| The last great stronghold of wild trout on
Earth is the Russian Kamchatka wilderness.
It’s a 160,000 square-mile wooded peninsula laced with
more rivers than there are sport fishermen!
The Kamchatka Peninsula
has long been a place shrouded in mystery. Only since
the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 have we begun
to understand what lies behind its jagged North Pacific coastline
- the biggest, strongest and most plentiful populations of
wild rainbow trout, salmon, and char on the planet.
During Russia's
Tsarist period, Kamchatka existed in the minds of Europeans
as nothing more than a blank spot on the map and rumors
of a land abounding with natural resources. In 1724, curiosity,
a sense of adventure and the booming European fur trade persuaded
Peter the Great to commission an eastward exploratory expedition.
The leader of that expedition, Vitus Bering, and his crew
were to become the Lewis and Clarks of the eastern hemisphere.
The results of their expedition are famous, having led to
the founding of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatksy, and ultimately the
discovery of Alaska by Europeans.
| . . .words simply don't do Kamchatka justice
- it has to be experienced first-hand to be fully comprehended. |
Kamchatka today, while
mapped, remains basically the same; wild, spectacular, inviting.
But words simply don't do Kamchatka justice
- it has to be experienced first-hand to be fully comprehended.
We at The Fly Shop® spend a good chunk of our lives seeking
out the best fly fishing opportunities Kamchatka has to offer.
What we've found to date are a hand full of trout utopias
where in a week or more of fishing anglers encounter no sign
of human life save for their fishing companions. And, with
hundreds of rivers left to explore, we know that we have much
more to experience in the future. In the spirit of Peter the
Great, Lewis and Clark, and the great fly fishing expeditionaries
of the Rocky Mountains and Alaska, we continue to explore
new rivers that humble us and remind us of why we fly fish
- of why we devote so much of our time, our resources, and
ourselves to seeking contact with those elegant creatures
called rainbow trout - because they live in beautiful places.
The Fly Shop®
has been going to Kamchatka since the early days of the mid
1990's. Since that time our network of North American
and Russian fly fishing experts and fisheries scientists have
pioneered the great rivers of Kamchatka. Names like Zhupanova,
Sedanka, Tigil, Ozernaya, Kalgauch, Kvachina, and Utohlok
have become famous over the last decade and were first fished
under the auspices of The Fly Shop®.
Whether your passion
is for softly presenting traditional dry flies to free rising
rainbows, swinging big streamers for bone-jarring grabs from
trophy-sized trout and kundzha, or you're addicted
to the intense rushing surface take of a fish on a mouse pattern,
The Fly Shop® invites you for a week (or two or three!)
of fly fishing that will overload your senses, hit you with
adrenaline, and leave you with unforgettable cultural experiences.
Our camps are in equal part fittingly rustic and ultra high-tech.
Our Russian outfitting partners are masters in their field
and are respected as such among their peers. Our North American
camp directors are consummate professionals who've gravitated
toward Kamchatka out of the same sense of adventure and pursuit
of high quality angling that has led you to think about going
there now. And, our staff at The Fly Shop® will pull out
all the stops to advise, coordinate, and insure that you experience
the same Kamchatka that keeps us and our guests going back
year after year after year...
The time is now to make a pilgrimage to
Kamchatka, the new epicenter of wilderness fly fishing. Give
us a call, we'd love to get you there.
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