INDIANANGLER

Ya can PM Peterpritam on this.
He has fished in the sunderbans before....huge barras are there.

Regards,
Saiki

Are there still lions and tigers?

Tigers

tigers... maneaters from birth...
salt water crocs.... king cobras.... sunderban is one amazing place....

Salt water corcs of sunderban are the largest in the world.

so the food chain is...
Lions/tigers/crocs----->Anglers------>fish

no lions in sunderbans mate...

they are exactly opposite in direction

Sorry for the delayed response.

The trip was successful, except for the Angling part of it. My tour revolved mostly around the inner parts of the forest area on the Indian side of the delta, which is covered heavily under the India Wildlife Act and conservation laws. Which is why, fishing of any type is considered illegal and almost at par with poaching. There are patrol boats moving around all the time keeping a watch on you.
However, if you stay off the forest limits, there are innumerable places where we can game for fish. There are multiple rivers and small tributaries, where the best way to do it is to hire boats /ferries for a day and park yourself in the middle of the river.
As some of you have pointed out, the best bait for these waters is definitely live prawns (difficult to get) or shrimps would be even better.
If you are planning to attempt serious angling, then the best time to cast would be post sunset till about midnight.

I'd be putting up a details in the Trip Report section.
Thanks

Arish ... that youtube video is not that of a Sunderban Tiger. Its a famous old video of a Tiger attack in Kaziranga National Park in Assam.
P.S. notice the topography in the video, its wet grasslands, which is not possible to grow in the silted mudlands of Sundarban.

@mken,

sunderban tigers are known to take humans since the time when there was enough forest and the prey base. its just that when carnivores are staying in such conditions they tend to eat anything that they can overpower; there are records of tigers eating crabs and fishes on regular basis and some times salties too...
my understanding on man eating is, monkeys are natural prey of tigers, the people staying in jungles are so poor that they don't afford clothing, small kids when playing in nearby forests resemble the monkeys and mistaken by tigers.... and once they understand humans are far more easier to kill; it becomes their regular diet, especially to female tigers who have cubs to feed...
i may be wrong but for now i firmly believe this..

regards,

Dr. Prasad

May be humans are better in taste than monkeys

this is supposed to be the bait topic but where is this thread heading

@Yancham where is the trip report????

@arish .. i am thinking the same.. where's the topic headed to ? and the trip report will be out soon ... was caught up with loads of work at office ..

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"Apologies again but please try and understand the difference. Jeremy Wade is making a lot of money with his 'River Monsters' series using the same sensational term. According to him every large cat fish is a man eater and so is every little piranha. See one of these episodes and you will see how funny and wrong it can be to just label an animal as a man eater."

Ken.... right on man. That guy is such a douchebag !!! I was watching a new show of his, where is trying to figure if Snakeheads eat people !! Better watch it the next time at Brindavas !!! But its fun watching the fishing i must admit

I think his next film is about the Testicle Eating Trout from Himachal Pradesh. It starts: Wading anglers beware, for this particular lake is home to some very deadly fish, Salmo Castratus commonly known as the Ball Eating Trout....

awesome scientific name Bobby !!! haha... CASTRATUS. And to top it, for a change he should be bitten by one of his 'MONSTERS' while filming

P.S - apologies for contributing to taking this thread to nowhere it was intended for.

Back to the Sunderbans and the rawas folk....s