Goa Fishing advice

Well made it back to the land of rain I never made it to Pedros in Baga. I
stayed in Candolim and managed a few hours fishing off Coco Beach with
Blacky's crew. Well we see Dolphins aplenty but alas the fishing was poor
and for 900 rupees and hour trolling with no rewards tried hand at some
bottom fishing. Unfortunatelly not a lot caught had a puffer fish which
captain decided he wanted to blow up till the poor thing nearly went pop.
Also few ugly spiny things .
I helped some local nets men pull in from beach and they caught mullet and
squid which where hurriedly whisked away to nearby beach shacks. The rod
anglers blamed overfishing with nets a familiar story.
Still had a great time and hope you come back with a bucket load.

Abu

"Michael Musgrave" wrote in
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If you go to the Baga end you will see a shack called Boscos, it is one of
the bigger shacks. They have their own boats and if you talk to Pedro
(very fat Goan), he will take you out on a fishing trip for a few Rupees.
I went last year and gave them a few of my old rods, Pedro still liked to
use a piece of coconut shell with some old line wrapped around it. When
fishing off the boats you use a minimal amount of lead. The locals only
use medium sized nuts or bolts to hold the bottom, uptiding has yet to
reach Goa! Catches vary and I caught catfish and rock fish, well that is
what Pedro called them. Both these fish have nasty poisonous spines, so
caution is needed. I used king prawn as bait. Beach fishing is also quite
good, again using king prawns and a little squid that they gave me from
Bosco's Shack. You can see the locals using the casting nets, and I ended
up buying one for around £20.00 and that included an hours worth of
lessons. Not a bad price since these nets take around three weeks to make
by hand. I will be back at the shack in February for three weeks. Their
rainy season is very good fishing, and locals say they catch enormous cat
fish to around 30lb. Let the news group know how you get on.