At the dike - part 2 (Amur River near Khabarovsk, June)

When the water level in the Amur goes down, the top of the dike becomes visible.  This period it is possible to reach it by boat, and to fish powerful streams flowing through the dike.  This habitat is unusual for the Amur River, but many of the local fish like it.

In strong current it is necessary to use heavy rods and sinking lines

Chinese perch (Mandarin bass)

Chinese perch should be fished near the bottom, among the rocks, with a streamer with upright hook

Mongolian redfin is often caught in the same place, in middle layers of the water

Mongolian redfin

Good size Mandarin bass

June is time of flowers

Tym River, Sakhalin Island

Tym River is 330 km long, it is the second biggest stream of the Sakhalin Island after the Poronai River. Tym flows through the widest part of the island to the west, north, and north-east, and enters the Nyisky Bay of the Sea of Okhotsk. The fish fauna of the Tym is mixture of Amur fauna and anadromous fish of north-west part of the Pacific (Pacific salmon, charrs, sea-run taimen & Pacific redfin).

Middle reaches of the Tym River. The river is slow, wide, and in many places - deep.

Amur pike was caught not only in the bays and sloughs, but in the riffles as well.

Cherry salmon is found only on the Asian coast of Pacific ocean

It was cold and rainy, and big yellowish mayflies (#10 or even # 8) were hatching

Amur ide caught with the imitation of a mayfly

Pacific redfin were also feeding in the surface, eating hatching insects

Lower Tym R. has no riffles; it is wide and slow.