Week 3 Begins

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https://colvetmiranda.org/ogfn68i A chilly spring day on the Ponoi.

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Order Tramadol Online Cheap But that doesn’t mean there is not a bit of fun in there as well.

https://reggaeportugal.com/8xsfbcazt Kiki de la Canal of Argentina guiding on Russia's Ponoi River.

enter I have ten minutes before I have to run off, but here are a few images from the past few weeks.  Our week 3 clients arrived yesterday and we are anxiously waiting to see how fishing will be this week.  If last night’s Home Pool results were any indication, it looks to be a promising week.  (I made it down to the water with the camera and am very happy with the results… images to come soon!)

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https://musicboxcle.com/2025/04/pbvjq2orqih Unloading supplies out of the Mi-8 at Brevyeni. Morning in the tundra.

go site Made a hurried trip to Brevyeni Camp this morning.  A supply helicopter was ferrying over two staff members and supplies for the initial few weeks of camp; I was able to stow away.  I could get used to this sort of transportation.

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follow site Brevyeni is also owned by the Ponoi River Company – the owners of Ryabaga – and operates for only a few weeks each season.  The small camp is about 20 klicks downriver from us here in Ryabaga.  It’s a fifteen minute ride in an Mi-8 or over two hours in a boat.

Purchase Tramadol Discount Heading back from Brevyeni Camp. Tolik Vaulin of Russia on the left, Rory Paterson of Scotland on the right.

see I’ll post some more details on the past few days here at Ryabaga later – it’s been a whirlwind and I’m never really sure what day it is. The hours pass by in a sunlit blur.  I’m still waking up at 0230h, seeing sunlight peeking in my window, and jumping up to get dressed.  Days start before 0530 and finish no earlier than midnight.  There is a plethora of hard work to be done and I am dying to get out from behind the computer, if even for an hour or so moving logs.  It’s still cold and wet and windy but outside is outside.

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First Week at Ryabaga Camp

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go to site It’s been a whirlwind of a first week here in Russia.  I’ve met a plethora of new friends, started the process of learning how to spey fish, and am slowly getting trained into my duties here.  I’m already used to the fact that most conversations I hear are in Russian and am slowly expanding my Russian vocabulary.

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https://reggaeportugal.com/uih7evxu This week’s anglers are finishing their week up with today’s fishing… the day started off cold and windy; the sky had lightened slightly and, though the wind persists, everyone was anticipating a promising day on the water.  Tomorrow we say goodbye to this week’s fourteen guests and welcome twenty-five new fishermen.

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get link I’ve been hauling the camera with me as much as possible.  Though I haven’t had much time to photograph any action on the water, here are a few images from the past several days.

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First Salmon!

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https://kanchisilksarees.com/h9i15gya56 First salmon. Many thanks to Boris Machnev for taking the photo.

Cheap Clonazepam Tablets I had the chance to run down to the river yesterday morning with Matt Breuer, camp manager and Boris Machnev, one of our camp mechanics.  I brought the camera along, planning to just enjoy some time on the water and hopefully shoot some images.

https://www.villageofhudsonfalls.com/6yr0xht1 I ended up having the opportunity to try my had at spey casting.  This was my first time with a double handed rod and most certainly will not be my last.  I’m hooked.

https://townofosceola.com/kmcx7sgo2 As luck would have it, my first Atlantic salmon was this guy.  At fourteen pounds I was a pretty happy girl.  I’m very anxious to get back out onto the water and give it another try!

https://colvetmiranda.org/39mnfi7c Staff bar time at Ryabaga Camp after a long day preparing the camp. From left: Matt Breuer (USA), Angus Walton (Scotland), Barrett Mattison (USA), and Matthew Solon (Ireland).

https://lavozdelascostureras.com/041g0bl000n Things are coming along swimmingly here at Ryabaga; last night we went to bed to a steady, cold rain and woke up to a light dusting of snow.  It’s almost noon here and the clouds are giving way to the barest hints of sunshine and some warmer weather.  This week’s anglers had an excellent day yesterday and were anticipating a promising day on the river today.

https://kirkmanandjourdain.com/n6b978i It’s my day off for the week and I’m taking the opportunity to catch up on some computer work and hopefully go for a hike across the tundra this afternoon.  Ryabaga is feeling very much like home and I find that despite the long hours and plethora of work to be completed, I’m much happier here than I have been in a long time.

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The Evening’s Images

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Home Pool salmon.

Yet another short post today; I will have a long post running soon on Chi Wulff; you can read more about the past day there.

Ryabaga Camp dock.

Suffice to say I made it down to the river for a few minutes and my soul is much happier.

Cheers.

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Getting Set In Ryabaga Camp

by Fire Girl Jess on May 25, 2012

Guides relaxing at the Ponoi River Company's Ryabaga Camp. From left: Matthew Solon of Ireland, Boris Mamontoff of Argentina, Kiki de la Canal of Argentina, and Rory Patterson of Scotland.

Short post today.  One of my first projects in camp has been to track down all members of the staff and take pictures of them.

It’s been an interesting task as I don’t know who is who and don’t speak the same language as most of the people here.

It has turned out to be the best way to learn who everyone is and to make some new friends.  I’ll post some more portrait images later, but here’s a candid of a few of the guides I got in the downtime.

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Trip to Ryabaga Camp

by Fire Girl Jess on May 24, 2012

The flight into Ryabaga Camp.

I’ve arrived in Ryabaga Camp!  We left Murmansk yesterday morning and took a three and a half hour bus ride through the tundra to the little town of Lovozero.  Then a group of sixteen of us loading onto an Mi-8 for the two hour ride across the Kola Peninsula to Ryabaga.

 It was my first flight in a helicopter and certainly seemed like a fitting one.  Sitting on bench seats surrounded by a team of people speaking Russian and piles of various luggage and supplies at my feet, I was struck by a sense of surrealism.  A week ago I was walking the harbor in Olympia, Washington.  Now I’m in Russia at a fly fishing camp working with what seems to be shaping up to be a fascinating group of individuals.

Inside a Russian Mi-8 packed with sixteen people, luggage and supplies.

The river is astounding.  After being in Texas in the desert for the past year, seeing this much water in one place brought a big smile to my face.  It’s up; around 800 cubic meters per second, and should drop to around 400 through the season.  This is rich, dark water.  Darker water than I’ve seen before.  The guides have been out setting up river tents along the way – basically lunch stops for clients – and come back bundled up, cold and wet.  Temperatures were around 45 F yesterday with clouds and wind; today looks to be dawning still and partly sunny.  Mentally, at least, that should help keep it a bit warmer.

 We are prepping the camp today and tomorrow with the first week’s guests expected to arrive Saturday.  I have no doubt it will prove to be a mad first few weeks as I learn the camp, learn the job, and get to know my new teammates.  Much of the camp staff doesn’t speak English or has a very limited knowledge; I look forward to learning some Russian but for the moment we’re getting by with hand gestures and pantomiming.

Internet connection is a bit slow (satellite) so posting may be a bit infrequent.  Rest assured, though, the updates will be coming.

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