Kamchatka

[rollcast]

Hey everyone...Got a catalogue in the mail today from The Fly Shop, and I was looking at all the incredible fishing vacations that they offer.The one to Kamchatka just seems awesome. I would love the opportunity to fish all that virgin water, but there is no danger of that for me.. too poor!! However, I was wondering if anybody has been there and what it was like. How about any of the other exotic trips they offer like Chile or Argentina?

[rizeye]

yea i saw that to and spent the evening drooling

[Orthoman]

I have looked at kamchatka on many occaisions but time, distance, and money just don't seem to make it worth while.

As for other trips-- did Chile last year and going back in two weeks --- awesome trip. lots for fish, nice people. Overall, a great time -- otherwise wouldn't be going back.

This will probably be my last trip to Chile for awhile -- just too many other places I want to fish -- maybe Kamchatka but only a maybe.

Would like to hit the East Coast somehere in Canada for Atlantic Salmon or British Columbia for steelhead.

[flyfishfairwx]

I have looked at kamchatka on many occaisions but time, distance, and money just don't seem to make it worth while.

As for other trips-- did Chile last year and going back in two weeks --- awesome trip. lots for fish, nice people. Overall, a great time -- otherwise wouldn't be going back.

This will probably be my last trip to Chile for awhile -- just too many other places I want to fish -- maybe Kamchatka but only a maybe.

Would like to hit the East Coast somehere in Canada for Atlantic Salmon or British Columbia for steelhead.

East coast Canada - Ponds on the Miramichi in New Brunswick

[Jim Cramer]

I fished there in Aug 2000.

These are my general impressions.

1. Fish size greatly over hyped. 5# average is hard to meet when the first few fish are 14" long! We fished a non-steelhead river. Fish comparable to most Alaska rivers. It takes a VERY rich river with a lot of food to grow very larger trout - rivers that far north do not have that food supply.

2. Food simple , bland and non exciting.

3, Housing acceptable - individual tents with two cots and electric light bulb

4. A long ways to travel to fish. Don't miss your return flight three bad thing can happen - first, your visa will have expired; second you will most likely run out of cash; and third you will not of learned enough Russian to do any negotiations. * grin*

5. Guides - Generally marginal to average. Most are transferring techniques used in Montana or Alaska to the Kamchaka waters - they work but then again almost anything will work.

6. Fish are not sophisticated- most every works - bluegill poppers, hair mice, woolly buggers, small nymphs under an indicator, dries of all sizes, and on and on.

7. Don't have a medical problem - you are LONG ways from good help!

8. Value on a scale of 1 to 10 -- fishing a 5, experience an 8.

It was fun once but I would not return.

[rollcast]

Hey Jim...thanks.. that was kind of what I was expecting..Thought it sounded too good to be true.. That is a long ways to travel for fish sizes that are catchable closer to home. Hey Ortho.. Did you go to Chile through The Fly Shop? Whereabouts did you go/ are you going?