Fricken Mongolia Man!!!

[1toughfish]

lol. you can catch taimen easily off fresh prairie dog. thats a rodent that they use for it. i heard they slam your lure, bait, jig, whatever and swim away and come back and swallow it. some people think their logs in the shallow water. lol they must be huge. break out hte trout gear!

[PlatinumHooks]

Originally Posted by 1toughfish

lol. you can catch taimen easily off fresh prairie dog. thats a rodent that they use for it. i heard they slam your lure, bait, jig, whatever and swim away and come back and swallow it. some people think their logs in the shallow water. lol they must be huge. break out hte trout gear!

Yeah man, I thought Peacock Bass hit really hard at the surface, and they do, really hard! But when My first Taimen hit (my third cast of the first day), it scared the S#@! out of me. It's like an electrical jolt! Seriously! After the first couple, you get use to the strike, but it's still incredible.

[FishSlayer]

Originally Posted by cst

because fresh dead lemmings are easy to get. lemmings reproduce so much that they knock eachother off cliffs (because there isnt enogh room)!

Thats why these fish eat them, the stupid rodents try and swim the rivers to get to new feeding ground and MUNCH!

[cst]

we should use live kittens as bait, im sure those do ver good as well...

[FishSlayer]

Use Guena Pigs, they are more annoying and cheaper to buy...

[cst]

we should start a "pets for bait" club lol

[FishSlayer]

or a "Take your pet fishing" day, I bet a Black labrador would make excellent Great White Shark bait.

[cst]

so would Old Yeller, Lassie, and beatoven. was the pig from Green acres named Arnold? he could become CST bait!

[GlobalFisher]

That sounds awesome man, heard a lot about taiman and I have caught some Grayling. Very pretty!

[PlatinumHooks]

If any of you guys have never seen a Taimen, check this out:

http://www.acuteangling.com/Taimen/taihome.htm#taimenu

The largest one I caught was about 10-12 inches longer thatn this one.
Keep in mind they can live 25-30 years, and they get about twice the length of the one you'll see in this picture. When they get bigger they turn more "silver" in color and thier bodies get semi-scaley like a Tarpon or Arrowana, but scales not nearly as big.

On this same website (www.AcuteAngling.com) you can check out other exotic species like Payara (from South America -these are wicked!) and Golden Dorado or they just call 'em "Freshwater Dorado" (from South America also), I've actually caught this species before at Castaic...just kidding, ...I was in Argentina about two years ago and did one day of fishing for this fish. I wanna catch Payara the next time I'm able to go to South America!!!

[Cuban_Fish]

that looks awesome, those freshwater dorado are spectacular i saw a show about them they look like tons of fun.

[tunakid]

those taimen look like a cross between a brown trout and a pike. cool lookin fish

[DementedFish]

Originally Posted by tunakid

those taimen look like a cross between a brown trout and a pike. cool lookin fish

Ya they do.

[PlatinumHooks]

Originally Posted by tunakid

those taimen look like a cross between a brown trout and a pike. cool lookin fish

Yeah, at that size they do. I can't find any pictures on the web of what they look like when they get bigger. I 've explained it on this thread a few times, but it's hard to concieve without seeing it for yourself. They really go through this weird metamorphasis...more silvery in color (maybe grayish is a better color discription), and somewhat scaley.

[umoa]

i read it back a while ago in field n stream. they are a landlocked salmon, trout family fish which can grow to 6ft. thats what i remember frm it. n pics of huge brown trout/salmon looking fish. n piano wire strung prarie dog lookin critters.

good times.