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P a g e | 28 it away. Once cast out, it's pretty much a waiting minutes. game, hoping that a large fish will pick the bait Shortly up. On returning blank from our first 4 hour stint after a for a pretty tasty curry supper, it was apparent recast that getting a large fish was going to be a the considerable challenge; none of the 10 anglers moment on the camp had been successful. arrived that I had The pattern of the days to come was for a been morning's guided session from around 8am yearning though to 12.30pm, which was followed by a for, as I fried breakfast back at the camp. Afternoon's sat with were at leisure, with a choice of fishing for rod in smaller fish from the beaches in front of the hand, I camp, walking up river and then wading back had a through the rapids working lures, or simply violent One of the smarter guides… chilling out or even catching up with some sleep. take and the fish set off down river stripping line Myself and Mike fancied the more active style of from a tight drag. I had to dig in a bit, but fishing and we spent most of the afternoons managed to get the fish turned and heading up working lures. Around 4pm everybody would stream. Around 15 minutes later, after a dogged meet up again to head out for the evening battle in the deeper water and a few hairy sessions with the guides, typically finishing moments around some of those rocky ledges, around 8.30pm which was around 1 hour after we were able to bank a fish clearly in excess of the fall of darkness. the magical 50lb mark. The initial weigh in was a little inconclusive, but a quick call for reinforcements armed with a weigh bar meant that we were able to establish the weight at 64.5lbs - the biggest fish to be caught from the Galibore camp in the season to date. I was truly elated with the capture as I had set myself a target of a 50lb fish to feel like I had achieved success. To say the Mahseer is a stunning looking fish would be to do them an Fishing a serene morning session My personal highlight of the trip arrived on the 3rd evening session of the week, shortly after the fall of darkness. We had changed tactics to a ball of soft ragi, because after dark the small fish were not quite as active, so it was possible to keep a ball of soft bait out for maybe 10 - 15 Chris with a 35lb mahseer The above article has been contributed to the magazine courtesy of www.ebrocatfishing.com and therefore has not been edited or altered in any way.