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baited runa Two or three such runs will suffice for a morning 01 

 evening. 



The season for this fishing is the Bame as for all other 

 Blahseer fishing, the bright-water weather; and the time of day 

 the Bame also, namely, the mmtiing and evening. 



There does Dot seem to lie any necessity to hide yourself, 

 as in other fishing. Foil may tish openly from the water's edge, 

 far the misguided creatures thiuk you are a public benefactor. 

 In short, you may follow the fashion of the age, preaching 

 "universal philanthropy," "the solidarity of humanity," and so 

 forth, while in plain Kn glinh yon mean death to others, and gain 

 to yoursi If. 



Though you throw your bait like a fly, you do not draw 

 your bait like a fly or tish ; you simply let it float down, or rather 

 irried down under water. Your collar should be of single 

 gut, as in fly-fishing. The thickness of the gut depends on what 

 you expect to catch. The fish caught this way are generally 

 small, hut I see in the "Meld" that the late Major Geoffrey 

 Nightingale caught a Mahseer as much as 40 lbs. in weight, in 

 this way, on a single gut. 1 presume it was salmon gut, or 

 something approaching it. A single scale of tins fish measured 

 2| of an inch in diameter, in a life size engraving in the " Field " 



■li October 1869. 



rossil.lv the large fish are shy, unless the angler is as 

 thoroughly concealed in this sort of fishing as he should be in 

 any other, and that it is only the youngsters that are taken in 

 with communistic clap-trap. 



Since my first edition 1 have tried the above plan very 

 carefully, and have also tried it with what seemed to me a 

 more natural bait, the fruit of the banyan (Ficws Indiea) which 

 I used in large quantities in admirably well adapted localities 

 But on every occasion it was a signal failure, albeit the descrip- 

 tion was verified as correct by a good fisherman, Colonel K. <i 

 I do not remember having had an offer even. 1 think it is pretty 

 clear that this style of fishing will not suit .Madias Mahseer. 

 I' -ems to be confined to localities in which the fish have been 

 thoroughly educated to it by having been long accustomed to 



a led by man. 



In the "Asian" of the 25th November, bS7'.», W. T. F. 



