…………………………………………………………………………………… Lion in Gujarat
Every once in a while a senior citizen comes on Television shouting his heart out saying " Kuch din to guzaro Gujarat mein " I am damm sure we all have seen him during the ads on prominent TV channels, my youngest son claims that it is Amitabh Bachachan !! and I am dam 2 sure that Amitabh-G wouldn't be working at this age ,
its definitely his Duplicate or body double!! .Feeling pity for an old man who still has to earn his bread by pleading n promoting the already Vibrant Gujarat to millions of watchers, so I now decide to help him by visiting Gujarat not as a tourist but as an Angler and I already had received many open invitations from my chela ---> Aamir Bhavnagari for fishing on the Gujarat coast , it was me who was not willing to go that far due to many reasons. but now I had decided to go , I informed the excited Aamir about my decision .
It would be a blatant LIE if I said " I got a sudden call and I picked up my tackle and went fishing "
although many anglers regularly use this line to fool those who they don't want to take along ,This trip was carefully planned well in advance train tickets were booked , I boarded the train at night and reached Ahmedabad before the break of dawn to find Aamir ready at the station to welcome me . later Dr Yasser and Abid bhai also joined us and thus began our foursome journey towards some fishy destinations ,
while Aamir was driving we never even once had a chance to listen to any music in the car , we were busy talking about almost everyone from Jeremy wade to the famous Jealous Jerks in the Angling world . LOL
I learned that quite a few Toms , Dicks ,Harry and Hairy Larrys were desperately dying to come to Gujarat and they were all very astutely kept at bay with proper excuses .
I was pretty amused to hear that some Mr Dick
(probably from David Copperfield) was always calling up and asking for the
dates to book his train tickets 
and others were hell bent in simply buttering and
trying to lick him from all 6 sides 
all just for an invite to Gujarat and Aamir seemed to very smartly handle the situation to his advantage 
and enjoy the undivided attention and affection showered on him , he has even got memberships of some lesser known fishing groups .
Out of my many dozen chelas I was now beginning to feel proud of this extra smart chela 
and why should I not ??
after-all I am his Ustad ( his own words ) 
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while listening to Aamir as he was busy doling inputs about various anglers I quickly recalled the very first contact that Aamir had made to me on a once active fishing forum some 4.5 years back, I am sharing just two letters to show how very good he is in convincing people
and getting what he wants 
If I remember correctly my reply to the above message was as mentioned below
Dear Aamir ,
regards
Sayed / lionheart
Lol... now this smart fella is calling me an Angel and above all Invoking as reference the Quote of our Beloved PROPHET ( peace be upon him) I cannot deny him now !! and so I called him to Konkan coast two times and poured into him what all knowledge I had about Fishing, I showed him which lure will work on which fish, he practiced his lessons thoroughly in six days of non stop Angling in some of my best Secret locations , on the very first day in Konkan we had collectively caught 33kg of fish comprising mainly of Barramundi in just two hours and after that he was no more called dr murrell but now a hardcore Saltie
we reached the place at noon and started to fish while our local friends netted some crabs and snappers for lunch
they painstakingly cleaned and marinated the fish in their local style
So strong was the love and affection shown by the locals that I never worried about getting a food infection 
Fresh bread , Freshly fried Fish and Crab stew = Attack !!! and don't look either way until all is finished 
three days of fishing day n night and yet no Fish ?? except for Abid bhai who baited a fingermark after sunset
I suddenly realize that my KONKAN is a lot better than Gujarat !! Its now Obvious that the locals have taken up Angling in a big way, some locals seem to compete with us in angling, wherever we quietly went they also would reach the place in no time and start casting, at one point I felt this place is soon going to be another copy of Madh (Mumbai) one sign of feeding and there is a shower of poppers & lures , the fish had now started to shy away from lures ( Branded lures & unbranded) and I met many locals who sourced their tackle from shop owners at Masjid Bunder ( Mumbai) Aamir has fished here many times and he too had returned empty handed on quite a few occasions, after this trip I am not that enthusiastic about visiting Gujarat again I strongly believe in Destiny and whatever is there in it for me ordained by my LORD then No Mai ka Laal will stop me from getting it anywhere , anytime 
I also want to take up the challenge of " who blinks first " but I can't !!! because of my Superman like deadly laser vision I can burn him to ashes in seconds but as you know with Power comes responsibility , so I quickly cover my eyes with my new Berkely Polarized sunglases and save the poor FellowLol I was just
kidding in fact this Annachi was a gentle giant we chatted all thru the journey and he willingly gave a serious pic for my blog 
All you folks who are habituated to seeing the Lion come back triumphantly and pose with catches should see that its perfectly normal to came back empty handed without any catch ,
so next time you don't get any fish on your trip ! you can verily console your tired self saying " Even the Lion comes back without a Kill "
Special Thanks to Kasam bhai, Akbar bhai , Yusuf Bhai for their wonderful hospitality
and also to Aamir ,Yasser and Abid bhai for making this trip a memorable one
”Fishing is a constant
reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The
forces of nature discriminate for no man.” - Herbert Hoover
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