Hookjaw
Steelhead
The Mahseer and our local yellowfish species are related, yes. Allthough that one in the video is a baby still.native to India, etc. You can HEAR them at night moving rocks around looking for crabs etc...freaky.
They attain lengths in excess of 9 feet and more than 50kg!!
Check them out: (courtesy of: http://www.angling-travel.com/mahseer.html)
No PhotoShop involved, just in case you are wondering!
Steelhead
I am just writing a little thing on this exact theory...
YES...
They are both very ancient species, as they have been around from before India split and raced off north...
Mike
I'll post the link latter...
Mike McKeown
You're either fishing or waiting...
Steelhead
So when are we going, with 12 weights???Originally Posted by MaXiMuM
Steelhead
Heres the fish base link...
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Spec...ry.php?id=9194
And I am glad you're going to give them a bash with a 12w, check their habitat, they like fast water... 14w's here we come...
Watched a thing on Indian river fishing, the dude was fishing a true salt water outfit, and still couldnt land a big one... had his reel smashed, broke a rod, SMOKED good and proper...
Mike
Mike McKeown
You're either fishing or waiting...
Steelhead
None of the scientist will write down that they are related, but the "experts" say they are one and the same...
Mike
Mike McKeown
You're either fishing or waiting...
Steelhead
Yeah in fact, I have seen no articles or clips of anyone catching these mahseer on fly, only saltwater rods and Penn reels! They are beasts apparently.
Hookjaw
about time we go get some mahseer scales and LMY scale and do some DNA testing...any excuse to get one!
Steelhead
Masheer on Fly
Last edited by BuzzLiteBeer; 11-02-08 at 10:12 AM.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
Steelhead
Look forward to your erudite writings, Mike! As you say, both Yellows and mahseer belong to the big Cyprinidae family. I think Mahseer branch off officially into a subfamily Cyprininae, and the Yellows (along with English barbel and the like) branch off into the Barbus genus. I havn't a clue how that all works, but as everyone seems to be in agreement, they all look far too much alike not to be closely related.
A couple of my old British Army forebears used to head off to Kashmir for a bit of mahseer fishing to escape the hot and humid summers further south. The one was a salmon flyfisher, and he used Hardy 14 and 16 foot double-handed rods with Devon minnows (sort of 'primitive' Rapala but very good) and fly spoons which are basically a single hook with a spoon on it. They also used to use salmon flies like the Night Hawk and Black Doctor. For smaller fish they'd use single-handed sea trout rods and use sea trout flies like the Medecine and Black Pennell or Butcher. All of these flies have a big amount of black for silhouette. The guys using the fly rods apparently didn't always go after the monsters, but were happy getting 10/20 pounders! The other guy used to bait fish but I shudder to think what type of tackle he used!
I'd love to go there one day and see for myself, probably like lots of you guys!
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