INDIANANGLER

Greetings,

The beach fishing in Chennai is about to close for the season as the river mouth was getting closed naturally as I saw.
Me and Binu went there for some GT fishing, but the surf was shallow due to changing sand structures. I was able to see big GTs tearing up bait at some distance out of reach. We were casting metals and poppers for a while until I saw some action right at the bottom of our feet in the wash. We then switched to 7" Cotton Cordel Red Fin swimmer.

After a few casts I had a strike and a bent rod. After the fish took some 15 feet of line with a decent drag, I tightened the drag to tire him, thinking it was a GT. Last time I hooked a GT, most of my line was gone in seconds before I even realised. But now after tightening the drag, the fish almost stoppped and I thought that was a barracuda. Since this happened in the wash, I beached the fish in the next wave and it turns out to be a barramundi in the 8 to 9 pound range.

This fish in almost gold colour was one of the most beautiful fish I have seen in the ocean. Pics (from Binu's cell phone) will be uploaded on Monday.

Thanks,
Maruthu

Congrats Marathu, The Barramundi is a very special fish..great eating too

Here are a couple of pics of the 4' wide river mouth today.
Catfish were trying to make it into the ocean before the mouth closed.

Maruthu

Hi Maruthu, Great catch mate.And as Bobby mentioned earlier, The Barramundi is indeed a very special fish.Enjoy....Cheers,Madhur.

PS. Will be eagerly waiting for the pics.

Here we go with a pic

Great Catch Guys

good catch, what was the line strength and reel used?

Great catch. You keep on doing it man. Nice fish and good report. Keep it up.
Regards,

Ali..

Thanks everyone for the comments. I was so exited once I realised that it was a barramundi



I was using a Shimano Stradic 5000 reel with 150 yards of 30 lb power pro with some amount of 20# mono backing. Rod was an 8' tica dolphin surf spinning rod. This set up held up well for some decent fish (upto 18 pound GT) from the beach (No rocks nearby).

Maruthu

great barra..
most ppl go running after them, looks like u had one coming after you!
lol

thats a beautiful fish man,congrats, looks like the fish really are getting to like you man, the way they come after you

Nice fish!

Superb fish, just watch out for them razor sharp gill plates!

thats a nice barramundi... did it give any aerial jumps????

Amazing catch
and indeed its a very beautiful fish....
keep them coming

Nice catch

Very beautiful barramundi :)

Thanks everyone for the comments.



Tathagata, it was landed within 10 seconds. So I think there was no time for the fish to do any tailwalks

Maruthu

The last Barra I got will be be on my dinner plate this evening.

MARKET ??????

No mate, was in the deep freeze since I got back, forgot I had it there

Finished some of it now, was superb...

Congrats, Maruthu! Great fish!

My favorite fish in indian water

Regards,

Marurth, the river that you are talking about in chennai is the one at besantnagar broken bridge, am i right in saying that or is it some other place.

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Hello,

This river is in kovalam which is on the way to mahabalipuram.
River mouth is still closed. Eagerly waiting for river mouth to open. Excepting this next month.

Mani

Do u guys have ever tried fishing at besant nagar chennai.

Hey mate,
have tried at Besant Nagar long back and caught only catfishes.
Try Fishing harbor or Kovalam, those are some better locations.

Regards,
Binu

Binu, Thanks for that info Dude.