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Here are some of the Pics of of the Weekend trip to Minchehbele

Sorry for the Delay guys, had to do a lot of editing as the Pic's were of very high resolution,

Reservoir from the Top of the Dam




Riaz explaning His strategy



Fishermen checking their nets



Settings Up



Got the First catch within 10min



Rohu


Riaz's Double hook trap



The three Muskeeters



Reeling in the Second catch within 7 min of the 1st one



Showing off his catch









True Expert of catching Tilapia, matter of fact he had caught more fishes than me ,Pran & Prakash put together.



Pran Showing off his catch...


& thats my catch



& thats Prakash with his






Desperatly trying to escape from the Noon heat



Winding up



View if the reserviour in the Evening



An Egret stalking

Good show Guys.....!!!!
Nice pics....!!!
Will plan up for a trip sometime later, Jude what say?
Are there bigger fishes in there? Any one tried for marrel?

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count me in for the next trip guys...!!

Gr8 going.. i m sure u guys had good fun..

Viper - good job catch man - what was the bait you used?? - Please do share as i haven't caught anything there with earthworms (and im sure im not the only one to say that )

Really nice photo story. Looks like you had a great time.

Good job guys-Riaz is the man!
Good to see the bang gang in action...
Best
Axx

Guys! those photos tell a tale of a trip to remember years down the track.
I loved the photo of the fishermen pulling in their net,we voted that one as
one good enough to be published in national geographic magazine.
the extension to the umbrella showed some heat induced innovation !
down these parts its goggles , shorts, thongs and fosters! to cool off.
we never learn!
cheers!
Peter from downunder.

Susheel

We did catch all the Tilapia using earthworm,....provided if u know the right place to fish for them,(Thanks to Riaz)

Ask any of the guys ,the lake is full of them ,were getting bites for every cast,even inches from the shore,..Pran tried his hands on spinners for Murral's...but didn't have any luck,

Those tilapia can be caught using light line and size 0 spinners.

Nice pics guys, looks like you had tons of fun.

Bops,

Yeah, Tilapia love spinners. Once while I wasnt having much luck coarse fishing with atta I took out a spinning rod and started casting with a no.3 Mepps. I didnt really expect to catch anything but the line went tight and I was into something that put up a decent fight. It was a tilapia of over a pound. I was surprised that it actually took a no.3 spinner.

Apparantly they like soft plastics too.

Really nice pics. Cant say anything more.

Cheers,
Apoo

Awesome pics ...

And looks like a picnic...

U guys must have had a ball

I could identify Riaz, Pran, Viper, Prakash and the egret ... who's the kid

Gavin,check out Riaz'z twin hook ...

Guys, this place looks good...we gotta hit it soon.

Jude

Viper - IF u can draw out a rough map of where the best spot is then that will be good -

Hey Riaz -- Checked out your hook set up.. Really good.. The size of the hooks are also perfect for rohu, mrigals and khalbouse..

Great going.. Looks like I have to apply for membership with the M-Gang.. I hope you dont have any crazy initiation ceremony like the "Pumpers"

Hi
gav a ustad in our team wow
regards
riaz

Hey Riaz.. Am no ustad mate.. Just plain lucky !!!
But really liking spot at M'bele.. If u keep fishing from one spot and continue groundbaiting, am sure that in no time you will be cradling a monster rohu once again... All the best !!

An overview of the manchinbele reservoir, courtesy Google Earth.

Pic below shows the Dam wall.



Overview of Manchinbele reservoir



Inflow into the Manchinbele reservoir from TG Halli Dam and elsewhere. This is the end opposite to the dam wall.




Location of manchinbele wrt Bangalore

Nice map dear i see the place where i caught my 1st rahu
re4gards
riaz

Hi gav as said hope one fine day hooking the biggies will come true

dear yet have no luck for catla and catlauge
prescribe some nice effective ground bait and hook bait pls
regards
riaz

Will PM you the details mate....

Gav,

another home away from home....Manchinbele ...

