The term ‘Mighty Mahseer’ first appeared in 1903 in the title of a book on angling in India written by an Englishman who used the nom de plume skene Dhu. Having learnt their fishing in the trout and salmon waters of England, these anglers learnt to prize and cover the noble mahseer, not only for the large size it attained but also for its indomitable fighting spirit. As early as 1873, H.S. Thomas the Izaac Walton of Indian angling literature had stated that pound for pound, the mahseer was a fish superior in sporting qualities even to the ‘lordly salmon’, and coming from an Englishman as it did, that was high praise indeed. The record mahseer taken by Mr J. deWet Van Ingen in 1946 weighed 120 lbs! Major A St.. J. MacDonald is the doyen of Himalayan and Burmese angling and his book Circumventing the Mahseer, is recognized as a classic on the subject. It is reprinted now for those anglers who would like to relive their golden memories of ‘Ye Fine Fyshing of Ye Past’ and for a younger generation of aspiring anglers who need to learn all there is about this magnificent fish before it disappears from the Indian rivers.
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