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Mazhar’s Tackle shop in keamari was the scene of a highly successful informal seminar on saltwater angling on the evening of wednesday the 19th of August.

20-25 new anglers took part in an interactive and informative seminar on basic to intermediete level concepts of saltwater angling.

After a brief introduction to the PGFA and its objectives, each new angler was invited to share his present experience of angling and what his aims are for the future. Once familiar with our audience, the discussion moved towards a host of pre-arranged topics meant to deal with all the fundamentals of the sport in a logical order.

Topics covered included:

• Bait fishing
• Trolling
• Casting (with a brief reference to jigging)
• Tackle and terminal tackle
• Drag and its caliberation
• Reading the water - tides, moon phase, weather,
• Where to fish
• Species wise information
• Safety

Given the immensity of these topics those areas which the audience by popular demand showed the most interest in were given more time.

A rich tapestry of experienced anglers were present to comment and explain each topic and this way a variety of opinions were shared with what has to be

described as an excellent and eager to learn audience. It was this combination of experience and new enthusiasm that gave the meeting a special quality which

no one person speaking alone could possibly achieve. This sort of collaboration to enhance participation in the sport is the very embodiment of the PGFA way.

Since all anglers love to talk, the idea was to put all this chatter to useful purpose and give some direction to an excellent group of new anglers.

The fact that four hours flew by without any participant budging from thier seats itself showed the success of the event and by popular demand as soon as

info@pgfa.org recieves enough requests for another seminar team PGFA will be ready to arrange it.

Photos Here

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PGFA/photos/album/695475990/pic/list

Regards,

Team PGFA

lets all khadda anglers go together in a bigger boat with popper kitchen, beds etc., N a kemari boat for each team and stay there for few days, like 2/3? see in our trips to khad we always got few hours of fishing windows, which isn’t enough?

By Ali Mufti

Hi,
I am proceeding to shandur in first week of july via Gilgit from
Rawalpindi. Can anyone advise me what angling options can i avail and
what type of fish is available?

Regards

Tahir Kayani

While we are still working around the clock to get the site 100% again here are a few new things that are going to enhance everyones pleasure when surfing your very own angling encyclopedia - the pgfa website.

1. photo section.
If you scroll to the bottom right of the homepage (in the fishing in pakistan section) you will see a photo section. Before a member would have to click on the link to the pgfa forum and THEN access the picture. Now it is direct on the homepage. We look forward to many more interesting pictures and videos from here onwards.

2. The Official PGFA Blog
Now, in addition to the forum which is the only place where discussions are taking place, the official PGFA BLOG will soon be up as well. A fantastic new development, the blog will allow may new features to be incorporated into the general discussions and chats that are taking place presently in the forum.

Stay posted for other exciting development in the near future

Team PGFA