As some of you you know, I spent a couple of years in India in the '70s. I lived not far from Dhillon Sahib's city of Chandigarh in a small town located on the banks of the Sutlej River (one of the 5 rivers that make up the Indus River drainage) in the northwester state of Punjab. I spent my time doing dairy development work. I kick myself now for not taking some time to fish the river. The name of the town is Rupnagar (Ropar back then) and is the site of a dam that creates a lake which stores water for irrigation to the south. The lake that Misty talks of fishing, Govind Sagar, is upstream from here on the Sutlej, behind the Bakra-Nangal dam, which provides hydropower and irrigation as well.

I long to return to Punjab and hope that someday I have the opportunity to do so. But, this time, I'll have fly rod along!!

Jeff