INDIANANGLER

on my recent trip to Dubai, i saw fishing gear at a local mall, and suddenly got very interested in it, researched on the net and picked myself a shakespeare ugly stick 6 ft, an eagle claw small reel and a mitchell evoX 600 reel.

to my wife's glaring eyes, i said i will use this stuff for sure and hence frantically looked for some fishing activity in India, and to my surprise found all of ya here. boy! was i relieved? feels good to be here.

i have fished before, using a wire and hook and some weight with small shrimps as bait in my village creek when i was a kid. i have to my record three fish caught on that one eventful day. i still remember the sheer joy of pulling the fish out of water and want to do it all over again.

that said i am a novice and don't know how to use the rod and reel and all the other stuff that i have got.

help and some company over the coming weekends needed.



thank you for having me here.
Vaibhav

Hi Vaibhav,

Welcome to IA.

Santosh

Welcome to IA Vaibhav

plenty of pune anglers on this forum and I am sure they will help you hook all that swims underwater
Cheers

__________________________________
The only fever that I always carry ---> Fishing Fever

Welcome to IA Vaibhav. As lionheart says, there are plenty of angles in Pune.

Looking forward for a Pune meet.

Regards,
Humaid

Welcome!

How bout this weekend! all Pune anglers can meetup at Jagtap Dairy, reason is we might aswell catch the action there while it lasts, fishes being caught are tilapia, cats and peacock eels.

If all the other anglers from pune end up there, there will still be some room left at some spots.

If we're early then we get the place there.

Lets all start the pms and make a plan!

Regards.

hey Vaibhav Welcome to IA

Happy fishing, welcome to IA.

thanks for the warm welcome guys.

the plan to meet over the weekend sounds great, but can we do it next weekend please. also can the experienced guys suggest some must have items other than the rod and the reel so that novices like me can fetch em well in advance?

for now i have

rod
reel
hooks (size 3 and 4)
weights
& swivels with a wire leader

what else do i need?

for bait i would have picked small shrimps, but don't know what works for freshwater.

Hi Vaibhav, welcome to the forum :)
Omesh, the plans sounds good, i'm definitely in

Ok this weekend and next is what we'll do hopefully! like I said all anglers from Pune can come and check the spot out!, Vaibhav, you've got everything you need, just the bait bit we can improvise to bread, aata, chicken lever and the ever famous gaandoool (earthworms) be prepared to dig a bit before we start casting!. rest all sounds good! I got humaid and Aitya's numbers and will be in touch with them on friday morning, pm me your number and will co ordiate with you too, will also let vipul know, sounds like a plan people, saturday early morning Jagtap dairy!

Welcome to IA