What’s more, these guys aren’t just dragging cheese balls on river bottoms. After a chat with a friend of mine, who also bass fishes professionally, I discovered that there’s a growing hardcore carp underground right here in the U.S.A. Bottom-sucking, rubber-lipped, fatso underachievers in the food chain. Still, I was surprised to learn that our fish-crazy nation is so disconnected from what many anglers would argue is the globe’s hottest piscatorial pursuit.

Not that Americans being out of sync with world opinion is a new phenomenon. Likewise, the golden grail for anglers from Europe and Asia isn’t the brown trout, or the blue marlin, or even the largemouth bass.

But in the States, soccer rates somewhere between bowling and cow tipping-or, for that matter, alongside carp fishing. The rest of the world is stark-raving mad about the sport “football” to the other 6.3 billion people on the planet), and the World Cup packs the promotional punch of three Super Bowls (the other “football”) and two Olympics combined. This story was published in the April 2008 issue.ĬARP FISHING is like soccer.

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