[foreach71]

Recently I visited Kola Peninsula's Sidorovka river as part of the group of 6 fly fishermen from Ukraine and Russia.

In the end of the season salmon fishing was tough: very low water, mostly cold weather, and fish wasn't active. But beside that, everybody caught the salmon. 3 men in a group caught their first salmon in a life in that trip. Also, there was some decent brown trout in the river.

We lived in remote camp, managed by Sportfish company. It's reacheable only by helicopter. The camp surrounded by open tundra space and tough rocky terrain along the river, no human settlements nearby. Plenty of wild animals live in tundra, including reindeers, bears, wolverines.

Unfortunately, our tube with rods were lost in airport, so I and my friend used borrowed equipment. We got the tube on the way back in Murmansk.
The river is comfortable for SH rod during low water season. So, DH equipment was not even touched. Some friends used 11' 6/7 class switch rods with success.

Flies which were productive:
Golden Killer, Green Butt, Undertaker, Sunray Shadow, all hairwing tied in low-water style with sparse dressing on single hooks No. 3 - 7, or small double hooks No. 6 - 10
I also had hookups on featherwing Logie and Green Highlander on small doubles, but no fish landed

 

[shroon]

congrats looks like you had a great trip one day I would like to fish the kola peninsula.

 

[Deep Swing]

Nice, and no trees or bushes to hinder casting, but I suspect the wind could be an issue
Ds


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[foreach71]

there is a lot of open space; wind can be an issue too
fishing was better in upper section

Lower Aquarium pool in lower part of the river: calm and glassy



Canyon stretch, upper part of the river



"The ****house" site, upper part. It has a small cabin to stay overnight.
The river runs through 4 or 5 small lakes, and couple of bigger ones.
very productive salmon holding water was inlets and outlets of the lakes

 

[steelhead23]

"group of 6 fly fishermen from Ukraine and Russia."

Not to get into politics, but perhaps you could have invited Vlad Putin and Petro Poroshenko they could have worked out their differences. Nothing like a pull on vodka and salmon to clear the air. Gorgeous place. Thanks for the photos.

 

[shotgunner]

Wow does your first pic in post #4 illustrate just how low the water was.. you can see what she would be with normal flow.

The small little basin / lake looks like the ticket. Bombers away :smokin:

Thanks for posting pics, amazing looking terrain. Love the old weather beaten buildings. Scary part is their probably not all that old!