INDIANANGLER

Rustam,

Am still on the Left Coast but here are some early attempts at spinners. First one is a Mepps knock-off (#5 dressed silver squirrel tail) above the real thing. Second is of various experimental Maral Magnets.

Hi Mm,

Thanks a ton for the pics.

Just wondering...do they also double up as Christmas decorations?

Just what i was thinking !

Wow, thats quite a collection.Is it normal contents of a tackle box?
Senor MM, used your surgical glove suggestion...cut up thin ribbons , version 1.1 has been interspersed with finely cut 'metallic-ised' polythene curently in vogue for gift wrap,one side silver, other side red.
if I dont get a bite, may have to inscribe it in braille!!
In touch with Rohit(perazzi) for a trip,lets see what comes out of it.
Best
Axx

Hi Asif ,

Spoke with Pat this morn and told him that we ( you / self ) wud love to join in fr the next fishing trip.

Pat said that he keeps going to Chandi ( Chandigarh ) pretty often and goes fishing thereabouts with his friends.

Hopefully Pat shall invite us for the next outing.

Cheers Rohit.

Eljefe/Rustam,

I have posted a rather long winded description of the Hyderabadi style of fishing in the Carp fishing section.

The reason is that the style of fishing using a Buffalo Horn rod was developed in Hyderabad specifically for Carp fishing and any other fish caught on this rod is purely by chance.

Hope it does not bore you guys.

Cheers,

Cauvery Cowboy

MM,
Ah, the original man with the horn-Where's miles davis when you need him?
Great, I can do a fair imitation of your method-so, I still have my secret weapon-evil cackle.
Lets see what Marc has in for us...thought I had misheard when this was first mentioned-I did tell the speaker about my prowess with (non) fishing and photographing semi finished lures, but he insisted on carrying on.I lost interest and moved on as he would definitely be DUI in a few min
Thanks
Axx

Yes, I've also heard the "freshwater shark" moniker. This is applied to the patan or walleye in Hyderabad. The only thing it has similar to a shark is the colour of it's skin. I have caught both shark in the Pacific and this walleye in the Cauvery and there ain't a quark (or boson, if you like) of similarity. You will have discovered that hyperbole is almost mandatory in fishing lore. Baron Munchausen was a green amateur by contrast.

There is one snakehead website that shows a flat fish (tilapia?) bitten clean in half allegedly by a snakehead. This, I presume, is intended to give the viewer the impression that snakeheads (maral) are vicious attackers with an array of incisor teeth capable of shearing flesh. Danger, danger, danger. Let's book a trip Muffy, so we can corral this horrible monster. What a joke. Maral have caniniform teeth designed for gripping (like crocs) slippery prey. But this is boring so let's assign them attributes to make them piranha-like. Did you read the book by Kenneth "I-never-fib" Anderson "The Malicious Mauling Maral of Mekadat"? Gripping.

Caveat emptor, much more than a grain of salt is required.

Mm

MM,
Read about walleye in various catalogues(the sole source of my fishing knowledge until i got here ) besides a dummy's guide to fishing type book-great read.
So Wall eye are indigenous to India too? Wall eye as in description of a nag?
Any book on indian Fish-easy ID or something like that?

Finished all of KA's books while in school, visited his house and met his son-Don, must have been in 77-78. Right now I have a book of his lying around-not the more popular 9 maneaters and 1 rogue or black panthers of sivanapally, but one of the lesser known ones.cant remember the name.
Very apt, your description of the book and maral teeth-'gripping'.. The 'ferocity' of a maral i hope to see when I catch one!Right now ,I'm the one gnashing my teeth at the lack of fishing action.

What shark was this in the pacific?

Going by the good baron's mention of using a 2 flyweight rod for all his action, including landing a 100 pound mahseer while visiting India, it is obvious -he was an avid angler


When I was a kid, heard a lot of fishing stories, where the size and stamina of the fish grew by the paragraph (pre - viagra days,snicker snicker)-hence the signature about ol werner and reality(kind of find it apt no digicam or Indian angler.com those days )

In the passing, a question-How do you guys hold the hook while tying a line on it? any instrumentation or hands-on? asking because need to have my hands relatively unpunctured-hi risk of handling infected persons at work,inspite of gloves.I know that must be pretty high on the 'funny question of the day' list, wot the 'ell, had to ask!!

Best
Axx

Rustam:
Walleye, wet rag, chappli meen...
I thought I had myself a walleye in the Hindon earlier today...encouraged by Dev(Indians-for-guns-dot-com) who was chaperoning my first 'cast the cast' session earlier today!
We had to cajole a local kid to wade in and retrieve my treble from a-biggish carpet...
Well, MM, tied a blood knot , duly wet with saliva and it held
Tied a couple of quick hooks with uni's and they held-no instrumentation(!)
So things are working out-no more talk of pussying around with instrumentation for hook tying!
Between Dev and me, did not transfix each other, or the dozen onlookers, once-had a couple of close calls though...had a comment like -Yeh to padhe likhe machal hare dikhte hain-make my day!
This angling/fishing is a great thing-glad I'm in , however late...
Best
Axx

Mr. Bana,
Here are some lures I made a couple of years ago that may come in handy at your Forbes lake. With all those weeds, a topwater may be just the ticket. I will be there later this year to give them a spin.

CC, just above 10 o'clock, in The Baci box, you can see the purple anodized tubes from which I fashioned the bushing (re. Megabass) on which you cast aspersions.

Mm

Hi Mm my wife says she wouldn't mind a pair for her ears.
Owen

MM: those were lures from two years ago. Practically obsolete. The latest devices, currently undergoing refinement, are designed to make the maral nation go get their imperial leader.

Owen: The Mrs. is welcome to a pair. Just don't get too romantic though. Remember, I use Matzuo trebles.

Eljefe: That thing is just a skissors. If you want to see real knives I'll have to PM you with pictures. Don't want to bore the gentle readers of this august forum. Or invoke the wrath of the explosively volatile Mr. Pattada.

Mm