mahseer ? Anyone ?

[Indian Angler]

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?

[argyll]

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 ]

[Paul Boote]

argyll:

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.

Duly raised ("Yo...").

[Indian Angler]

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.

[argyll]

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?

[kleinboet]

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!!

[Guest rabbit]

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?

[Guest rabbit]

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.

[Ken L]

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 ]

[Sportsman]

"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