Fishing day

The first and last days of your trip allow for half-days of fishing.

In between are six full fishing days that follow the following schedule, with plenty of flexibility according to group preferences.

• 7am, coffee & tea.
• 8am, breakfast.
• 9am, on the water: Each two anglers are assigned a guide and a 1-2 mile beat of the river.
• 1pm, all 3 rafts meet for lunch: The cook has floated ahead of you in the morning and prepared lunch on a gravel bar.
• For the afternoon, another beat assignment means you cast to “first” water all day.
• 6pm, arrive to camp.
• 7pm, Dinner.
• Cocktails, campfire and fish stories close out the day. For midnight-sun junkies, most of the camps have high quality home water a stone’s throw from the fire pit.

All Kamchatka programs employ a guide rotation system, so each group of two anglers spends two days with each guide. Staff consists of one North American head guide and two seasoned Russian guides. Our head guides are talented professionals with years of Russian and/or other international camp management experience, and years of prior experience guiding in Alaska, British Columbia or the Western US. They are selected not just for their significant on-water talents, but as curious, enthusiastic representatives of Kamchatka.

Our Russian guides come from varied backgrounds, usually associated with biology, wildlife management, hunting, trapping or commercial fishing. Flyfishing being a relatively new sport to Russia, our guides come equipped with varying levels of pure flyfishing knowledge. Some are exceptional, having been with us for 10 or more years. Others have been brought on board for their skills as woodsmen and watermen, whose technical abilities are still evolving, but who are in rhythm with the lives and habitat of rainbow trout.

Everyone staff member works to see the smile on your face when you hook up