INDIANANGLER

O brothers of the angle,

Feast thine eyes on some righteous pahari waters...

Sorry, no big fish but actually, I haven't picked up the spin rods at all this season, the fly hatches were so mad. Refurbished my old fly rod and put to good use along with some new flies. Pretty much everything worked. So in two sessions, total 9 days, 62 mahseer, 6 Indian trout. All on the fly. 8 mahseer on dry fly. Best 8lbs on the Hellgrammite. One fish broke my17lb striper tippet, it had a stonefly nymph at the end. One other fish, very large (gillie says 8-9kgs) got off a Rogan's Gadget after a 40 minute tussle. 6 other fish fell to it later as did a 5" chilwa and an Indian trout.

And oh, the sunrises were something else....


Fast water, single handed 6wt rod


Ditto


They'll always surprise you. 20 minutes, 4lbs on a Woolly Bugger.


The Holy Grail of flyfishing- mahseer on a dry fly. To me, when flyfishing, size does not matter. Maybe later....


Good fly water. Amazing evenings, except for the blithering wind...


Another fishing sunrise.


8lbs on a chartreuse Clouser Deep Minnow.


Another gratuitious flyfishing 'mood photo'.


Someone asked about how Bongs cast with a reel not designed for casting (one of the gearless centrepin jobs). The method's been described in other posts by Owen, GRC and Co., but the moment I love is above- total Tai-Chi and Zen all rolled into one. That's a very good friend in the pic- Suprio. Stillwater carpman, gentleman and now, a convert to river fishing for mahseer. I've asked him to join IA.

Anyhow, hope I haven't clogged up the bandwidth, enjoy the eyecandy.
Cheers,

Vedan

Fantastic pics bro.. where is this ???? look s gr8.
Cheers!!!
M

As always, impressive!

Bops

Good job Vedan....!!! You surely had a nice time out there...!!!

Nice pics...

There is not much of fly-fishing discussions happening in IA. May be you can tell us more about it in a separate thread.

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Great Job Vedan

Nice pictures and the fly fishing looks great ... like Sree says " where is this place "

Hi Vedan, Missed you last week...I had a bit of fun too, am posting later.Tight lines and here's to your Holy grail.
Best
Axx

Hi Vedan,

Nice pictures but got to ask, when are you getting back to meditation?

Regards,

Bobby

Hey Vedan ,, ive got luck like amitabh in sholay ... apoo dosent stand a chance ... ill keep you updated ... will do some research and see what Indian coastal fish take fly .. then u n me will throw the damn fluffs at the fish and see what happens .... if nothing .. we will chill and catch a suntan

Hi vedan,

Wow!!. The pictures stirred up old memories, eternal questions, and the travel bugs. Know where I would be next year.


Tight Lines,

Jeen

Fred- if Apoo doesn't open season for us, i'm with you. I won't mind tussling with an Amjad sized grouper trying to do a thakur on my arms...
Bobby- there's this south african friend of mine who's managed to convince me the thing to do are GTs on a fly off the surf. His mates bag travallys in the 60-80lb class out there, wonder if there's anything left out here. Yeah, man, barras sound exciting, too.
Jeen, lemme guess....
Makarand- out on the kaveri, I doubt if you'll be able to land a big one without a boat/coracle, especially on fly gear. I'm investing in a double handed salmon rod as I've only just learnt how to Spey cast and having bagged fish on a single handed rod, I must say a dhr is more comfy to fight with. Paul Boote mentions a 42lb mahseer from the kaveri. Didn't mention the rod shr or dhr but he took it on a tube fly. Ummmm... I don't know about the 'readily' bit re the Ramganga mahseer. I think if you stick the right fly in the right place at the right pace, fish will take if they're there.
The flies I used were (among the known patterns)- Clouser Deep minnow (chartreuse), Rogan's Gadget (size8 ls), Willie Gunn (tube), Garry Dog (tube), Ally's Shrimp (tube, dyed deep green) assorted beadhead nymphs (sizes 8-12), big Muddlers (size 1, 2/0), assorted Viva patterns. A friend dropped off some huge sea trout skaters he ties himself. Scored one 4lb job on a full moon, floating line. Other fish fell to some flies I tie myself- hellgrammites, dragonfly nymphs and small stonefly jobs.
I used a floating line at night/evenings and ultra fast sink in rapids and deep pools.

Cheers

V.

I am not a good fly fisherman, not by a long shot, but I do give it a whirl from time to time in Salt Water only.

These are a few flies I carry with me all over the place rest are in India. And also a couple of reels. The Penn is a beauty.