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Well me being Desi ill place my bait like Tendulkar.....and attracting fish well i put pictures of Rakhi samant,Malika Sherawat on my feeder rig.....only hope the bloody fish are not Gay...!

HA HA HA
my dear they don't give a damm 2 our bomb shells,well they may watch ur feeder rig as some kind of horror show as they have their own mallika's & rakhees down there
next time u dive watch them closely LIONHEART

sorry guys about the cylonic conditions

Hey anybody have any idea whats going on in harihareshwar!!!!
All the best Guys

calling all anglers from HARIHARESHWAR give us your status report, we r a bit worried here, please update us
-OVER N OUT--LIONHEART

All my SMS's to SpoonAngler have returned nothing. no contact.... seems they have fallen off the planet

I hope santosh is having a good time with all the big females he wanted to catch

well said ALIBHAI Patience is indeed the virtue of life…
fellow anglers fishing teaches us patience, u need 2 have patience 2 achieve ur goals in life as someone rightly said "THE MAN WITH PATIENCE AND AVERAGE DETERMINATION CAN ACHIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE" although some of us r worried about u all given the weather conditions at the time

come on Ali hurry up

Hi Everyone,
It was work again on Monday morning (16th November) after two days of Angling at Harihareshwar after we returned late on Sunday evening back home. Hence the delay in sending my report.
Finally 26 Anglers participated and reached Harihareshwar late evening on Friday, the 13th! The weather looked promising after the disappearance of Cyclone ‘Phyan’. We chalked out the Plan for Saturday morning and decided to try Bankot Beach.




Every one was ready early in the morning and we boarded the Ferry Boat at Harihareshwar Jetty at 7.30 a.m.that took us all and our seven vehicles as well and took us across the estuary to Bankot. It was a sunny morning. At jetty, while waiting for Ferry, Scot, Abby and Pierre tried some spinning and bait casting, but there were no hits.
We reached the Beach and all 26 Anglers scattered along the Beach and selected their spot. The water looked good, however there were no strikes as expected. Soon Keith landed a small ‘Therapon Jarbua’ on squid bait and his father William too landed an ‘Electric Ray’ around 1 kg. Raju Patil caught his First ever Fish, again a small ‘Therapon Jarbua’. We learnt that Santosh caught and released two catfishes. Others had no strikes at all. The overall result was not encouraging and veryone packed up and returned for much needed Lunch at our Lodge.

We decided to try the rocks behind Temple in the evening session and after a brief rest headed for rocks at around 4.0 p.m. The high tide was at 10.00p.m. The group had few Bait Casters and others were doing Spinning. However, there were no hits to Spinning nor to baits. It was a great disappointment and by 7.00 p.m. most of the Anglers returned to our Lodge. There was a news that an Earthquake (Mild) occurred and was felt in Pune and Mumbai at around 4.30 p.m. So everyone concluded that earthquake was the reason for fish not feeding and chasing our lures.
But the Gloom vanished when Scot arrived in Lodge with a magnificient ‘Red Snapper’. Someone fetched a weighing scale and weighed the Fish. It weighed 4.0 Kg. Scot was showered with Greetings. Every one was so happy and spirits soared high! There was another surprise soon, when Neil arrived with another Red Snapper, though smaller than Scot’s. Soon the Cameras came out and the Lodge was lighted with Camera Flashes! Neil reported that within 30 minutes he hooked another two Groupers and landed them. He however took snaps and released them, each weighing about a kg. each.
Now the Camp atmosphere got changed and there was a solid ‘Turn Around’. Everybody went to sleep early, dreaming about Sunday morning session again on Rocks.
But the Weather Gods were against us and it rained continuously and heavily. So the early risers were again disappointed as it was still raining at 5.00 a.m in the morning. Abby and Scot were the first to leave at 5.40 a.m and they went to a new spot called ‘Head’. Myself, Neil, Sanju and Atul left at 6.00 a.m and went behind MTDC. Luckily the rains stopped this time.

