OK just a quick report from Himachal Pradesh. I wish I could tell you stories of huge Trout making searing runs across pristine pools, sadly not so.
I stumbled across the river Tirthan on the internet. It's a small (by Indian standards) glacier fed river about 30 miles from Kullu. A tributary of the Parbatti, which eventually joins the Beas, the significant river in the area.
I was concerned with my timing for this trip as the annual monsoon is due to hit around now. I shouldn't have worried! Northern India is suffering an intense heatwave. So, there's no rain to colour up the rivers but the volume of snowmelt, due to higher temperatures, is significantly higher.
So, this 'beautiful clear stream' (as described to me at a tourist office), was actually a raging river, 95% of it was too fast to fish by any method.
The only hope was to fish the little 'pockets' of slower water, behind large rocks for example.
My heavily weighted nymphs searched out these areas pretty well but in 2 days hard fishing, I just had one pull.
The scenary made up for the blank, it was awesome!
Hopefully next time I'll be able to given a catch report, it's a long way to go to blank!!
I stumbled across the river Tirthan on the internet. It's a small (by Indian standards) glacier fed river about 30 miles from Kullu. A tributary of the Parbatti, which eventually joins the Beas, the significant river in the area.
I was concerned with my timing for this trip as the annual monsoon is due to hit around now. I shouldn't have worried! Northern India is suffering an intense heatwave. So, there's no rain to colour up the rivers but the volume of snowmelt, due to higher temperatures, is significantly higher.
So, this 'beautiful clear stream' (as described to me at a tourist office), was actually a raging river, 95% of it was too fast to fish by any method.
The only hope was to fish the little 'pockets' of slower water, behind large rocks for example.
My heavily weighted nymphs searched out these areas pretty well but in 2 days hard fishing, I just had one pull.
The scenary made up for the blank, it was awesome!
Hopefully next time I'll be able to given a catch report, it's a long way to go to blank!!