In the lower reaches the Bichi River before entering the Udyl Lake is forming a big delta. The area is swampy & treeless; it looks like tundra. My camp is hidden near one of the nearby streams, Bitki R. The distance to the lake is 1 km.
End of June is time of downstream migration of the chum salmon smolts. All predatory and non-predatory fish is now feeding by these small silver smolts. I will be using smolt imitations of appropriate size. My main goal is to catch Amur whitefish with a fly.
The area is flat, the current - rather slow. The terrain is not spectacular, but it is notmal for habitats of whitefish.
I was using 7 weight rod, floating line and sink tip. Whitefish is normally not coming close to the surface, and prefers to feed in middle layers of water.
Amur whitefish
Amur whitefish; the biggest specimens of the species can be up to 5 kg.
This species of whitefish is predatory; it has terminal mouth.
Along the north shore the 50 km long Udyl Lake is very shallow
On the gravel bars of the lake outlet there are lots of cornelians
Kolchem village at the lake outlet
To be continued...
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