376 Fishing Localities. CHAP. xxvi. 



feeders of the Cavery, lie in the Wynaad Taluk, and those of the 

 Bawany also in the Wallawanad Taluk (all in sheet No. 61). The 

 former can be reached from Manantoddy, Bawally, Caukancotta, in 

 Mysore, Gunnapaddyvattam (Sultan's battery), and Guddaloor, at each 

 of which places there is either a bungalow or other accommodation. 

 The latter can be reached from Munaur (No. 9) by ascending the 

 Attapadi (misspelt as Allapady in sheet No. 61) ghaut, but this is 

 an out-of-the-way place with no local supplies. 



.- Of Attapadi, which means the hamlet of leeches, H. writes that 

 he saw fine fish there. I can well understand that there should be, 

 for it is on the head waters of the Bawany, in fact above Perali, 

 mentioned in Coimbatore district. H. writes that Attapadi was 

 healthy in the monsoon, and the water clear even in July and August, 

 evidently because it came through grass and forest, whence there 

 was no befouling wash. All the Mahseer in the river seemed to 

 have gathered up there, and he caught two Carnatic Carp of about 

 i Ib. each, that were scarred from fish bites, probably bites from 

 Freshwater Sharks, for I do not think a Mahseer bite would leave 

 a scar. 



Shermangundi is on the Bawany; the river is clear there in the 

 monsoon, and holds Mahseer. H. will answer for it. Gopaneri is on 

 a feeder only. 



Eddawarra, on the Nilambur River. D. saw a 5 Ib. Mahseer 

 and Murral and Freshwater Shark caught with live frog suspended 

 on the surface from five feet springy bamboos stuck in the bank, 

 twenty such baits being simultaneously set by the natives. 



Nadghbny. D. writes again, there are no fish in the pretty river 

 one mile below the bungalow, but following down stream one mile 

 another river joins, and the Mahseer commence there from the water- 

 fall at the junction. The fish we got there were small, i Ib. and 

 under; they took your small sized fly (i.e., the smallest one I have 

 mentioned for Carnatic Carp) and were greedy and violent. He and 

 L. got eight Mahseer. 



In the Malabar District is also the Ba-min (Polynemus) fishing, 

 of which the localities are given in the chapter on Estuary Fishing. 



K. G. had sport with Ba-mm at Mahe in November and December. 



