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The fourth film in the series of short films about the Ponoi made by Alan Maughan is now available to view here. In this film the owner of Ponoi River Company for the past five years, Ilya Sherbovich, describes how he fell in love with the Ponoi, how much he values its traditions and yet enjoys taking it forward, especally …
This is the second film in the series about the Ryabaga Camp on the Ponoi. It shows how the day runs, how guests are looked after and a brief look at the camp facilities. The previous film was called The Fishing Seasons. A day on Ponoi from Frontiers Travel on Vimeo.
This movie is not a classic ‘making of’ film but it is the ‘raw’ or Go Pro side of hooking, playing and filming one of the wonderful autumn run fish in the short film on The Fishing Seasons. I apologise for the inclusions of some poor language. The whole battle took over 25 minutes with lots of winding etc, much …
The first of a series of short information films about the Ponoi went live last week. Have a look. This film, entitled The Fishing Seasons, tells the story of the different seasons on this wonderful river and the different runs of fish. Early response suggests a real appreciation for the lack of sales pitch and the amount of information. To …
It has been a very busy summer with so many interesting opportunities and people to meet but it has left me short on energy. However, there was one last project I had committed to do. Having wavered, I headed to Ponoi to keep to my commitment to help with the autumn filming of various information chapters that will be available …
This is about as classic as it gets for a spring Home Pool evening. The glow of the midnight sun, wonderful water, good aggressive fish fighting hard. The first fish is a 10lbs summer run, the second that rose first time and eventually took the skater but did not hook-up was also a summer run of the same size or …
This is fishing below camp on Upper Gold Beach beat or 'Pilots' beat as it was once called. No longer fished by the pilots! The fish is about a 9lbs fish. It arrived in the autumn early enough to colour somewhat but is as aggressive and strong as ever as you can see. Here, at this height, one simply walks …
This is a good example of what guests can enjoy any evening or morning on the Ponoi as well as Home Pool. Walk up or down river, here a walk up river for about 15 mins. Look for interesting water, of which there is tons and start fishing. Note the walking in the tundra is easy and along the bank …
This past week, guided by Sergeo Bistrov on Tomba, guest Terry hooked, on a short line, the biggest fish ever caught in the spring on Ponoi at 29lbs. This fish would have been over 30lbs when it arrived in the autumn. Judging by its colour it arrived once the water was cool (therefore remained silver) and has spent the winter …
It was a struggle to get news out from Ryabaga Camp last week because the internet was suffering. But, towards the end of the week, it was working much better and the promise of internet is now fulfilled. Alan Maughan and I were there to build on the success of the film made at Ryabaga last year. Being in Nick’s …