Indians For Guns

I have absolutely no idea about fishing rods, could someone be kind enough to let me know
1) what should I look for, when I am buying a fishing rod? - any brands, in particular?
2) I assume like all things in life, the fishing rod also depends on purpose- the purpose being - able to fish around bangalore and join the fishing trips with Mack The Knife.
3) what other things are required to start off..

Any pointers would be helpful

cheers
Ranjeet

Thanks for starting the thread Ranjeet.Will add a few of my questions to it.

Where could I pick a Shakepeare 3000 reel and a few hooks(8,9,10) in Bangalore?

Pran

Ranjeet,

Will answer the questions sometime this week.

Mack The Knife

Pran,

Try Olympic Sports for the hooks. You have mentioned the size but not the type of hook.

Mack The Knife

Ranjeet,

Let's start with rod basics. Read the following links.

http://www.thaifishingguide.com/fishtec ... _rods.html

http://www.basspro.com/servlet/catalog. ... subcatID=0

http://www.ehow.com/how_2212_buy-fishing-rod.html

http://www.tackletour.com/reviewrightrod.html

We will proceed to the other points later.

Mack The Knife

Mack The Knife Bana";p="12245 wrote:Pran,

Try Olympic Sports for the hooks. You have mentioned the size but not the type of hook.

Mack The Knife

What kind of hooks would be used to catch Murrels and Carp?

btw, found the links helpful.

Pran

Thanks Mack The Knife for the links

I spent a good time reading..but I guess now I have more questions than before..

I'll post them later today..

Ranjeet

uh ooh-Mack The Knife, here it comes again Ranjeet, when i started, I sent Mack The Knife such a long e mail of my fishing doubts, the man stopped emailing me!LOL
Best thing is to pick up the basic gear that he advises you, meet up with him and learn hands on.
Best
Asif

eljefe";p="12325 wrote: uh ooh-Mack The Knife, here it comes again Ranjeet, when i started, I sent Mack The Knife such a long e mail of my fishing doubts, the man stopped emailing me!LOL
Best thing is to pick up the basic gear that he advises you, meet up with him and learn hands on.
Best
Asif

Perfect advice

-Inder

Ranjeet, when i started, I sent Mack The Knife such a long e mail of my fishing doubts, the man stopped emailing me!

Hmmm...I think I know how to get even now.

Ranjeet, here onwards please address your questions to Asif.

He's quite the theory master these days.

Yup Ranjeet, I just put up the perfect theory...nothing like hands on with Mack The Knife.
As for the questions Ranjeet, you'll have to chill a while because I am grossly involved in 'circumventing the mahseer ' and 'The Rod in india' awesome books-I can probably answer on how to catch socks, gunny sacks, glow-in-the -dark catfish -how to fish in drains-Fire away mate!:)
Best
Axx

eljefe";p="12336 wrote:how to fish in drains-Fire away mate!:)

Or "how not to fish in drains" Sorry was too easy to resist mate!

Cheers!
Abhijeet

eljefe";p="12325 wrote:uh ooh-Mack The Knife, here it comes again Ranjeet,
Best thing is to pick up the basic gear that he advises you, meet up with him and learn hands on.
Best
Asif

Well Mack The Knife, I'll take eljefe's advice and pick some basic gear..all the tapers and strength and material used, overwheel spinners and underwheel has gotten me completely confused.

I rephrase my question, well, I would also like to try fishing and need some basic gear before I get read the whole wikipedia on fishing equipment...and man!! there's an ocean of it..please let me know what basic stuff I need to catch some old socks....and sometimes a fish

regards
Ranjeet

Okay, will draw up a list later in the day. Will you be buying only in Germany or would you consider ordering from the U.S.?

I ask because Germany may be expensive though I am not sure what the prices would come to after shipping charges and duty.

Mack The Knife

Ranjeet

Check your PM there is a list which Mack The Knife put together for me from Cabela..

Rgds