SOME GAME PISHES OF liSTDIA 



consult Day, as space permits only a very general mention of the 

 fishes in the present volume. The best rivers for mahseer are in 

 Mysore, the Cavery, the Bawanny, the Kistna, the Tungabudra, 

 and the Godarery. Another mahseer is the Carnatie carp, and 

 there are many more, nearly all good fighters on light pliable rods. 



Good mahseer fishing is to be had, according to Mr. Eeginald 

 Bolster, in the rocky streams that drain the Sulliman Hills on 

 the Punjab-Baluchistan border. The Kah^ Eiver particularly 

 is a good stream, rising at an elevation of 4,000 feet and reaching 

 the sea on the plains near the old fort of Harrand in the Dera- 

 Ghazi Khan District of the Punjab. Mr. Bolster took seventy- 

 five fish, whose aggregate weight was nearly one hundred pounds. 

 He used a spoon and a paste of flour, which was particularly 

 killing. 



It is an interesting fact that a number of fishes will take a fly 

 in India, whose cousins in other parts of the world would not be 

 suspected of this habit. There are ten species of the Chilwa, a 

 long slender silvery fish, resembUng the tarpon. They are little 

 fishes, and many of them will take a fly. The Barils (Barilius) 

 afford good sport, fourteen or more kinds being known in all 

 India. Nearly all have a trout-like habit of rising to a fly. 

 Barilius bola looks not unlike a grayling, without the big dorsal. 

 Thomas caUs it the Indian trout. 



I have referred to fortunate anglers. Permit me to quote 

 from a letter to Mr. Marston, editor of the Fishing Gazette, from 

 an English officer who claims to be an unlucky angler. To my mind, 

 he presents an fllustration of a perfect angler. I regret I can- 

 not quote his name, but his nom de plume is ' Ghadran,' and his 

 paper on mahseer flshing in Burmah in the Gazette of December 

 7, 1912, cannot fail to be of interest to anglers in the Orient. 

 He says, and my apologies and sincere thanks are due for quot- 

 ing so extensively from the paper : 



I HAVE the reputation for keenness in the superlative degree, so that on 

 being transferred by a very kindly (as I thought then) Government to 



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