ASTRAEUS, the Gatwick based charter airline is to launch a series of weekly charter flights from Gatwick to Murmansk, just about as far north as you can go, on Russia”s Kola Peninsula. Besides being an important port and trading centre it is a fly fishing mecca. The Friday flights, operated on behalf of British-based travel specialists, Roxton Bailey Robinson Worldwide, get underway in May and will run through the salmon season. The average catch last year was 52 fish per rod per week! http://www.flyastraeus.com