 Iraq, mahseer and other stuff |
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 Aug 28 2005, 12:56 AM
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A barbel-fisher pal phoned me half an hour ago, telling me to post a link to a thread to which I had contributed on another (fly fishing) forum - "They'll appreciate it more in on AngNet, Paul."
Here goes... http://flyforums.proboards53.com/index.cgi...read=1125071253 -------------------- "What did you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...?"
Basil Fawlty to the old bat, guest from hell, Mrs Richards. |
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Aug 28 2005, 01:17 AM
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Nice one. Saw some similar pictures on the saltwater flyfishing forum, taken on a Baghdad reservoir after the first invasion. Rod under one arm, carbine under the other.
There was also a discussion involving some of the troops that had occupied Baghdad. The general concensus of opinion was that most if not all of the 'mesopotamian mahseer' in the vicinity of the capital had either died in the many bombing raids and artillery duels that dumped thousands of tons of ordinance in the river or had been eaten by the meat starved population. -------------------- 'I've got a mind like a steel wassitsname'
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Aug 28 2005, 08:15 PM
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didn't see any mahseer last year when i was there, all i saw that was in the chat al arab (a tributary of the either the tigris or the euphrates) were cats, some big ones mind.
the photo in the flyforums thread of the us soldier holding up the piece of card has been seem many many times, all with different messages, i wonder what the original message was.... |
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Aug 29 2005, 04:48 AM
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Shame all the fish in the photo's ended up dead. I bet they weren't eaten.
The Asp looked a bit skinny too. I wonder if they're a sub-species [ 28. August 2005, 11:50 PM: Message edited by: Ken L ] -------------------- Species caught in 2008:
Barramundi. p-i-k-e-y sea bream. Indian sea catfish. Guitarfish. Mangrove Jack. Mahseer. Squid (Not strictly a fish but it took a lure !). Emporer Sweetlip. Black Spot Snapper. Moray eel. Spangled Emperor. Bluecheek silver grunt. Yellow striped emperor. Vanikoro sweeper. Pike. Perch. Brown trout. Chub. Atlantic salmon. |
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Aug 29 2005, 03:10 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 5,785 Joined: 6-August 03 From: North Yorkshire Member No.: 4,104 |
if you knew what horrors the average iragi river contained, you wouldn't eat a fish out of one!
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Aug 29 2005, 03:54 PM
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QUOTE jeepster: The same with many a river in India, too. A story that I used to tell to anglers in the days when I gave slideshow talks (a story since hijacked and recycled by one of the new wave of mahseer fishers, I undertand)was one about what happened to me a couple of times when fishing the upper Ganges in northern India. The worst instance was when, when I was wading waist-deep, the charred upper-half of a human body was briefly washed against me. The second instance was when, as a couple of Indian pals and I were about to start fishing, half an arm bumped across the gravels, past our feet, in the shallows, prompting me to crack a desperately dark "Gizza a hand" to my companions before we waded out to commence casting.if you knew what horrors the average iragi river contained, you wouldn't eat a fish out of one! As for the human and industrial pollution that finds its way into the Indian rivers once they leave the hills... [ 29. August 2005, 11:00 AM: Message edited by: Paul Boote ] -------------------- "What did you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...?"
Basil Fawlty to the old bat, guest from hell, Mrs Richards. |
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Aug 30 2005, 04:57 AM
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QUOTE jeepster: the photo in the flyforums thread of the us soldier holding up the piece of card has been seem many many times, all with different messages, i wonder what the original message was.... 
-------------------- "Democracy dies when the people wanting their government to take care of them outnumber those wanting to take care of themselves." - Author Unknown - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For a selection of lures, reels and other items, visit my eBay shop http://stores.ebay.com/JaNewt-eMart |
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Aug 30 2005, 02:04 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 5,785 Joined: 6-August 03 From: North Yorkshire Member No.: 4,104 |
thanks for that newt!
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Sep 1 2005, 01:14 PM
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Well-funded and -sponsored young American looking for the world's giant fish. More, below, about the same man who was featured looking for giant Mekong catfish whose pics we saw a few months ago...
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8655 -------------------- "What did you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...?"
Basil Fawlty to the old bat, guest from hell, Mrs Richards. |
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Sep 1 2005, 04:21 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 21,142 Joined: 21-November 00 From: Concord, NC, USA Member No.: 463 |
Bruddy, cheeky Americans. Bet ya he really wants to catch and eat them.
-------------------- "Democracy dies when the people wanting their government to take care of them outnumber those wanting to take care of themselves." - Author Unknown - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For a selection of lures, reels and other items, visit my eBay shop http://stores.ebay.com/JaNewt-eMart |
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