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The record 20pounder murrell caught in Hyderabad

Wt.... Never seen a murrell that big Arish...

Oh WOW!!!!!! that is a monster.. its huge.. amazing..

wow

Thanks guy for your positive comments

Not much is known to me about the story behind this murrell except that it was caught in June '11 using spinner and shared by Shadab bhai on FB. Perhaps Shadab bhai knows about the story. The angler might be the friend of close friend of Shadab bhai.

Thanks And Regards
Arish

Hi,

I saw the snaps of this murrel few months back. I saw the digital scale at 11+........this is what i remember.

This was shot by a gun near bhopal.

Cheers
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it was shot in bhopal and not cought on tackle. it too heard the same story.

Oops..

so thats how the cookie crumbles... what a let down..

I don't know whether the information is correct or not. I and shadab bhai respect everyone's view. What I know and what I heard is what I have shared. Earlier it was the Dawood bhai's episode where in he used his tale to raise 2 more kilogram to his Murrell. And here too comes the same scene

As far as this murrel is concerned, Shadab bhai who got info about this murrell from Lin replied "Lin said it was caught by Sohail in a private lake in Hyderabad, I don't know if he was himself there but I have no reason not to believe him, its also possible that he wanted to cover up shooting story so may be he lied but unless we have reliable info we should not make up stories"

Anglers and their tales

Regardless of how it was caught. This is truly a giant murrel no denying that. We had discussed on this forum about a 10 kg murrel since long and this is the first time that we get to see a picture of some thing around that magic mark.

I am sure that this will go a long way in motivating our anglers to go after that dream fish:-).
Thanks Arish for posting the picture

Jeen

Yes Jeen,

You're right. It is certainly a motivation.

For users of IA, i remember 7kg mark was something like the biggest.

There are locations in Andhra Pradesh which contain murrel of 10-20kg trophy sizes. Specially in the lakes which are connected to Krishna river and downstream of Srisailam dam.

Arish: That murrel is different and was also shot in a private lake in karnataka


Cheers
Salim
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Shooting Murrel is very common.

Maybe you guys should also look at this..

" This species is a large snakehead with adults commonly reaching lengths of 120-122 cm (Talwar and Jhingran, 1992). In Maharashtra State,
India, it can reach a length of 1.8 m and a weight of 30 kg, and was observed to reach a length of 30 cm in 1 year (Talwar and Jhingran, 1992). "

http://fisc.er.usgs.gov/Snakehead_circ_ ... inued.html


(The link is not working anymore.. )

Hyderabadi Stories are legendary. Phekne mein ustaad.

No offence to anyone in particular.

Apologies in advance. But fact is a fact.

Hooked or shot....doesn;t matter...

This snap truly proves that Monster Murrall does exist

so what say Mob...Lets get them....ah..i mean Hook them....

Not in Hyderabad

I wish some good anglers hook these big monsters someday :)