Please enjoy our latest short video made this September on the Umba River, Russia...

Call me fickle but I have found a new favourite river and it's also knocked my favourite river on the Kola peninsula off the top spot too.

After a difficult two weeks, the season on the Umba is now really beginning to pick up.  It is very hard to know if this delay is because of unusually high water, an extraordinary and unexplained influx of pinks or simply that the whole of the Kola appears to be running later than normal – or a combination of all three?

After our first season on the Umba in 2016 (successful but not a bonanza), we decided to run two June weeks after hearing the guides rave about some fresh fish...

It was with a degree of excitement, trepidation and intrigue that we approached our first season on the Umba...

Bill Drury reports from the fifth week on the Umba where the elements were against the group for most of the week...

The Umba river on the south of the Kola peninsula has long been known to boast an exceptional Autumn run of strong multi sea winter salmon...