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Read More »Unforgettable week for our Viking friends on the mighty Kharlovka! Number of Rods: 14 Nationalities: Norwegian Number of salmon: 303 Best Salmon: 29 over 20 pounds with 7 great salmon over 30 pounds including three 35+ big fish rings! with the largest salmon being 42,52 pounds Six new personal bests: Svein – 15lbs – Kharlovka Falls Morten – 23lbs – Golden Pool Odd – 32lbs – Island Pool Robert – 36lbs – Secret Pool Rolf –...
Read More »Number of Rods: 10 Nationalities: Russian Number of salmon: 151 Best Salmon: 16 over 20 pounds There were 4 personal bests: Pavel – 19lbs Eugeny – 24lbs – first ever fish on fly! Sergey Balan – 26lbs Sergey Boldyrev – 26 lbs The biggest fish of the week is 27-pounder landed by Vladimir Snr on Litza’s Classic Pool. Unfortunately our regularly scheduled foreign guests were not allowed to join us this week due to ongoing military...
Read More »Number of Rods: 9 Nationalities: Russian Number of salmon: 115 Best Salmon: 24 over 20 pounds (20% of the salmon) with 2 over 30 pounds There were 6 personal bests: Young Alex – 16lbs in Home pool Vladimir Jr. – 36.3lbs in the Tent pool Sergey – 32lbs in Tent pool Max – 20lbs in Julians Ivan – 24lbs in Upper Dream Elena – 24lbs Lower Tent Litza The biggest fish of the week was 36.3, 32, 29.5, 29 pounds We apologise that we have not been...
Read More »With military exercises affecting the first 2 weeks of the season, along with an unknown number of following weeks, we were especially delighted to see our old friends touch down into the Kharlovka camp! The conditions upon arrival on the opening Saturday were excellent with air temps well into the 20′s which drove water temps up to 10C with a water level of 41cm. The next morning the winds had shifted with cool air temps back down into the low single digits while the...
Read More »The 2018 has been fascinating with weeks that reminded us both of how special these remarkable rivers can be, but also of how finely balanced nature can be, when the heatwave that swept Europe also visited the Arctic tundra in July. In addition, the vagaries of our unique location also meant that we were briefly but once more reminded that the remote and controlled zone in which our rivers flow has the occasional frustration to go hand in hand with the many advantages that...
Read More »Three Rivers. Week 35. Low water autumn conditions on the ASR coincided with a decision by the military authorities to conduct exercises within the restricted zone of the Northern Kola Peninsula leaving us with no alternative but to cancel the fishing trips for a number of our foreign guests. Whilst saddened and frustrated to have disappointed old friends in this way, a small number of old Russian friends were still most welcomed as always. It also offered us an unexpected...
Read More »At last! The heat wave finally let up just days before youth team arrived for what would turn out to be a most jolly and productive fishing week. Temps really started to heat up about 10th of July this season which led to an extended period of bright sunny skies and water temps rising over 20C. While the rivers remained at record low levels, thankfully everything cooled back down just before the young lads arrived who were blessed with mild conditions for the week with...
Read More »Our latest group of experienced fishing friends from mostly Norway – France and Russia arrived a brief brake in the heat wave with mild temps to start the first weekend before a few more days of bright hot conditions that were finally replaced some dark clouds and good rain and a final day result of 29 salmon to end the week. Despite the pockets of heavy rain, water levels remain very low. Despite the challenging conditions for the majority of last week this was...
Read More »Last week was the hottest week on record for the ASR. Following on from exceptionally warm conditions the previous week, temps remained into the 30′s until the final day. Rains had been forecasted for late week which unfortunately never materialised however the breezes did shift to cool things down slightly on the final days. Fishing mostly early and late (with everyone including the salmon avoiding the mid day sun) – the team of mostly experienced ASR guests...
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