"Fish"

*Hello, All!* K. A. GIPP. ONCE AGAIN ABOUT THE LIMIT SIZE OF THE TIMEN Newspaper "FISHERMAN FISHERMAN" No. 10 2001 In one of the programs “Dialogues about Fishing” they talked about the largest reliably known taimen, and in particular a specimen 208 cm long was mentioned, caught in the Lena River, Yakutia. But judging by the letter from Konstantin Andreevich Gippa, this is far from the limit for this amazing fish. After demobilization at the end of the Great Patriotic War, in 1946, I recruited to the far north in the Mining and Geological Department of the Main Northern Sea Route. He worked in Yakutia on the Olenek River in the Olenekugol Mining Administration until 1949. The Olenek River in its lower reaches is up to 1 km wide. The river depth reaches 50 m, there is bottom ice due to permafrost. The river flow is calm. Zone ebbs and flows over 100 km. Therefore, water 2 times a day becomes salty and 2 times a day - relatively fresh. Fish in the lower reaches of Olenka The fish are kept small, mostly burbot. The Mining Administration had a standard fishing net 250 m long and a boat for 6 cheerful Due to the poverty of the lower reaches of the river, fish lovers drag a net - and The work is hard - it wasn't much. The catches varied: from half a bucket burbot for a ton to rare specimens of nelma, omul and taimen. The largest specimen of taimen was approximately 2.5-2.7 m. I took a photo with it,standing on the bow of a boat moored to the shore, raised about a meter above the ground. The head of the taimen, which I held under the gills, reached my chin, and the tail curved slightly along the ground. About 200 km from the mouth of Olenka there is a village of reindeer herders Tyumyati. Below village, about 20 km away, there is a rift where the river makes a sharp turn. Above the riffle the river flows fast and it abounds in fish. In the summer of 1948 I, like the only person in the Mining Administration who walked along Olenka above Tyumyat, drove a boat towing a kungas with 20 workers. In the area of the riffle on the shore there were 2 Yakut dugouts, and next to them were 2 taimen. Stop the boat with kungas it was impossible to tow due to the strong current. We've walked the distance about 20 m from the shore, it was a sunny, clear polar night, and it was good it is clear that both taimen were longer than the dugouts, approximately 3 m each. In the winter of 1947, I was at a party conference in Kyusyur-Balun, which is in the lower reaches of the Lena, and heard about significantly larger sizes of taimen than 3 meters. K. A. Gipp, Born in 1911, honorary member of the "Fisherman-Sportsman" society, republican category judge /That’s all, All, you can scroll further.../