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Mongolian Taimen, Mongolia
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Mongolian Taimen, Mongolia

 

Hucho taimen, is the world's largest salmonid (with reports of 200-pounders), and also one of the most outrageously aggressive. Swimming in streams across Siberia and Mongolia, they pound gigantic streamers or floating bugs, and then tear up the surface. Thad Robison of the Angling Exploration Group reports catching and releasing a 20-inch lenok, also known as Manchurian trout, only to see it smashed by a much larger taimen.

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