Imagine it's the winter of 1960 and you are having morning cup of tea in the small resthouse of Tangrot near the confluence of the River Jhelum and the Poonch. You arrived late in the evening and the ...

Gordon Mulley, a seasoned angler, can tell you exactly when he caught his very first mahseer. “It was the year 1966 and I was all of 16 when I found my big fellow in the rapids of the Cauvery, a ...

Fishing for mahseer in a well-stocked submontane river is, in my opinion, the most fascinating of all field sports. Our environments, even though we may not be continuously conscious of them, ...

So you tell your girlfriend that you’re going to take her angling: to the same river pool where Jim Corbett was pulled headlong into the water by a mahseer which, in his own words, “suddenly ...

Of all the freshwater fish on the planet, the mythical mahseer has to be one of the most awe-inspiring. Inhabiting the wild, fast-flowing rivers of the Himalayas, the species has captured the ...

The next time you head to the Darjeeling hills you can also pack your fishing kit. The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration has taken up an initiative to promote angling tourism along the Rangit and ...

The mahseer, that much sought-after game fish for anglers across the world, is in danger of fast disappearing, felled by global warming, rampant mining and the lack of a comprehensive policy on ...

Joe Assassa was the odds-on favourite to win the contest; after all he’d had 16 years to get to know the river well. He appeared to be on a personal quest — Operation Big — and had already caught some ...

So you tell your girlfriend that you’re going to take her angling: to the same river pool where Jim Corbett was pulled headlong into the water by a mahseer which, in his own words, “suddenly ...

The mahseer, that much sought-after game fish for anglers across the world, is in danger of fast disappearing, felled by global warming, rampant mining and the lack of a comprehensive policy on ...