Lenok are Mongolia's version of our trout. They occupy similar haunts and share a similar love for hoppers, beetles, and other terrestrials. During the fall hatches of mayflies and caddis, the lenok become much more selective. Fly fishing for lenok and grayling on lightweight fly rods will rival some of the best trout fishing in the American West. No country ignites the Western imagination as Mongolia does.
Westerners still envision a stark, cold land inhabited by fierce nomads.
In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Mongolia offers a rare glimpse of some of the world's last untouched tracts of wilderness and a kind, nomadic people with a deep appreciation of nature. Our camps are located in north-central Mongolia in a region similar to Montana's Yellowstone River valley. The difference is immediately seen, however, in the views that are unobstructed by development. The mountains around the river are lined with unbroken stands of larch, birch aspen and alder forests.