INDIANANGLER

Mix it with cotton wool..

really?

I have seen that if you knead the atta well then you don't have to boil it. In fact sometimes it gets to hard and the hook does not come out when you strike. (You get the whole bait back).

We use condensed milk and atta (1 tin to a kg aprx), banana and atta (works well) and barfi and atta.

For the smelly stuff hing, haldi, garlic, chicken stock kneaded in is pretty cool.

Having watched the man friday at home doing the hard work I have figured out a few simple points. ADD water very slowly and sparingly. Put a lot of muscle in the kneading. And don't leave the atta in the fridge or water will condense on it later and make it to soggy.

I have done this & it works

hi santosh good you are from mumbai me too pls let me know where and what time you go for fishing also what difficulties you face while fishing science how long time you have started fishing.

best regards ....

aasif s

Thats great Mahaseeken, but would it work in heavily fished lakes where the fish have gone really clever. People normally cover the hook with the bait or the fish wont take it. What do you say?
Cheers
Sualeh

Hi Sualeh,

From what I have read the hair rig was invented to tackle heavily fished areas where the fish were much smarter then they normally are. (it's turtles that are dumb). The hair allows the fish to take in the bait with out feeling the hook which is much smaller than normally used, 10, 12, even 14s. A dead/fixed bolt on the line serves as the "jatka" and the exposed hook gets stuck. Alternatively a free line is also used but then the angler has to be very alert. Sometimes the hooking happens when the fish blows out the bait. Again only and exposed could do this.

Pretty clever little rig. The two hook setup that Bops posted is a good innovation to it. But let the fish decide if it really that smart a trick.

cheers

Thanks Mahaseerken, now its understood.
Cheers
Sualeh

Thanx for tips guys!

Just wonderning isn't this cotton thing harmfull to fish? (if its not gonna go to your kitchen)

2nd thing, why boilies are not in use or atleast not that popular as regular local baits (atta, chemical, ragi etc) in India and Pakistan?

any comments?

BTY Sauleh, where are you fishing these days? if rawal lake what do you use there?

ooooooops too many question....

Fishman


it was "Narali Dam"

Agree with tim and rod&reel,
A loaf crustless bread+ honey, vanilla, 1 kela and sugar syrup from rasgullas, and anywhere becomes a fishing paradise! ken, that trip to the jodh where you and sanjay were hauling out carp like it was going out of style? this was all i could find and whip up as hook bait at 11pm the previous night!Enjoy
Best
Axx

saiki .....the mixture u mentioned is good bait for rohu and mrigal . wht about catla? and if u know bait for chital ...plz share with us....coz i find these most elusive ones...!!!

Rod&reel, a word of advice-get off the sms mode please?would prefer plain jane ENGLISH.

ROD n Reel,

Chital or Mohi as we call them are great predators. Use live chilwa, frogs and plugs.

Narora, near Aligarh, was a great place for them. Now unfortunately the UP mafia has finished them off.

sorry guys for my bad english. i didn't realise i was using sms language. this is what happens when you use too much of cellphone....!!!

thanks Mahaseerken , i have been trying to catch these fish for so many months, infact i tried frogs and snales ....but somehow i didn't get any strike...may be i was just little unlucky...... i was beginning to doubt my baits .

Chitala should take spoons used for great white sheat-fish (Wallago attu).

Hi,
am not much of a bait angler but on the recent trip used Berkley power bait strawberry mixed with atta and then boiled. Result in 1,1/2 days of fishing - Rohu -6, Khagga(bull dog catfish type) -2 , Turtles -5,Tengra -1. Cheese spread mixed with atta also worked but we got only 1 fish on that for a dog decided to make a meal of this combination.
We were on the Beas and that area is regularly fished and fish are shy.
Cheers
Hamdhingra

What happened to the Turtles?

I have eaten Turtles, they are quite good...

Threw them(turtles) back.There was a farmer on whose land we camped and I had asked his son if he wanted to keep an odd one - to which he said no.His father a very old man came in the next day and asked for the same .They call them "Pret" -that bhoot pret type. Anyway we had no turtles but I did give him 2 rohu's .We had trampled some of his seedlings as also polished off some of his moolies.
Cheers
Hamdhingra