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Post by Mack The Knife » Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:16 pm

Trips to Forbes Sagar, that is.

On reaching Forbes, we saw that the conditions were a lot better - clearer water, the sun was out but it wasn't too hot. The only negative was the high water level. However, since we weren't about to go home because of a high water level, we commenced our first session of the day at 0900 and it proved to be a fairly good one.

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After much faffing around with an accursed swivel, Inder finally managed to boat his first murrel of the day.

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Towards the end of the first session something extraordinary occured. The instant the frog landed it was hit violently and I could tell the fish had hooked itself (with frogs, you wait a second or two before striking / setting the hook) and I remarked to Inder that this was most unusual thinking it was a murrel. However, it turned out to be mahseer! I know mahseer eat frogs but hadn't heard of one being caught on a frog.

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I then caught another last murrel before we reached the car for lunch at 1330.

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At 1500 we set off again for the second session but this did not prove to be as entertaining.

Inder opened the second session with two murral but we couldn't get a pic of the first because it slipped out of his hand and into the water.

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Thereafter, I caught another four and we ended the fishing at 1830.

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Post by Ranjeet Singh » Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:41 pm

Excellent pics..

Looking forward for for my fishing trip soon..

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Post by TenX » Sun Nov 16, 2008 6:04 pm

Great going Mack The Knife and Inder... :)
BTW... the last fish had some odd wound like mark on its tail...
... and Mack The Knife, congrats on your half century at Forbes :)
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Re: 50 up!

Post by Mack The Knife » Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:30 am

Looking forward for for my fishing trip soon..
Does this mean that the WASI office has given you a date for the interview or are you going some place else?
BTW... the last fish had some odd wound like mark on its tail...
One does see this sometimes.

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Re: 50 up!

Post by Ranjeet Singh » Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:46 am

[quote="Mack The Knife Bana";p="59253"]
Does this mean that the WASI office has given you a date for the interview or are you going some place else
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No I haven't yet heard from the WASI office. It been a really long time.
I was hoping of going with you sometime...

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Post by Mack The Knife » Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:01 pm

Not a problem. Let's see if we can make a trip during the first three weeks of December.

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