Now think about Alaska, it has about the same number of streams, rivers and creeks as Kamchatka, although just shy of 10,000 are officially named. ![]() ![]() That’s a lot of freshwater and one could speculate that the best rainbow trout, steelhead, salmon and char river in Kamchatka is still yet to be discovered. Kamchatka is the mother of all wilderness freshwater fly fisheries with over 12,000 pristine spring creeks, rivers and streams, of which only about three dozen have ever been fished, let alone explored or navigated. Take the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia for example. That doesn’t seem like a lot of freshwater to explore and fish, but consider that more than 90% of the fly fishers in the world identify themselves at trout fishermen and trout live in freshwater and there are still rivers, streams, creeks and lakes out there that has never had a fly or lure casted into them. 03% of earth’s freshwater is surface water like lakes, rivers, streams and marshes. ![]() That leaves about 3% for freshwater that exists in water vapor, rivers, streams, lakes, icecaps and glaciers.
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