380 Fishing Localities. CHAP. xxvi. 



Mr. Sanderson, author of " Thirteen Years among the Wild Beasts 

 of India," also gave me the following list of likely places in Mysore, but 

 it was in 1873, when he was not so great with the rod as the rifle, and 

 I should attach more weight to it if he could have revised it in later 

 years. I should think the forest-clad Cubbany should be good, 

 negotiated in a boat. 



" Hoonsoor should be your first place ; from there you can go to 

 Chunchincuttay, on the Cavery, about 16 miles, where there are 

 considerable falls in the river. There is lots of accommodation in 

 the temple, and a Channel Department hut ; but take supplies for 

 a day or two, till you can get into swing from Hoonsoor. There is 

 a good cart road. 



"About 500 yards below the fall there is a small pool with ^fish. 

 You will probably see them rolling in the evening. From the fall to 

 this point are several grand runs, but rocky. All this holds fish. 



" Mundegherry on the Hemavutty, about 12 miles across country 

 from Chunchincuttay, you might try if you find Chunchincuttay answer ; 

 there are fish ; lots of fine water. 



" Hansogee and Ramnathpoor^ 9 and 18 miles respectively up stream 

 from Chunchincuttay, with a good road, and accommodation at both 

 places, might be visited. The first has lots of big fish, but only pools. 

 At Ramnathpoor you would see the temple fish. They don't mind 

 your fishing 100 yards or so above the temple bathing steps, where 

 there is good water. 



" Returning to Hoonsoor you could run down to the Cubbany, near 

 Heggadevencottah, 20 miles ; there is a fair road. Should you do so 

 you should camp at a village near the mouth of a tributary river called, 

 I think, the " Sartee," which you will see on the map ; there are fish, 

 and Moormen who know their whereabouts well. I caught my 

 I5o-pounder there. 



" There is nothing in the river at Hoonsoor, the Lutchmenteert. 

 " I have always had a great opinion of the chances of good sport in 

 the Cubbany, but have never had proper appliances. It is a treat 

 to see the fish rising and feeding about in the runs near Carkencottah. 



" The rivers I now have fishing on, are the Cavery and Hemavutty. 

 I do not know the Toongabudra from personal experience, but have 

 heard from natives that it is inferior to the former two. But the river 

 for monsters, and lots of them, is the Cubbany. This comes from 



