APPENDIX A. 



lHIS Appendix is necessarily a mere skeleton, be< 

 it is unavoidably the result of only one individual's 1 

 ledge, and public officers in India have not leisure 

 express trains in all directions to aid them in expli 

 different fishing localities. In full knowledge ho\ 

 of its meagerness, it is nevertheless introduced mo: 

 a provocation, than any thing else, for other fisherm 

 throw together their local knowledge, and perhaps 

 day make up a useful compilation like "The An{ 

 Diary." 



Mahseer are to be found in all the large pere: 

 rivers of India that I know any thing of, and I beli 

 may say boldly in all. They are migratory, and are i 

 higher up or lower down the rivers, according to the s( 

 of the year, as already explained in connection with 

 spawning. They are to be killed in the runs. 



With these general rules before him the angle] 

 take his pick. All the rivers of the West Coast m£ 

 depended on, if you will only ascertain locally when 

 the runs. The natives are always for taking you t 

 large still pools. Eschew them, and seek only the : 



If you want the matter still further fined down, 

 I must give the actual spots I happen to know. 



