382 Fishing Localities. CHAP. xxvi. 



Deccan, and two miles from Hyderabad, is the Meer Allum tank. It is 

 about 4 miles round, and about 15 feet deep at the embankment. The 

 natives say the Labeo in it run over 20 Ibs. My informant caught them 

 up to 7 Ibs. only. This tank is fed by the Moosa river, which also feeds 

 the Hassan Saugar tank. My informant says : The best time is March 

 and April, when they bite right boldly, and that the tanks are not low 

 enough till March. He says he has never caught Rohu in these tanks, 

 and the fish I saw in the Hassan Saugar tank were Labeo calbasu. 



BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 

 North Canara District. 



Gairsoppa. 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. 



Keep 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 to a part of the river which is about 

 a mile from 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 " 

 are talked of therein, nothing definite is recorded over 5 Ibs. In the 

 rapids far above I saw S. kill one of 20 Ibs. weight, and we got others 

 of 6 Ibs. and 8 Ibs., but the majority of the Mahseer were very small, 

 say i Ib. and if Ibs., and the river seemed very 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 rivers in Mysore of which I have 

 seen anything ; for the river rises in Mysore. 



Kalanaddi. W. says that A. (a dark horse) fishes much in the 

 Kalanaddi from Bommanhalli down to about Ancholi, and he thinks for 

 Mahseer. But I don't warrant it a " straight tip." 



