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mostly with a small Luscombe fly spoon, and sometimes a larger spoon 

 but always a single-handed trout rod. Another officer did better with 

 a salmon rod, and advises it. But I should say the bigger rod must 

 have spoiled the sport^ though it may have increased the bag. 



Poonah. There is a river not very far from Poonah where good 

 Mahseer have been killed, and other fishing-grounds, for which please 

 see Poonah, in Chapter XIX., on the fishing on hill sanatoria. 



Ganjam and Vizagapatam Districts. The good fellow who writes 

 the following knows how to. sympathise with men going to a new place, 

 and unable to get information as to the localities for fishing. There 

 will be readers who will be very thankful for his kindly trouble taken 

 on their behalf: 



" I have for a long time intended to write to you in response to your 

 call on all fishermen out here to give you details of fishing localities, etc., in 

 your great book invaluable to every Indian fisherman, and especially so to 

 those who, like myself, knew but little of the art before coming out here. 

 My experience is not large, and I only know two districts Ganjam and 

 Vizagapatam and the Jeypur hills having spent seven years in those parts. 

 But, as your book contains no details of localities from those parts, perhaps 

 my small knowledge of them might be useful. 



" To take Ganjam first. I do not really know much about the fishing 

 there, as I spent most of my time in the Southern Division, and the fishing 

 is mostly in the north. I don't know of any fly-fishing up there except 

 that for chelas, which exist in places, but there is good spinning for sea-fish 

 in the Chilka Lake, and especially in the canal running from the Chilka 

 Lake to Ganjam, also in the mouths of the Rushikuliya (Ganjam) and 

 Languliya (Chicacole) rivers. 



" In Vizagapatam, I must confess with shame that the fish in the 

 estuaries have beaten me completely, and I can give no accurate informa- 

 tion about them. It is a treat to see them running at the small fish in the 

 estuary at Vizagapatam when the tide is running in or out, especially just at 

 the end of the ebb. The same thing in the estuary at Bimlipatam, where I 

 saw a native pull out a 4-lb. sea-fish one day on a dead bait with a bamboo 

 and a bell-rope. I have only had three or four tries at these places, and 

 have failed to get anything. But there is no doubt that the fishing is there 

 for anyone who would go in for it in a business-like way. The only chances 

 I have ever had there were when spending an odd week or so there on leave 

 or occasional duty. 



" There are lots of chelas in all the tanks in the district of any size that 

 I know, but the tanks are few of them full in the dry weather, and the chelas 

 run very small indeed. 



" The only part I really know much about from a fishing point of view is 



