Russian Fishing 4, Tunguska River, Trophy Taimen 2-5-24

[@Darv7451]

Great catch and great fight. Big!!! 💪

[@DaveTormala]

Thank you. To be honest when I first hooked into i I didn't know what I was doing cause thought it was going to keep running and was going to burn the hell out of my Venga.. cause the biggest fear was the cost for repairing the FB.

[@glock20gen4-10mm]

Strong fish. Nice catch

[@DaveTormala]

Indeed it was.. to where you can't lock a 54kg fish on an 84kg setup. Totally agree.

[@Inscription2432]

very nice one dt! gratz!

[@DaveTormala]

Thank you :)

[@witek0206]

Congrats , nice trophy!

[@DaveTormala]

Thank you.

[@rammie1976]

congrats mate :)

[@DaveTormala]

Thank you. One point I thought it be a BT cause I didn't know how these really fought. Strong fish to the end. I tried locking. Almost broke a 85kg line.

[@UrsulPolarYT]

Gg

[@DaveTormala]

Thanks.

[@Peter-bakker]

I sat on that spot yesterday for 5 and half hours, 72 fish for just over 2k silver the biggest catch was a Taiman of 36.5 kg, Unfortunate no trophys for me and no cafe orders

[@DaveTormala]

i know I was on that spot off and on. I watched Mesk video and copied his exact way he was fishing and it worked. Speed 15 dose not work. but 13 did. i hope this helps.

[@Peter-bakker]

@@DaveTormala I am happy i did not got that trophy taiman because i don't have a rod that can handle them but i am just 4k silver away from the top cast rod. I am not complaining i had hoped on the trophy pike and i am happy with 2k silver :)

[@DaveTormala]

@@Peter-bakker Don't have the Barracuda meaning?

[@Peter-bakker]

@@DaveTormala no i mean the segun ultime m100hh

[@DaveTormala]

@@Peter-bakkerAh ok. Well possible to get the Taimen on the Fortuna Carp rods as you seen. Might struggle a little but that's a thrill of fishing. But I understand having a much better rod meaning you can pull these in more easier. I can see where it would be more handy for fish like the E-Sturg.

[@hottoast9948]

Ive spent over 12 hours on this spot and got a 20kg biggest lol

[@DaveTormala]

I know I was on the spot all day off and on. i watched Mesk video he posted and seen how he was doing it. 13 speed seem to work better and I was actually get more bites then I was on the 15 speed. Plus casting directly towards South helped too. I do hope that you get yours soon. I will test the spot out later after the reset cause I know there going to be a migration. Usually these type of server resets come with a migration. But will test it to see if it still good or not.

[@hottoast9948]

@@DaveTormala Please do. Was there for 3 hours earlier today again. Looked even worse 😢

[@DaveTormala]

@@hottoast9948 well good news. There never a migration so the spot should be active still.

[@hottoast9948]

@@DaveTormala glad to hear :D