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Sandip,
You asked a very clear question. Sure, Santosh gave a very matured answer but then how could you have controlled the maturity of others who may have answered your question, maybe not that wisely but still, correctly?
Please do not take this offensively. My congratulations to your friend Shailesh.
Regards,
Sanjay

Thank you Sanjay...There is nothing in your writing that you should feel offensive according to me.

There is nothing to be controlled - we can only control our self. And who are we to say what is correct or what is wrong - it’s all relative. Best way would be to simply ignore – Probably that would be my future arm.

Buddy, written communication mostly leads to a wrong perception and left room for assumptions which may or may not be correct from user perspective.


Thanks,
Sandip

Hi Sandeep,

Congrats for this nice catch, The Shailesh refered here is the same guy you introduced me and Maneesh at Marve the other day. convey my congratulations to him also and hope the similarity in our names gets me some good luck.

Regards,
Shailesh Sharma

Thank you Shailesh. Yes, he is the same guy...I am very sure that you will have your chance soon...

Wish you many Bara's sooner...All the best.

Thanks,
Sandip

Last month, I went for vacation in Kerala and managed to spend 3 half days for fishing. Tried bottom and float fishing using very basic rigs. Caught lots of Perlspots and cats.
Fishes were released back to where they came from. Few small and beautiful fishes from Chalakudy could not survive due to bad injury. Request you all to ID few species below -

Also tried spinning in river Chalakudy with no luck for Mahseer - So dream remains dream. Would love to visit again. While travelling in Munnar, found that
there would be huge potential for good carps and murrels in Mattupati Dam - If someone is planning for a Munnar trip can surely try there.





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Caught several Rohu and Talapia's from lakes nearby Mumbai - (Have experienced that a feeder with a hair rig works great for Rohu as well) -




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Thanks for your time,
Sandip

beautiful pics sandip... Hope you had lots of fun in gods own country... I am going this month for my share....
the last pic is tilapia i think... Better leave it to the experts...

Thank you Raka - I had wonderful 6 days there. Yes, last pics is of Talapia for sure.

congrats on your catches, keep it up

Good catches sandip. What was the bait u had used for pearlspots?

Thank you michaelaga and Angling4Fun...

@ Angling4Fun - Very simple bait was used for perlspots - a small
piece of slice bread should cover the hook entirely - same as
Talapia. The only challenge was the small fishes were taking the
bait most of the time.

Great catch. The small one are beautiful. Congrats for the catch.

nice variety of fish u caught in this trip..

Thanks for sharing info and photos.

Regards - Vinod

Pretty catches Sandip!The first fish in question is a suncatfish .The fish with the red and black streak on the tail belong to species Puntius mahecola.

Thank you Apoo and Vinod...

@ RJM - Thank you for identifying the fishes. Punti was also my guess.

Nice pictures Sandip.
Especially the Pearlspot.

Ravi