jun-11 |
 | You don't have to be Scandinavian to truly appreciate the opening week of the spring salmon season - but it sure seems to help! This year Reid and Frede joined together with four of their good Norwegian friends to open up the Rynda with some of the warmest spring conditions that any of these northerners could recall for many years.............. more........ |  |
