A weekend's fishing with Asif

[Mack The Knife]

Ah, which is why I am partial to field sports.... you can do both safely!

Not in my camp, Abhijeet. A peg or max two is fine but anything more could be asking for trouble and I have seen the results first hand.

P.S. - Rusty, make it up north this summer... we may have a pleasant surprise in store for you buddy!

Damnit! Now you have got me all fired up. Could you PM me the deails please.
I never accompany the kids and wife up north during the summers and the in-laws might begin to wonder about my new found love for them.

Mack The Knife

[HSharief]

Mack The Knife, how is the fishing like in late December. I'm planning a trip home then and I was wondering if I can dream of a trip to Bangalore. I know it'll be COLD...

Without getting grief, maybe a IFG get together or picnic cd be dreamt of.

[Mack The Knife]

Guessed it right then.

What exactly did you guess right?

Till what time in the night did you guys fish?

LOL. At five past midnight I said our next casts would be our last but I finally had to put the brakes on Asif at 1 a.m. He was literally dozing at the rod but would just not stop. In total he had almost half a dozen good bites (from mahseer) but after a full days fishing (we started at 9 a.m. or so with an hours break for lunch and then a dinner break between 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.) he wasn't striking well enough.

He was up again at 6 a.m. and got himself a big murral at the cottage lake. Unfortunately, the murral bit right through the leader. Must have been a big fellow.

Let's just say he's my type of angler. After all, anyone who tells his wife that he has to be in Bangalore because he has to be there for a very important conference and smuggles his tackle out of the house is my kind of guy.

Is that a coracle I see doc sitting on?

Yes, that's a coracle he is sitting in. He does not swim and is sh*t scared of even standing in one.

OT, but did you find the croc poo(posted earlier) in this area?

No, that was at the cottage lake. However, we counted four crocs whilst we were fishing for mahseer at Forbes. Discovered a new thing as well.... croc eyes shine back white when illuminated with a white LED torch but orangish red when using an incandescent light. Never realised that the colour of the light would make a difference but apparently it does.

Mack The Knife

[Mack The Knife]

Lovely pics. No cocktails to go with the fried fish? Just let me know if you need recipes - I do post there on the NE forums on a regular basis and would happily offer some here if needed.

Mehul,

That was the starter. For dinner we had chicken curry and rice. The blighter brought two chicken with him and threatened to have a whole chicken which was all horse manure because in that heat you really don't feel like eating. To give you an idea, I went through 4 litres of Tang in 5 hours and I was going easy on it because I had only brought 6 litres. I could live on the stuff when its this hot.



Simple recipes would be most welcome. Thanks.

Mack The Knife

[Mack The Knife]

Asif,

Have you thanked Mack The Knife for lopping off at least 10 years ?

(7th picture from top)

LOL. He certainly behaved like one.

Mack The Knife

[Mack The Knife]

Mack The Knife, how is the fishing like in late December. I'm planning a trip home then and I was wondering if I can dream of a trip to Bangalore. I know it'll be COLD...

Without getting grief, maybe a IFG get together or picnic cd be dreamt of.

Hi Sharief,

December is just great though it does become quite nippy late in the night to very early in the morning.

You would be most welcome and an IFG meet is a possibility but this December is a bit dicey for me as I have the kids' thread ceremony coming up after Christmas. School shuts on the 20th or so and reopens on the 3rd, so I am not sure if it would be possible this December.

Mack The Knife

[Pran]

What exactly did you guess right?

About catching Mahseers in the night.Was guessing considering you'd caught mahseer after dark in an earlier fishing trip too(an older thread-a truly noble fish).

> At five past midnight I said our next casts would be our last but I finally had to put the brakes on Asif at 1 a.m.

You guys rowed the coracle by yourselves?


>Let's just say he's my type of angler. After all, anyone who tells his wife that he has to be in Bangalore because he has to be there for a very important conference and smuggles his tackle out of the house is my kind of guy.




>Yes, that's a coracle he is sitting in




>No, that was at the cottage lake. However, we counted four crocs whilst we were fishing for mahseer at Forbes. Discovered a new thing as well.... croc eyes shine back white when illuminated with a white LED torch but orangish red when using an incandescent light. Never realised that the colour of the light would make a difference but apparently it does.

