<Cauvery Fishing Camp 2000/2001

Family Fishing Camp 2000/2001

This trip was Grandma's idea for a family get together and vacation, a 10 day outing in south India centered around fishing for the big Mahseer at the fishing camp on the banks of the great Cauvery.

The trip to south India began right after Siddharth's wedding in Calcutta. We took the train down to Chennai, then to Tirupati and on to Bangalore. A major disaster was narrowly averted after we left Howrah without the all-important fishing rods! However, they were couriered on to Bangalore and arrived before we did. PHEW ! ;-)

We drove to the fishing camp from the Kabini River lodge, arriving well after dark after a nerve wracking drive. The Galibori camp is located about 90km (two and a half hours) south of Bangalore. It is one of three fishing camps run by the state owned 'Jungle Lodges and Resorts'.

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	�	Camp View The Galibori tented camp in a magnifcent Tamarind grove on the banks of the Cauvery. Without electricity, it has running water and hot water by the bucket. There are hammocks strung between the beautiful trees that were very popular in the afternoons.
Camp Beach The famous camp beach from where the grandsons pulled out a bunch of fish while the others slogged it out in more exotic locations. This was also an ideal spot for evening fishing and watching the morning sun break through the mists.	�
	�	Golghar The golghar where we were served delicious hot meals by the attentive staff of the camp. This was also the venue of afternoon card games where the grandsons took on their grandmother and taught here the finer points of being card sharps ;-) The golghar also doubled as a dance floor on new year's eve.
Coracles The coracles were used for fishing as well as ferrying people around the river. They are traditionally made by stretching buffalo hide over a bamboo frame. This makes them light, hard to destroy and easy to repair. You see here the bamboo frame, The complete Coracle with the oiled buffalo hide and a fiberglass replica. The fibreglass coracles are heavy, have no give and are not preferred by the locals.	�
	�	Coracal Fishing Being lightweight, the coracles can be transported by a single person. This makes them very useful to have around in sticky situations such as hooking a big fish in the rocky Mysore Madda rapids. The coracles are then used to navigate the rapids to free the line from under rocks where otherwise the line would be severed.
.. Landed two hours later the beautiful fish gives in - for the moment. This Mahseer weighing in at 49.5 lbs is Ajay's personal best.	�
	�	Pranav's First Fish Pranav, the youngest of the group was the most sucessful angler in terms of the number of fish pulled out in the short time the Kochhars were at the camp. Here he proudly displays his first catch while elder brother Dhruv (already successful) is amused by the size ;-)
Pranav eventually met the big one which broke him! The shikaree (ghille/guide) saw it and put it down as 20lbs. Pranav's first question when this one (33 lbs) was landed by granddad was "Is my hook in it?" An angler is born!	�
	�	The big one .. Granddad with his 88 lbr. Hooked in Mysore Mada it took off down a narrow chute thru the rock outcrop at the tail of the pool and was eventually landed a hour and 5 mins later, after a hot pursuit of half a mile, in the run below the next rapid.
Cheers !	�

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And now for the records ...

Fishing Log Cauvery 31 Dec 00 to 10 Jan 01

Date	Angler	Species	No	Wt.	Location	Time	Remarks
31-Dec	Dhruv	Mahseer	1	4.5	Galib. Camp Pool	5:30 PM	Dhruvs FIRST Mahseer
	Arti	Mahseer	1	1.5	Galib. Camp Pool	6:30 PM	Pranavs FIRST Mahseer
01-Jan	Ajay	Mahseer	1	27.5	Galib. Camp Pool	9:15 AM	Left bank little above camp beach
	Pranav	Carnatic	1	1.5	Galib. Camp Pool	9:30 AM
		Mahseer	1	2	Galib. Camp Pool	5:45 PM
		Carnatic	1	1.5	Galib. Camp Pool	6:00 PM
		Catfish	1	0.7	Galib. Camp Pool	6:30 PM
02-Jan	Ajay	Mahseer	1	49.5	Mysore Mada	11:25 AM	Took him down chutes below pool. Had to to fetch coracle. Took 2 hrs to land
	Cheri	Mahseer	1	2.5	Galib. Camp Pool	7:00 PM
	Dhruv	Mahseer	1	8	Galib. Camp Pool	6:30 PM
	Pranav	Mahseer	1	2	Galib. Camp Pool
		Carnatic	1	1.5	Galib. Camp Pool
		Mahseer	1	4	Galib. Camp Pool	12:30 PM	4lb-1oz!
		Mahseer	1	3	Galib. Camp Pool	6:45 PM
03-Jan	Dhruv	Mahseer	1	3	Galib. Camp Pool	6:45 PM
	Pranav	Mahseer	1	2	Galib. Camp Pool
		Mahseer	1	1	Galib. Camp Pool
04-Jan	Dhruv	Carnatic	1	2	Galib. Camp Pool	11:15 AM
		Mahseer	1	2	Galib. Camp Pool	11:45 AM
		Carnatic	1	1	Galib. Camp Pool	6:00 PM
	Pranav	Mahseer	1	1.5	Galib. Camp Pool	11:30 AM
		Mahseer	1	6	Galib. Camp Pool	6:30 PM
		Mahseer	1	0.5	Galib. Camp Pool
	Indu	Mahseer	2~	1.5
	Arti	Mahseer	1 ~	2	Galib. Camp Pool		Arti cast, Dhruv hooked the fish and handed rod back to Arti saying "Your fish!"
05-Jan	Moni	Mahseer	1	33	Rainer Point	11:00 AM	"L=40" x G=27.5" (15.25kg)
	Ajay	Mahseer	1	12	Crocodile Rock	6:15 PM
		Mahseer	1	25	Crocodile Rock	7:30 PM
		Catfish	3 ~	4	Crocodile Rock
	Cheri	Mahseer	1	1.5	Crocodile Rock
		Mahseer	1	2	Crocodile Rock
		Mahseer	1	2	Crocodile Rock
		Catfish	1	2	Crocodile Rock
		Catfish	1	2.5	Crocodile Rock
06-Jan	Moni	Catfish	2 ~	3	Crocodile Rock
	Indu	Catfish	1	6	Crocodile Rock
	Ajay	Catfish	3 ~	4	Crocodile Rock
07-Jan	Moni	Mahseer	1	88	Mysore Mada	11:30 AM	L=52" x G=33"
	Cheri	Mahseer	1	7.5	Mossle Halla Centre	10:30 AM
08-Jan	Moni	Mahseer	1	47	Mossle Hulla	12:30 PM	L=41" x G=27"
09-Jan	Moni	Mahseer	1	2.5	Crocodile Rock
		Mahseer	1	2	Crocodile Rock
		Mahseer	1	3	Crocodile Rock
		Catfish	1	2	Crocodile Rock
10-Jan	Cheri	Mahseer	1	26.5	Mossle Hulla

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