366 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



than there was a fish on it. I did at last what I 

 should have done at first examined my tackle, and 

 found the spinning gear out of order. I put it to 

 rights and then caught three fish fourteen, four and 

 six pounds each. 0. caught five, one twenty-six 

 pounds, followed by four, twenty-two, twenty, fourteen 

 and four pounds each. We bagged 736 pounds of 

 fish, of which I got 276 pounds, 0. 258|- pounds, 

 H. 105|- pounds, B 96 pounds. In October I 

 again visited this river, McW., Deputy-Commissioner, 

 going a part of the way with me. I had capital 

 sport catching the following two fish, each three 

 pounds ; these were the bassah or gna mein of the 

 Burmese : capital eating, but afford no sport. The 

 following weight of mahseer I also secured : 537 pounds, 

 and eight more bassah weighing thirty-five pounds. In 

 September of the following year, in four days I 

 caught 376 pounds of fish ; three largest forty-four, 

 forty, thirty- six pounds, and the rest from twenty-eight 

 to four pounds ; besides of course losing many other 

 fish hooked but not landed. In September, 1872, V., 

 of the llth Hussars, and I had capital sport. I got 

 277 pounds of mahseer; V. fell out of the boat and 

 hooked his man twice, and I had to cut the hooks out. 

 In the Manass I caught a lot of fish, but the largest 

 was under thirty pounds, and since that some officers 

 have caught in that river, fish up to sixty pounds. Where 

 I had trolled 1 over and over again without getting a 

 a run, a Lascar, with a lump of sodden rice, caught a 

 mahseer eighty pounds. 1 Col. C., one of the best shots 

 and fishermen in Assam, and who was in the com- 



1 In the Brahmapootra off Gouhatty. 



