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mission for years, has caught them up to sixty pounds. 

 Col. Nightingale hooked a sixty-pound mahseer in 

 the gorge of the Godavery, close to Bison Hill, and 

 it took him twelve hours to land it, but judging by 

 my own experience, heavy fish don't give much play, 

 they often sulk ; those best worth catching are 

 between twenty and thirty pounds. 



