Yet another Saturday...

[Mack The Knife]

...and yet another trip report from the WASIbum.

I wanted to leave at 4 a.m. so as to catch the early morning action but I finally dropped off to sleep around 3'ish. Anyway, I was out of the house by 5:55 a.m. and spinning away from the coracle by 9 a.m..

Here's fishy number one...


The next one was a first of sorts because it happened to be a tilapia on a Mepps Agila No.4


Followed by a few more murrel...










The old banger back in action...


This pic is dedicated to Grumpy.


Did a couple of hours of ledgering for rohu but just did not get a bite even though I saw them all over Forbes.

The last session was for mahseer. They were in a real feeding frenzy today and even though I cocked up innumerable times, I still managed to catch four of them.










Left the place at 9:45 p.m. and had a thoroughly enjoyable drive back with Led Zep belting away on the stereo - I needed something stronger than just a coffee to stay awake on the road.

[Yaj]

Good show Mack The Knife! That is one productive trip.Thanks for sharing.
Led Zep its been a long time, brings back memories .
Regards,
Yaj.

[jonahpach]

Great stuff rusty! BTW what happened to your Gypsy?? Watchout for that beer belly of yourns!! It's really close to jamming up the steering wheel of your old jalopy

Jonah

[Pran]

The first mahseer looks pretty big. How much did it weigh?

[kanwar76]

Aha looks like a full action packed day....

Rusty, Did you notice any difference in the conditions from last week and yesterday? Like tempreture, Water level or something? What do you think was the reason that mahseer were in a feeding frenzy as you say?

Yep, As Pran said, that one looks quite big. Biggest so far I think from Forbes.

What size hooks were you using for Mahseer? Or this one was on a Plug?

-Inder

[Risala]

Rusty that is a good day at work,great going & good size Mahseer too

[GasramGandu]

Looks like you had a good trip! That has to be the biggest tilapia i've ever seen caught on spinner. Congratulations.

GG

[Mack The Knife]

Yaj: I don't listen to rock quite often but when I do, it has got to be the old stuff. Time to dust off those old LPs, assuming you haven't already.

Jonah: Made a mistake and sold the Gypsy a couple of weeks back. Regret the decision so much that I am working on ordering a new one.

Pran: No idea about the exact weight but I would say it's close to 3 kgs. Certainly not the biggest caught so far.

Inder: The conditions were a little different. There was slight cloud cover. It never got very windy. The moon was a little over half but it only rose around 10:30/45 p.m. (saw it whilst driving). Water level seemed to be about the same (5' to 6' below), which makes spinning for murrel more difficult but all the more rewarding.
I was using a Matzuo Sickle Octopus hook 4 or 6 (I forget) for both rohu and mahsser. These are the pointiest hooks I have seen to date but they loose their pointiness, though still useable, by the end of a days fishing - especially a swim with a lot of rocks and sunken trees. All the mahseer were caught by the ledgering method.

Sanjay: I'd be a happy chappy if I could make it a paying job.

[Mack The Knife]

Looks like you had a good trip! That has to be the biggest tilapia i've ever seen caught on spinner. Congratulations.

GG

Ta! Was really surprised to see this happen. I really wish I could have added atleast one rohu to the catch. They were feeding close to the main channel and it would have been a hoot to fight them in the current.

[kanwar76]

I was using a Matzuo Sickle Octopus hook 4 or 6 (I forget) for both rohu and mahsser. These are the pointiest hooks I have seen to date but they loose their pointiness, though still useable, by the end of a days fishing - especially a swim with a lot of rocks and sunken trees. All the mahseer were caught by the ledgering method.

I ordered the same hooks from Cabelas, Is there a way to re-sharpen them. Do you do that?

-Inder

[Mack The Knife]

Inder, being small hooks and extremely pointy, the point tends to bend/fold just a tiny bit. Since the deformation is so small do not even think of using pliers to straighten out the deformation. Instead, use a file or knife sharpening stone to remove the bent bit and re-point the hook. You will need a fine file.

Last weekend I used the file on my Swiss Army knife to do this as I had left the hooks at the cottage and was fishing from the road across the cottage channel.

I saw you using the same make but the size was bigger than what I used during these past two weekends. It's okay to use that size for mahseer but for rohu I prefer to use something smaller - Nos. 4 (max), 6 or 8.

BTW, all four mahseer were probably caught on a hook with a slightly deformed point. I realised this only after I had finished fishing or else I would have filed or replaced the hook. In otherwords, they were still pointy enough to hook fish in a pinch.

[Mack The Knife]

GG,

Was the first mahseer in the post a blue finned mahseer or some other variety?

[Ranjeet Singh]

Excellent Pics!!

About time, I take membership of WASI.

Will come over sometime to do that and also pass on the ballistol.

Next weeend off to a short vacation, Surely the weekend after that.

Cheers
Ranjeet

[Mack The Knife]

About time, I take membership of WASI.

Which reminds me that someone else on this thread has been promsing to do this for some time now. Perhaps we should stop taking him as a guest.

Ranjeet, I am out of station for two weeks starting tomorrow night. We will meet in the third or fourth week of May.

[Grumpy]

Looks like a cracking days fishing Dodger.
Nice to see the Wild Boar swimming in a pack..............................................
LOL !!!