Worldwide flyfishing destinations : Mongolia is a unique fly-fishing destination: a land of rolling steppes, rugged mountains, verdant forest, and pristine rivers. Hardy nomads continue a traditional way of life living in felt tents and moving their herds to new pasture with the seasons. Wild rivers teem with fish: Grayling, Lenok Trout, and the legendary Taimen.

Mongolia is one of the world's great remaining freshwater fisheries. Asia's continental watershed runs through Mongolia, splitting the country's more than 4000 rivers. Our crystal clear rivers host a number of sportfish including the Taimen, the world biggest salmonid. Taimeri often reach 30 kilos. Other target species include the Lenok, Grayling, Pike, Sturgeon and Asian water fish.
The most wide spread local fish species is the Lenok (or Siberian trout). According to locality, it can reach up to 80 cm of length and 4 to 5 kilos of weight. A wonderfully colored, pugnacious fish, it can be handled with all types of bait, streamers offering the most attractive option. Local specimens of the Grayling, normally reach 40 cm of length and being remarkably plentiful, represent a highly distinctive feature of most of Mongolia's rivers. Other species suitable for angling include the Pike, reaching locally up to 130 cm and averaging around one rneter on catching: the Burbot (specimens measuring over one meter have been caught); the perch; the sockeye; the omul and the Amur region, the Amur Pike, the Uskuch Trout, which can reach up to 80 crn; and the Mongol variety of the Silver Salmon.
More than 4000 rivers and more than 30 lakes of Mongolia are distributed into 3 basic water drainage basins.
- Central Asian Close Drainage Basin (with 10 kinds of fish)
- Arctic Drainage Basin (22 kinds of fish)
- Pacific Drainage Basin (43 kinds of fish)
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Mongolia is home to the world's largest surviving salmonid, the Taimen - Hucho hucho Taimen. Taimen are known to the Mongolians as the "River Wolf". They are an exceptionally ferocious predator which feeds on ducks, prairie dogs, mice, and fish. |
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