INDIANANGLER

Went for a 4 day fishing trip to Malvan last week stayed at this beautiful hotel on the Karli river where the food was as sweet as the people there just fell in love with this place, Fished a lot on the river and caught a few Jacks and one single Grouper, trolled around the islands but was not lucky just one big hit had set a heavy drag and still that bugger kept the reel screaming for 5 mins finally the 50lbs braid was cut on the rocks, on the last day before I left I trolled again in the Evening and after 2 hrs of trolling and puking inspite of all the avomine, I got a big hit on my Rapala-Magnum firetiger this guy really got the reel screaming and went into the rocks I stood there in the rocking boat waiting for him to come out by twitching the line and irritating him he finally came out and went for another run after that he gave up and I got him to the boat the entire fight lasted for 20 mins when the fish was coming to the boat I was expecting something huge but I was shocked to see this 5 kg fish man did that fish have power but I still don't know which was this fish guys please help me out with this, but overall even though I did not catch a lot of fish this experience was truly amazing and will surely return again after the rains when the fishing will be much better just as the locals told me.

Also a Big THANKS to Santosh for recommending the right Hotel, right People and the right Spots, Thanks again Buddy....



Heading out to sea





















Caught this crab with my bare hands in the estuary.





View from my hotel room.






In Attack Mode..


Daily morning breakfast



Please help me identify this fish

Nice pictures Dilip, The fish in the last pic is a blubberlip snapper.

I am happy to know you had fun..


Regards,

Santosh

Thanks Santosh, I thought as much its from the snapper family.

congrats mate,
thats an awesome fish ! man I'd love to catch that fatso. although I caught hundreds of them mostly in the range of 1-2kg, as santosh rightly said it is the blubberlip snapper or Kumbharu -local name in konkan
Great pictures Dilip especially the one which has upma,sheera, toasts and coffee very tempting

Thanks sayed, the food there was definitely very delicious...

Way to go Dilip.

Regards Siddharth

Dilip Zabardast :)

What is the name of the hotel??

Good catch and a good report as well.

Cheers mate
DeZZ

Thanks Siddharth and Dezz.

Dezz, I will pm you the name of the hotel,

regards

Congrats, Dilip. Good fishing. Super location.

Congrats Dilip,

Looks like you had good fun in sun.

Have you cooked the grouper? Thats an excellent table fish. Yummy white flesh.

keep Fishing.

Salmonmani

Hi Dilip
I was wondering why you were not responding to the thread "secret location". Now I Know, you found new secret location . Pl let me also know your secret location (i'm talking about the hotel yaar - PM me also)

Thanks Sailendra, Mani and sanjay well all the fishes were released except for the big jack and the blubberlip snapper which was given to the boat owner in appreciation of the extra boating time he game me when i did not catch anything,

Sanjay the I will send you a pm,

regards

Hi Dilip,

Congrats for the fish caught. Thnks for sharing the pics and happy fishing.

Spoonangler.

Thanks Abhi..

Hi Dilip,

Nice catch and thanks for sharing the pics.

Hi Dileep,

That's a beautiful place u been to.

Nice catch and thanks for sharing the pics

Hey Dilip,

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Saravanan

Dilip, pls give a thought to what we spoke on the phone.. :)

Will surely do Santosh.

Hi Dilip, nice to know your maiden trip to malvan was productive, in terms of both, fish and fun. thanx for sharing the pics and the experience. happy fishing....

Dilip
Glad you had had a nice time
Rgds
Ravi

Ravi, Freddie, Saravanan, Vijay and Apoo Thanks everyone for your comments,

Looks like you had a blast Dilip. Congratulations and wishing you many more such trips.

regards,

Ali.

Thanks Ali bhai, already looking forward to my next trip,

Nice fish Dilip, the fish there was another thread on the same fish just a short while ago asking for an ID..........

Thanks Bobby and yes just checked out that thread and gladly I wasn't the only one confused after catching this fish..

Quite a nice looking fish it is.

Thanks Bobby and I know you were just Informing me so its all good, by the way you have got Glen hooked on to those River2Sea poppers he is just desperate to get his hands on more of those.

Sorry Dilip, I had not read your message correctly when I made the post but after I did I took it off, did not realize you had read it in the interim. I am like a zombie, have had 4 very late nights drinking sessions in a row, so much that I have to resign to drinking gallons of Perrier afer 2:00 and have to go out again tonight, my clients are all in town and I have to entertain.

I will be going to Singapore and Indonesia next week or the following week I should find those lures there there ask Glen to message me with what he wants. I need to pick up a couple of spinning rods, my son broke his real expensive Japenese handcrafted rod a couple of weeks ago, belive me, when running the line through the guides. The tip just snapped off, never seen anything like it. The rod cost a small fortune. Consolation prize he landed a small cuda.

Man those Custom Japanese rods cost a bomb especially those deadly popping and jigging rods, I have forwarded your msg. to Glen by the way when you coming to India,

regards

Congrats amigo excellent trip and report keep them coming

Thanks Rajat...

santo is the fish could be the reef cod? remembering the fight i had in Ganpatipule i think when we lost the fish

Dilip,

In the second picture and the forth picture, is there a tent across the river.

Regards,

Ali.

Hi Ali,
No that is not a tent its a shack with a hay roof check out the zoomed in picture,

regards

Yes indeed,

Exactly my type of fishing place..

regards,

Ali.

That place is absolutely heaven, I could live in there for months,

regards

Great stuff Dilip.

Will catch up sometime. Have been slogging it out at work & not much time to hit the waters.

regards,
Keyur

Thanks Keyur and look forward to your next fishing report,

regards

wow great time angling in Malvan........
nice and thanx for shareing pics too

regards
Sid

Thanks Sid,

regards

Hi Dilip, Can you please guide me to this place..

Many thanks in advance

Raj

Hi Raj,

It would be nice to introduce yourself in the introduction section of the forum and I can tell you that you would get much more information than you actually needed.

Cheers,
Apoo

Hello Dilip,

I shall be grateful if you could also advise me of this place and the hotel via
pm - it is a dream location for someone based overseas (Australia) when
visiting home for fishing.

Kind regards,

Kingfish

Congrats, Nice catch,
Cheers!!!
Mayur

Hi,

Where was this? Can you provide me the details of the hotel and the boat guy,

Piece of advice mate, info like that is not given easily, sometimes, even not to those who say "please" and "thank you". And especially not to someone who's very first post is "Who?" and "Where?" without even doing us the courtesy an introduction.

Hi Guys !
nice photos and lovely big fat fellows you have caught

Am actually thinking of heading off to Pawana Dam or Malshet Dam for some lake fishing .

Can you guys guide me regarding Bait or Lures ? I have not fished in lakes since I did in Powai almost 23 years ago )

thanks

Congrats ...