When the first rays of the sun were visible, we started casting with lures. We shifted from one location to other from 6.00 a.m to 11.00 a.m , But no one of us had any hits. All type of lures were tried, but in vain. In the mean time, William m and his son Keith arrived and reported that William caught a small Bream on squid.
Abhijeet started from Behind temple and came near us. He had no strikes. He continued spinning with his ‘Fire Tiger’ Lure and soon he got a hit and he landed a nice Grouper of around 1.5 kg.
Vilas, in the meantime hooked a Grouper behind temple on his bait of Squid. It was around 1.00kg. he photographed it and then released it.
At 1.30 p.m we called it a Day and returned to Lodge for lunch and packed our tackle.
After Lunch, we hada ‘Prize Distribution Ceremony.
As announced already, we had three categories for Competition:
a) The Biggest catch.
b) The Maximum catch by an individual angler and
c) The Longest Cast.
However, we could not arrange the ‘Longest cast’ Tournament and therefore decided to award this Prize to an youngest Competitor among the participants.
The Prize Winners were:
Mr. Scot (World Fisher) for the Biggest Catch (4.0Kg.Red Snapper)
Mr. Neil ( Heliox65) for Maximum catch.
And Mr. Marcus from Austria for Youngest Competitor among all participants (Age: 25 Yrs.)
The Prizes were awarded by a Senior member, Mr. William mascarennas.
The last but not the least, the lucky individuals who were successful in catching were as under:
Vilas Rele: 1 Grouper ( Around 1 Kg)
William M: 1 Bream & 1 Sting Ray (Around 1 Kg each)
Abhijeet (Spoon Angler): 1 Grouper ( Around 1.5 Kg)
Balamama: 1 Grouper (Around 1 Kg)
Neil: 2 Groupers ( Around 1 Kg each0 & 1 MJ (Around 1 Kg)
Scot (World Fisher): 1 Red Snapper (4.0Kg) & 1 Finger Mark (Around 1 Kg)
The Competition ended with a Vote of Thanks to Organizers and Three Cheers for Indian Angler.com

I request those participants who have taken pics with their cameras to host their pics on Forum please.

I shall host the pics later, as I am facing some problem in hosting them now.

Regards,


Arun

Arun sahib very good report now for the pics congrats to all the winners and participants cheers

Congratulations to all the winners and also the participants.
Arun, a good report.
Angler Ali and the organizing team, good show.
Syd.

Arun
that was a very good report, good amount of stastics,facts & figures and the narration of the sequential events was very good, had it be with photographs it would have been wonderfull ! All the anglers who have taken the photographs pl up load them . ( i do wanted to join , but due to some unavoidable circumstances i could not) Chalo abhi photographs aur reports he dekh late hai...

Waiting for the photo's ! Wish i could have come, always next year i guess...

I have uploaded pictures in the Image gallery of the competition. Have a look at them.

Keith

As the official report and the results of competition are public now, let me take the opportunity to thank our forum INDIAN ANGLER for providing the opportunity to all these anglers to come together and enjoy quality time spend beside blue water in hope of catching a fish..

Also I would like to thank all the participants for taking time out to make the initiative taken by INDIAN ANGLER a big success.

I would also like to thank specially Mr. Santosh, Mr. Mohile and Mr. Abhijeet for there pro-active role in making this event a great success.

Last but not the least, Congratulation to the entire participant for great time they had despite very adverse condition and special congratulation to Mr. Scott, Mr. Niel and Mr. Marcus for winning the competition in different categories.

At the time of prize distribution, it was decided that this event should be organized on six monthly basis and Mr. Abhijeet, Mr. Niel and Mr. Nair have agreed that they will co-ordinate the next event.


Regards,

Ali.

I would like to say a big thank you to the organizers of the Competiton and ofcourse the Indian Angler website to make this a reality. It was my first ever experience fishing in a competition and I enjoyed every minute of it. Even though we did not have the ideal conditions for fishing, we were a great team of Anglers, from Professionals to a a first timer. It was a great chance to spend time with fellow Anglers - exchanging fishing stories , ideas and fishing locations and spots.

Hope the competition is held every six months in the future and we have more participants in the future ones to come.


Tight Lines

Keith

Few pictures taken by me:











Scot's Red Snapper



Neil's Red Snapper



Balamama with Abhi's (Spoon Angler) Grouper





Marcus with his trophy



Sanjay

Looks like you all had a great laugh even if the fishing was a bit hard.
I really must make the effort to join you guys on a future session at some point.

BTW. I now have a name for the "tigerfish" that I caught a couple of years ago but does anyone know the latin ?

Hi Sanjay,

Very nice pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Regards,


Arun

congrats to all the winners and the participants u guys braved the weather for you passion, nice pictures and kudos for the organizers of the event ,I hope you organize at least 3 of such events annually at a gap of every 4 months, I'll be waiting for next such event -- -LIONHEART

Great stuff guys & congrats to the winners.

Hats off to all you guys who made it a grand success. At these times, although everyone wants to win prizes, its bonding with fellow anglers, socialising & making friends that wins over any competition.

Well done & hope to catch up with some of you when I'm back in Bombay for my hols.

regards,
Keyur

Hi Ali,

As requested I am posting the pics from the image gallery

Mr. Mohile's welcome speech



Mr. William's Sting Ray



Scott's prize catch - MJ 4 kgs





The Biggest catch - Scott


Maximum number of catches - Neil


The youngest angler - Marcus


All of us



Hope these were the ones you requested for.


Keith

congratulations to all of you!! and to scott for that great mangrove jack!

Hello!

Big thanks to the organizers!

Was a really nice weekend, and finally i not caught a fish but won a trophy!

Here some more Pics:

regards,

Markus