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Sport may also he had before the coffee pulping begins at 

 Wottakuli, half way down the Sampaje ghaut, but at Wottakuli 

 the Mahseer are rary small, running to about 2 lbs. or 3 lbs. 



Matuerabad. — S. writes of a lovely little golden brown 

 Mahseer, beinu: taken with a black palmer fly, about the size of 

 a No. 5 Kirby hook, in a rocky little stream at the top of the 

 Bfanzexabad Ghat. Also at a tank Bomewhere about Manzerabad, 

 J, mites that he killed, with a black palmer, and subsequently 

 with gaudy flies, on No. 6 Limerick hook, my sizes, fish of some 

 s. lit. averaging i lb., but sometimes running to i lb. and 1 lb. 



Mdranhally. — I caught fish of some sort, description not given, 

 of 3 lbs. and 4 lbs., ro\ iiiL, r with a dough bait. 



Bombay Presidency. 



North Caiuira District. 



soppa. — This far-famed fall, which beggars all description, 

 ought to be visited by every lover of the grand and beautiful, but 

 not without a salmon rod. There is fair fishing above the falls. 



Bleep the road from the bungalow towards Mysore till you 

 come to the bridge and stream at the bottom of the hill. Just past 

 the bridge a bridle-path will conduct you about mile to the head of 

 the big pool. Thence upwards there is one succession of pools and 

 runs. But the fish are not plentiful or large. I never tried the 

 big pool, but towards the tail of the big pool above the falls, where 

 it first begins to have eddies on it among the rocks, fish are said to 

 have been caught. The water below the falls is recommended by 

 some wag in the bungalow book, but do not you go on such a fool's 

 errand I have struggled barefoot where natives would not follow, 

 and could not get to any decent water there. 



I also waded through the bungalow book, and though " fine 

 " fish" arc talked of tin-rein, nothing definite is recorded over 5 lbs. 

 In the rapids far above I saw S. kill one of 20 lbs. weight, and we 

 got others of 6 lbs. and 8 lbs., but the majority of the Mahseer 

 were very small, say 1 lb. and 1A_ lbs., and the river seemed rerj 

 bare of fry and of all sorts of small fish. I fancy the river must be 

 very much poisoned, netted, and cruived like the rest of the risers 



