SOME GAME FISHES OF INDIA 



May 16. — 62 pounds, 11 pounds, 16 pounds. Got broken twice in 

 rocks. 



May 17. — 10 pounds, 5 pounds. Morning and afternoon. Broken 

 twice. 



May 18. — 48 pounds, 8 pounds, 58 pounds. Morning and afternoon. 



Twelve days' actual fishing. Forty-one fish landed, averaging 35^ 

 pounds. Total weight, 1,466 pounds. Largest fish, 90 pounds ; length, 

 60 inches ; girth, 34 inches. 



The best fish in the above bag is 90 pounds, and the modem and most 

 authentic record for a mahseer caught with rod and line stands at 104 

 pounds, caught near Coorg, in Madras, where a lucky angler scored a 

 century (103 pounds and 104 pounds) two seasons running, so there was 

 a good chance of record breaking it the Irrawaddy proved as productive 

 as in 1908. The actual bag made on the Irrawaddy is given below, to- 

 gether with the sport obtained on smaller rivers, and reveals a sorry 

 attempt to get a specimen mahseer : — 



* Unweighed. 



It would be of little interest to home readers to discuss theories to 

 accoimt for the lamentable failure in the Irrawaddy, but it sufi&ces to say 

 that no good bags have been made for two or three years, and that all the 



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