INDIANANGLER

This is our second visit to Lakshadweep. As expected the fishing was good with fewer but bigger fish caught. What we did different was to to pop deeper waters and use bigger lures.
Did experience reasonably good weather with only one day lost to bad weather. The trip lasted 1 week.
Highlights among many included younger son Jinu going overboard !! Rahul losing a monster of a GT ( probably our dream fish ) at the boat when the tail hook slipped out of the split ring !! and yes jinu’s 127cm fork length GT .
The boys did most of the fishing while I Nursed my tennis elbow and entertained myself with light tackle reef fishing!
we did a bit of jigging with poor results due to lack of a fish finder and blind dropping was hard work.
The local fisher men were complaining that the tuna seemed to have changed their traditional route and running this year far away from the island group. We also noticed acres of dead corral which was quite worrying.
Another disturbing news was that a French guy was in the area a month ago to set up a GT popping operation which is cool, but the shocking part was that he caught about 15 gts In three days gaffed the fish and sold the fish to the local resort!!



Embarrasing!

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Dressed to kill





wepons of Mass destruction

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Captian Perfect



Work begins




Never get tired of this!



Ist fish of the trip



Rahul's Turn



Hammer Head



Jinu gets his share



And his fish



More pics tomorrow

jeen

Great as usual. Congratulations to all of you.

The news about the dead Coral and the guy selling fishes in name of sport fishing is really sickening.

Keep it up and thanks for sharing.

Regards,

Ali..

Wow, again.
Ravi

great pictures ! if the acres of dead corral (yes quite worrying ) has some connection with the devastating Tusnamai ?

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more to follow

cheers,

Jeen

Nice Pictures

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Cheers,

Jeen

Man, going through your post is like reading a beautiful encyclopedia book or something. A picture truly says a thousand words. Hope to do something like this someday!

What else can a Angler hope for.....Fish ....Fish.......Fish...................A fishing Competition in Lakshadeep ........Thats gonna throw some Monster fish up......! Great going Jeen and thanks for sharing.

Great Stuff Jeen...

Unbelievable that guy...if you get some more details like his name and operation, it would be nice to post it here and make people aware of this unscrupulous character.

very nice catches and variety of poppers....

Happy New Year Guys!

Bobby, I have got his name but .... Well ,you'll know when he starts advertising. I learned he's also tlaking to Akshay in the Andamans to extend his operation and am sure Akshay would kick his a....

Sanjay, the tsunami did not effect this region looks more like the El Nino / global warming.


Jeen

Duh,

Tell me one thing? Do you have pictures of you guys catching dory snappers or a fish that probably weighs a KG or two? Or do you have some sort of a charm that attracts these oversize blown up fishes? And what is your tackle like Electric poles with wires tied. You catch these big ones and you keep me wondering more over you keep me motivated (and jealous as well)

Really appreciate your post and the beautiful images.

Dead corals are a big worry, I am a big fan of Sir David Attenborough and watched most of his docu's. They are simply amazing. Latest what I have heard is he is not doing any docu's as he witnessed the changes in places where he had filmed his previous docu's and they were devastating.

Well GOD Bless the world. Have a good year ahead.

DeZZ

Hi Jeen,

Speechless as usual. Amazing fish caught. What else can I say? Thnks for sharing the pics and happy fishing. Wish u and everyone at home a very happy new year with lotsa huge monster GT's, lot more unstoppables and some more backaches.

Spoonangler.

Brought tears to my eyes. Fantastic going Jeen. Made my new year resolution stronger.

Simply a fantastic fishing trip that an angler would love to take!

Amazing fishing Jeen... congrats to you & the boys. Wish you a very happy new year & some record GT's.

All the other pictures are equally awe inspiring . Congratulations once again.

The fifth picture (First post) is interesting Jeen. I shudder to think that what will happen in case the line is broken or the hook comes out at this particular moment. You are bending at an dangerous angle man….

Regards,

Ali.

Yes Ali,



In spite of all your faith in n your knots and terminal tackle the hook can pull out or line cut on the reef. The result can be bad!.Mostly you will have somebody standing behind you to break your fall if it happens. However in this case Rahul had the camera and jinu was busy watching something else on the water!!

Jeen

Hi Jeen..
Thanks for reply and New year wish. wishing you and all fellow anglers a very happy new year. Infact the second instalment of your amazing photograps (a dream for any angler) were really worth New Year greetings !

Great Catches as usual Jeen. Nice pictures for motivation.

I wish you great fishing years ahead.

congrats Jeen that some awesome fishing and some very nice picture specially the sunset one I wish you and boys a very happy and fishy year

As usual, you guys rock. Congrats for the great catches. And a warm new year wish too.

i am speechless..

am So no words from me..... ...wud take some days for me to come out of it.

Awesome stuff Jeen (like always),

All your posts leave me speechless. Do let me know when the adoption papers are ready.

Happy NY to everyone on IA.

regards,
Keyur

Happy New Year Keyur.

Thanks for the comments. Adoption:- any time!

Jeen

Just photocopy them and keep handy, there are more of us who want to join the family-Jeen.
Great going boys.

Jeen,

I am fan of your fishing, May god bless me with some catches as yours some day.

Cheers!!!
Mayur

congratulations to you sir and rahul and jinu. you guys are amazing