And no Owen with his size 12 when we use the double hooks

Thy're lookin for an enforcer in G E Money's Blr branch.

You game

Jude

How far is the branch from the Good Spots

Gav, you can run, but you cant hide from the pump house gang!
Did you tell the anglers that you are an international pinup boy now ? :)

Where am I to run ?? In the North, you have the Pumpers.. In the South, you have the Bangers and the M-Gang.. And if you go west, you have Fred !!

Caught between Crocodile rock and a hard place

I dont think Fred has a size 12 shoe
Anyway, here's looking forward to seeing the lo9rd high enforcer soon.We must do the pumphouse circuit...

Hey Carl.. I use different size hooks depending on the fish that am going after..

For rohu,Khalbouse and mrigals, I use size 10 or 12..
For catlas, I use a size 6 or 8..

The funny part is that i caught my biggest catla of 14kgs on a size 10 hook

The hooks u see in Riaz's pics are perfect for rohu, khalbouse and mrigals..

Thanks Gavin.

No problemo Amigo....

Pran/Riaz?viper,
You guys planning to explore Kanva too?
Best
Axx

On saturday Night Riaz Bhai & Prakash Bhai had planned a trip to Minchehbele ,,invited me too,immeditely messaged My Manager that Iam Down with High Fever & will not come for the shift, as i work on sunday also (mon & tue weekly off)

Early morning on Sunday had Me & Prakash & two of his friends from Bengal, reached Riaz Bhai's plc to collect the tackle since he infomred us that some Business meeting had come up at the last momemt,man we were disappointed to hear that,but he encouraged us to carry on & wished us best of Luck,with heavy heart we hit the mysore road,-& then took the turn to Minchehbele
,had good roads being laid there so we zoomed & reached in no time,water level was risen considerbly. ground baited the area & started casting ,no bites ,tried for tilaphias ,no go ,tried the same till 2 in the afternoon,again no Bites,could see some Big spalshes near the baited area,then tried ground bating near the pump house after after that seems that our prayers have been answered,were getting Bites on every cast ,could hear the reels screem for a sec or two,no hookups,seems like fishes were teasing us & running away with our baits,

then prakash lost patience & yanked the line the moment the line moved,got small Rohu of 250gm,revived & released after taking snaps,by the end of the day,had caught 3 small Rohus in between 250-300gm,all revived & released to be caught again when it can attains gives some good fight

and also met some fellow anglers from Hybd & also IA new arriver Jose who were spinning with No luck,

any way here's some of the snaps.


Prakash with the First Rohu of the Day



Me with the last one of the day



Beating the Heat



Retervival


Sunset

Great going people! Nice pics. Can see that you had a blast. It's not the size that matters.

by the way, was it a good fight! hahahahahaha

Dont know how i missed this thread. Great pics on an excellent location and very well presented indeed. Thanks Mken.

As for Talapias, they are there to be caught and anyone who cant catch a talapia should think of some other hobby. In one of the posts i mentioned that my sons caught more than 50 talapias in an hour using dry flies. we have been catching talapias on roti, malberies, boiled potatoes, earthworms, spinners, dry flies and even shiny silver hooks without a bait. A very tasty fish.

Its a great sight seeing the three musketeers entering the arena fully armed. I dont know how comfortable you feel with these big two piece rods? Due to carriage problems, i have now converted to travel/telescopic rods which fit into my ruck sack that i wear on my back. I have been catching fish upto 25 lbs with these travel rods though i still have a number of two piece rods of various sizes. If one is going for large size mahseer or goonch than one really needs to carry a strong two/three piece rod. With portable luggage, one can move around the water instead of sitting at one place. That goes very well with lure fishing which i am more fond of. But again, its a matter of personal style and liking.
Thanks for sharing the pics.
Regards
Sualeh

hey Viper and Prakash bahi
U guys having fun out there.
Miss u guys!!!
TC
Cheers!!!
M

Good show guys! Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Yaj.