Dan Podolski, one the Ryabaga Camp Russian guides, on Home Pool duty.
It’s been a wild sprint here this past week; I’m running on about 3-4 hours of sleep a night and 18+ hour days.
I need some time on the river.
Release.
At any rate, here are a few images from the past few weeks. I have not had any time to get the camera out in the past five days but am hoping that will change.
We’ve had several VIP guests in tonight and are anticipating the arrival of another tonight. It means lots of running and time spent on small details. The week’s morale was increased by the catching of the largest fish caught on a fly at Ryabaga in the spring – a healthy 29.6 lb. Atlantic Salmon. Sergei “Big Fish” Bistrov was the guide, and helped Terrance, one of his anglers for the day, bring the fish to bay.
Matthew Solon of Ireland on Home Pool duty at Ryabaga Camp.
Otherwise, I’m working on training new staff and implementing some new procedures around camp. When you have 40 staff living and working together in close proximity there are bound to be some issues, but I’ve been very pleasantly surprised by how well everyone gets along. The Russians are fantastic and I find myself preferring their company over native English speakers… I’m getting used to the accent.
And the people are just awesome.
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