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place for fishing. A few may be had daily with atta, a few with live bait, 

 and in the evening a fly, but the fly must look something like a young fish, 

 as the time to catch with fly is when the young fish that have been kept 

 back all day by the people from the town coming for water, try to pass 

 round a rocky bluff in the hole, when the stream strikes them, and carries 

 them out a short distance, then the Mahseer rush at them, and make the 

 water boil. I have seen this at other places, and if you can manage to get 

 a fly there just as the boil is ceasing, you probably get a rise. Watching 

 the proceedings from a high bank above, after the rush is over, three or four 

 of the small fish will be seen twisting about in the water, injured by fins or 

 tails, I suppose ; and quite old stagers of Mahseer will be seen gleaning the 

 injured ones, and I always imagine in these cases that fly is mistaken for 



fish ; at all events it is a sure time to catch. 



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" PALE FACE." 



Sialkot. N. tells me the Poonch is within a night's run, and the 

 Cheenab, where Captain caught 294 Ibs. in one day's fishing. 



Poonah. O., from Poonah, speaks of running out to the Koomowlie, 

 a small river, but extraordinarily deep, averaging 60 feet deep, with 

 the bottom honeycombed with rocky cells and grottos, and holding 

 Mahseer of 50 or 60 Ibs. Dav too, is spoken of by the same corres- 

 pondent as near Poonah. He caught some sort of carp-like fish there 

 up to 25 Ibs., with the ground-nut for bait. Another day, in three hours, 

 he caught there six fish, weighing 75 Ibs. I cannot trace the places on 

 the map, but they are probably easily discoverable by people in the 

 locality. 



MAHSEER FISHING, NEAR ROORKEE. 

 Extract from the "Asian" of 2.$th November, 1879. 



" A few words now about Roorkee, and how to get there. It is situated 

 on the Ganges Canal, 24 miles from Saharunpore, a station on the Scinde, 

 Punjab, and Delhi railway. Daks are easily procured for going and 

 coming. The head-quarters of the Bengal Sappers and Miners are always 

 at Roorkee, also the head-quarters and a wing of a European regiment. 

 The Thomason Civil Engineering College is also located there, likewise 

 the Government Canal Workshops and Foundry, where you can get 

 anything from a sewing-machine needle to a wrought iron bridge. The 

 angler can also get artificial baits, gaff hooks, landing net rings, check- 

 winches, and other metal fishing appliances made to order there. The 

 dak bungalow is a comfortable one, within a stone's throw of the canal, 

 and all supplies are easily procurable. As all the fishing is either in the 



