The coast of Mumbai is where it's at on weekends for the members of the club, who are in it for leisure, adventure and love of nature, not for commercial gain. They indulge in what is called sport fishing, a speedier form of the traditional fishing whereby the anglers do not have to wait for hours for the chance of a fish to swim by. And the sport survives. The club has tow speed boats and a fishing trawler, graciously lent to it by one of the anglers. Members of the club chip in with funds - a day's trip to the deep costs Rs.7,000 .
Sports fishing is no child's play.
It is one of the most technically and artistically precise jobs. The equipment used, the kind of fish that must be caught, the area to be concentrated on are no easy decisions. Most of the equipment has to be imported since fishing as a hobby is hardly practiced in India. Installed in a boat the former gives an angler a detailed pattern of the ocean floor, along with the fish at the bottom. The GPS plots the boat's position using satellite imaging.