Siberia Pictures

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The Angara River is the only river out of Lake Baikal and is massive. Unfortunately there are several dams on the Angara so most fishing occurs between the dams in the southern and middle part of Siberia. Baikal White Grayling and Lenok are the most common fish.


Listvyanka is the main village on the northern side of Lake Baikal and we had to stop for the horses walking down the middle of the street when I was there. It is a good place to find a boat and arrange for fishing.


Lake Baikal is the largest lake in the world that is larger than all four of the Great Lakes combined. It is a challenge to fish and requires getting out on the lake or getting to the shallow part of the lake in the north.


Not exactly what I had in mind for a fishing boat but this was what I fished from when I went out on Baikal. I was there in July and it was cold on the lake. The technique to fish Baikal was interesting and something I never expected.


This was the typical fishing technique used by the boat captions. They beach the steel vessel nose in to the beach as rev the motor to create a large prop wash. Fish move into the prop wash to get the things loosened from the bottom.


Most of the rivers in southern Siberia and Lake Baikal had Lenok but they were not the most common fish. There were many Grayling and a few Lenok caught.


White Grayling are the most common fish in the Angara River but not in Baikal or the tributaries that flow into the lake. I caught more Black Grayling when I fished those rivers. Every fish caught by the Russians in kept and I gave my fish to the local Russian fishermen.


My favorite of all of the Siberian fish is the Baikal Black Grayling. They seem to be in all of the tributaries that feed the lake and are common in the lake.


I took this picture of a White Grayling at an Aquarium in Listvyanka. They are not the most beautiful of the Grayling but they are unique to this part of the world.