Indians For Guns

Yesterday I was accompanied by Asif's younger brother, Arif.

Now, if I resemble a football, this guy looks like half-a-dozen of the aforesaid rolled into one. A deadringer for Danny DeVito is our Arif. Keeping this in mind, my concern for the jalopy's suspension over long stretches of bad roads and paths was only natural. Needless to say the Nips have their engineering down pat and the too'ing and fro'ing was a toot.

I have often wondered about the result of Arif and I getting into the same coracle and had I not experienced this for myself, I would have remained a Doubting Thomas. Let's just say, we went fishing and with that I will get on with the report.

It remained overcast throughout the day and the wind did not get up too much and neither did it rain. The first thirty minutes saw a murrel latch on to my spinner and a while later there was another on my modified froggie. And no, I am not telling.





Arif on the other hand was having a torrid time as I forced him to wear the WASI lifejacket (damned if I am going to lend him mine and suffer the consequences) and the ruddy thing was chaffing his armpits. To make matters worse, murrel actually took his lure quite a few times but being new, eagerness and a mounting sense of frustration had him striking too early. He'll learn....

Two and a half hours of this and we went back so that another WASI member could use the coracle but he decided to push off instead. We decided on an early lunch and I was looking forward to the scrumptious samosas I had asked him to get. Guess what? The blister had forgotten them at home and in its place was a big dish of chicken curry and what not but that simply did not tickle the old appetite. So, with 'lunch' out of the way, I went spinning along the edges whilst Arif got himself some shuteye.

4 p.m. saw us setting off again for murrel enroute to the mahseer casting point but we managed to catch bug*3r-all. The first hour or so of ledgering for mahseer was dull, dull and thrice dull. I occupied my time by putting the baitcaster on free-spool and spinning for a murrel I knew was close by and managed to hook the blighter after a few casts.



With the murrel accounted for I got back to ledgering and we had a brief window of 30 or 45 minutes when the mahseer went for the bait and we got ourselves four.

Arif got the first one and he was all smiles. I permitted him to take off the jacket because I do have a heart......somewhere.



I got the second one and whilst I estimated that it would atleast be a 2 kg mahseer, the ghillie was estimating about 5 kgs due to the fight it was putting up. Believe it or not, it was nothing more than this small tiddler who gained the respect of all in the old tub.



Soon after I hooked into another and had another good scrapper at the end of the line.



I then managed a third fellow who was bigger than my first one but he came in without a fight. Boring!



After this the action died and it stayed that way until it was time to leave.

once again a proud catch mate, so did u have fish and chips for supper? yammy do not forget to add the salt and vino.

well done

nagarifle";p="46839 wrote:so did u have fish and chips for supper?

No but I may just have a Naga roasted ever so slowly over the spit.

Mack The Knife (off to file his teeth)

whoah, that was a sight i missed, the two of you in the coracle! and you made it too!
Thanks for getting him 'hooked',hopefully,line and sinker.What was the tackle?

The fish probably were carried in the water that spilled over the banks as these two entered the river

As Abhijeet and Sanjay can testify,I now come in the regular category and so can make fat jokes

My sole foray into the field of fishing was un-fruitful and convinced me that the only fish I am destined to catch is the one on my plate.

You guys from Bangalore are lucky to have something like this so close by.A nice way to spend a day or two.

Asif,

I am not sure about getting him hooked. He was tired (late night sitting up with a family friend of yours at the hospital) and his tumtum started acting up in the afternoon so he did not appear to be in the best of form but being the good sport that he is, he did not b**ch and moan about it. He may just catch more fish if he left the bloody phone in the car though. If someone calls me when I am fishing I am close to biting their heads off but this guy will politely explain that he is not in town and could they please call on Monday, blah, blah, blah....and I am talking close to 100 calls and messages here.

He was using the 6' Rapala and DAM reel for murrel and my 6' TFO and Daiwa reel for mahseer. I did not want him taking a chance with mahseer using 10 lb line. The other spool with the yellow / gold line was underspooled. Will spool it with 20lb Trilene Big Game when I go across to pick up the scope. I was using the TFO and Abu baitcasting outfit.

The fish probably were carried in the water that spilled over the banks as these two entered the river

Archimedes was always one of my heroes.

As Abhijeet and Sanjay can testify,I now come in the regular category and so can make fat jokes

There were distinct doubts about your age though and telling porkies on the board is dashed bad form, what?

My sole foray into the field of fishing was un-fruitful and convinced me that the only fish I am destined to catch is the one on my plate.

What about that big lake in Chandigarh where your uncle angles? Bangaloreans are lucky but only those who actually make the effort to get outdoors regularly and this isn't exactly on our doorsteps.

Mack The Knife Bana";p="46855 wrote:

The fish probably were carried in the water that spilled over the banks as these two entered the river

What about that big lake in Chandigarh where your uncle angles? Bangaloreans are lucky but only those who actually make the effort to get outdoors regularly and this isn't exactly on our doorsteps.

Do you mean the Sukhna Lake?

I am sorry but I am not sure about its name. However, I did read an article about it being open to anglers.

penpusher, is Sukhna lake the one we had discussed in the past and the one some of the DD's and I were to visit in 2006?

Sukhna lake is the one.However it is not a very good spot to fish and as it is,it is slowly silting up.

From Chandigarh good fishing spots can be Ropar head works or maybe even Bhakra dam are within reach . These both should be 1 to 2 hours depending upon traffic. Another place in Chandigarh for fishing could be a small reservoir on that road connecting Mullapur and Baddi behind PGI. Its easy to advise I live on an damn Island and still...LOL

Best

Thanks penpusher.

Navdeep, you Chandigarh and Mohali boys have some excellent fishing locations at hand and I am told your roads are first class to boot. We spend a minimum of 2hrs30mins getting to the water and an hour more getting back home at night. Thanks for letting me know because now penpusher has no excuses and I can nag him with a clear conscience.

And shame on you as well.