| 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.
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.
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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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Comments
and questions are welcome.
Please contact
me at ryan@theflyshop.com
or call
800-669-3474
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