World's Largest Trout - The Taimen

[RyanCreek]

Up to 6' long and over 200 pounds. These big trout are really suffering, but conservation efforts AND catch and release fishing are helping to save them in the beautiful Eg River in Mongolia, a fly fisher's exotic paradise.

This great little video (linked below) highlights this rare species, the Taimen, and describes the many benefits of fishing to help preserve them from extinction.

[url "http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071113-taimen-video-vin.html"][#63626b]http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...aimen-video-vin.html[/#63626b][/url]

Here's a pic from the video:

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[Dryrod]

[center][font "Garamond"][#008000][size 4]Thanks RyanCreek for the video. Found it interesting that their diet includes anything that can fit in their mouth.[/size][/#008000][/font]
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[flygoddess]

Mongolia or BUST! [cool]
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[tubeN2]

Thanks for the share and I am glad to see that there are other conservetuers out there.

Dead fish don't grow.[cool]
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[Dryrod]

[font "Garamond"][#008000][size 4]And to think that dude was caught on a 7x leader. Yea right. I would have needed a AAA tow truck to haul that freight train in and a trapeze net to land it.[/size][/#008000][/font]
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[macfly55]

does that diet include human body parts such as hands and feet.. or maybe the occassional leg...

MacFly [angelic]
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