 mahseer ? Anyone ? |
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 Sep 24 2005, 06:34 PM
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Junior Member  Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 23-September 05 Member No.: 7,350  |
hi
just joined up.. am from india and am a keen angler. am really lucky cos i live a 100km from some of the best mahseer fishing in the country. Anybody out there messed with mahseer? |
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Sep 24 2005, 07:23 PM
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 Member Group: Anglers' Net Contributor Posts: 4,903 Joined: 12-August 03 From: South London Member No.: 4,124 |
Anybody out there messed with mahseer?
No, but I like a good curry on a saturday night  Welcome Akshay, we do have a mahseer freak or two, one in India and at least one in the UK. Hopefully they may raise their heads with a greeting or two. [ 24. September 2005, 02:29 PM: Message edited by: argyll ] -------------------- 'I've got a mind like a steel wassitsname'
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Sep 24 2005, 07:53 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 752 Joined: 13-December 04 Member No.: 5,882 |
QUOTE argyll: Duly raised ("Yo...").
Anybody out there messed with mahseer? No, but I like a good curry on a saturday night :) Welcome Akshay, we do have a mahseer freak or two, one in India and at least one in the UK. Hopefully they may raise their heads with a greeting or two. -------------------- "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 24 2005, 07:59 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 23-September 05 Member No.: 7,350 |
Curry huh ? fish curry by any chance? The thing to avoid in India is the fish curry!!! I prefer my fish fried!!
The damn season's closed here. Waiting to hit the water.The season only opens after november. May go sea fishing first but am not too sure what to do!! Luckily most mahseer tackle's good for the sea. Apparently alot of Snapper, Grouper and GT. |
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Sep 24 2005, 08:06 PM
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Member Group: Anglers' Net Contributor Posts: 4,903 Joined: 12-August 03 From: South London Member No.: 4,124 |
Prefer my fish fried too. I'm just off for a few hours on the thames. Might get you to tell me about the trevally later...which part of the coast are you near?
-------------------- 'I've got a mind like a steel wassitsname'
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Sep 24 2005, 10:12 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 5,350 Joined: 18-March 03 From: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Member No.: 3,585 |
Indian Angler - Welcome to AN!! I lived in South Africa for about 35 years and did a lot of fishing in the Indian Ocean. I bet you have a lot of fish there which are the same as I have caught, but under different names.
The main thing about sea fishing in the Tropics (or sub-Tropics) are that the fish caught are 97% table fish!! --------------------  fishing is nature's medical prescription |
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Sep 24 2005, 11:15 PM
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Hi Indian Angler
Nice to get you on board, 100 clicks fom the best masheer fishing in India Lucky Devil demon I've seen John Wilson (He's an old fashioned colonial type of English Angling TV presenter who wears shorts that are too short) programmes catching these beautiful powerful fish. I think the favourite bait is ragu?? or similar, anyway its soap or similar moulded into a ball, am I right? We have a smaller cousin of the masheer in England , called the barbel, pound for pound it's arguably the stongest fighting fish in our waters. I bet most of the anglers on this forum would love to catch a masheer I know I would. I suppose we could set up an exchange visit, barbel vs masheer? |
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Sep 24 2005, 11:23 PM
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Just read your grouper comment. I have fished the Indian Ocean in the Gulf (Ex RAF) and we used to catch huge grouper, beautiful fish that fought really well, tiger ray, shark, barracuda also.
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Sep 25 2005, 02:20 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 4,362 Joined: 10-January 01 From: Birmingham Member No.: 558 |
Hi and welcome.
I've played with baby Mahseer and snakeheads on lures but the secion of river that I was fishing was heavily targeted by the guys with nets. I did see a couple of big fish moving but they were in a big snaggy slack and I suspect they were cats. I've had more success on the coast with India's Barramundi and have managed a few GT's and grouper/cod as well. Should be back over their in about six weeks for another session on the Goa/Maharashtra boarder. [ 24. September 2005, 09:22 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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Sep 25 2005, 03:57 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 2,721 Joined: 20-February 05 From: Balmoral, Scotland Member No.: 6,213 |
"We have a smaller cousin of the masheer in England , called the barbel, pound for pound it's arguably the stongest fighting fish in our
waters." Glad you said arguably
-------------------- Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be.
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