Seasoned globetrotting salmon aficionados in the know regard the Kola Peninsula as the greatest salmon fishing of them all. Here in this remote part of northern Russian the area is protected fiercely by the military, and the landscape remains pure, harsh and magical. There’s world class salmon and trout fishing too, but it’s the salmon, which go to over 50lb and which regularly reach 25lb that draw anglers here from all over the world. Despite its wilderness location inside the Arctic Circle, the fishing set-up is second to none in places like the Kharlovka Atlantic Salmon Reserve, and the stocks are carefully looked after, to say the least. It’s not cheap to fish for salmon in the Kola Peninsula, but for those salmon anglers with plenty of money, it’s on the ‘must do’ bucket list.

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