Interesting, wasn't aware of that.How far were they from you?

Spotted any boars?

Pran

[Pran]

I have the kids' thread ceremony coming up after Christmas

Excuse my ignorance, but what's a thread ceremony? (thought only the brahmin guys do that )

Pran

[Mack The Knife]

The coracle is rowed by a guard but if necessary I can do it though not as efficently as them.

I'd say we were between 100 and 150 yards from the crocs. Could be closer though as I tend to over estimate range at night.

Who told you about the boars? No, we did not see any this time.

As for the thread ceremony, Google 'Navjote'.

Mack The Knife

[Vikram]

Congrats Jefe on your catch.The sequence of pics from the forced Eastwood deadpan looks to bursting into a childlike giggle are super.

The fish and chicken look yummy.Mack The Knife believe me,I would finish them all alone!

"After all, anyone who tells his wife that he has to be in Bangalore because he has to be there for a very important conference and smuggles his tackle out of the house"

Hope Elle Jefe does not read our boards.

"He does not swim and is sh*t scared of even standing in one"

Are any life-jackets available at the cottage for the non-swimmers? I do swim of course.

Great story and pics.The fish looked superb,fried of course.

Best-
Vikram

[Pran]

I'd say we were between 100 and 150 yards from the crocs. Could be closer though as I tend to over estimate range at night.

That's pretty close.

>Who told you about the boars?

Not very sure.If there aren't any in the Shivanasamudram area it must've been Bheemeshwari.Remember seeing the pics on IA.

Pran

[Mack The Knife]

Vikram, if you can indeed finish two chicken at one sitting, all I will say is that you are most welcome to come fishing but please bring your own food.

Elle Jeffe called whilst our champion was fishing. Towards the end of the conversation she asked him why he was whispering and he just giggled and told her that he had come fishing. However, since there has been no sign of him on the boards, I assume he is swimming with the fish now.

Life jackets are available but in this heat?

Mack The Knife

[Sakobav]

You guyz been busy and had fun nice pics

So whats the recipe for fish and chicken??

[Yaj]

Wow!Looks like you guys had fun!Congrats on your catch Asif!
Great pics Rusty.
Tried some shore fishing on Sat with Santosh and Fred but no luck
Yaj.

[eljefe]

Hi People,
I am not fish food, yet .
There is calumny implied-There was a conference and I did my best to attend!


When Capt Rusty 'Nail' Bana goes into warp speed, he adds the mizzen and top gallants to the main sails and awaaay on the mysore road me hearties...
If Mack The Knife talks about the chicken etc , the amount of food he had brought was prodigious to say the least-all with the 30 min heads up that I am in town and free to go fishing

Pran-Yes, used the new Mahseer rod-Ragi + hing as bait-That little fellow in the pic gave a fair fight and I want to meet him again in 5 years or so, when we both have fine honed our fighting techniques.

Sujay, I've been feeling 10 yrs younger since I joined IFG !!

I scuba dive, got my PADI card by floating 200m and dog paddling a bit-Give me a BCD and an air tank - I am comfy.As for life jackets-I had Mack The Knife along...

Crocs-at about 100m was a ring of 4 outfielders, a couple were closer!
Yes, that biz with the regular incandecent bulb and LED bulbs surely amazed me-Always thought croc eyes reflected red

Butt feels like Lance Armstrong after tour de france, the burns are just settling and back needed a couple of strong pain killers.
Cant get the grin off my face -sorry if the female colleagues think its a lecherous leer

Mehul, Happy Birthday-belated but the wishes are many and heartfelt.

HAd a couple of, well, different experiences- a Brahminy kite decided my frog lure was going to be his breakfast and did a stuka dive, HIT IT and I had visions of frantically reeling in a hooked,angry bird and the hassles of unhooking it-fortunately, after a couple of tries, we 'aimed' the oar at it and some subliminal memory must have kicked in-he made for better climes.
As fisherman stories go, a BIG Murral, mad a lunge for my frog bait and took it clean off! I was using a 20lb leader with 10lb main line-frantically reeling in and the slack and then the cut end...no camera to record 'the look' on my face
Well people , the pics say it all, 3 BIIG cheers for Capt Rusty for the time and effort.God Bless.
Axx