Speedsters

[headbanger_jib]

Yeah there's this whole angling tourism industry behind this.

Even down south you got the khudree angling

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Of the khudree ???
My place is close by to cauvery river, I see very very big specimens, 20" and above, and this place is protected for the crocs

The classification of khudree is controversial at the moment, as the current fish shown by me as khudree is considered as a hybrid, raised in Maharashtra, the true khudree apparently is lost, and not many pics of them available

No, the giant-growing ones - Humpback mahseer, Tor putitora, Tor tor, and maybe Copper mahseer. Khudree is a small fish, maxing out at 50 cm or as you observed at 20".

 

[headbanger_jib]

No, the giant-growing ones - Humpback mahseer, Tor putitora, Tor tor, and maybe Copper mahseer. Khudree is a small fish, maxing out at 50 cm or as you observed at 20".

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The putitora is fiercely protected for the angling tourism and religious concerns, if you check the angling sites you'll see really big specimens still being caught in the river.

The humpback Mahseer is yet to be described correctly along with distribution and range.

 

[headbanger_jib]

A friend of mine who is an ichthyologist is currently working on the south Indian mahseer

 

[headbanger_jib]

The tor musullah is wiped out, people still say there are some pockets where they are found, but no confirmed reports or findings

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

The putitora is fiercely protected for the angling tourism and religious concerns, if you check the angling sites you'll see really big specimens still being caught in the river.

Thanks and good to know. I've seen the anglers with 2'-3' putitora. Never with larger ones. Never 5'-6'+. Maybe I should look more. But in any case, I've struggled to reconcile even the anglers' photos with 2'-3' putitora with this statement from FishBase http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Tor-putitora.html

"Specimens over 30 cm and 5 kg in weight are rarely caught in recent times (Ref. 41236)." It comes from this reference: Menon, A.G.K., 1999. Check list - fresh water fishes of India. Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Misc. Publ., Occas. Pap. No. 175, 366 p.

The tor musullah is wiped out, people still say there are some pockets where they are found, but no confirmed reports or findings

That's so saddening.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

... But in any case, I've struggled to reconcile even the anglers' photos with 2'-3' putitora with this statement from FishBase http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Tor-putitora.html

"Specimens over 30 cm and 5 kg in weight are rarely caught in recent times (Ref. 41236)." It comes from this reference: Menon, A.G.K., 1999. Check list - fresh water fishes of India. Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Misc. Publ., Occas. Pap. No. 175, 366 p.

headbanger_jib what's your read on that?