Wall Street Journal article on US carping

[Newt]

See any differences in US vs. UK carping - at least in the public perception?

 

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[Peter Waller]

The number one evasives species, ummmmmmmm, no further comment !

[slodger]

Actually Newt there's a growing trend over here amongst 'retro-traditional' anglers. We're beggining to realise that they aren't healthy in all waters. In fact they're becoming a threat, in some of our rivers, to the indigenous species.

 

Like many other anglers I became transfixed by the carp 'fever', almost to the point of exclusion of other species myself in the 80's. Nowadays I treat them the same as any other fish i.e I fish for them occasionally. In fact they're probably at the lower end of my own personal choice of 'what to fish for'.

 

I'm not sure they'll ever gain the popularity in your country, that they have over here. The accepted methods of angling for carp are a million miles from the traditional USA styles of fishing. 'Sit and wait' tactics just don't fit into your angler's remit do they?

 

There again, perhaps your boy's will pioneer a new style of bagging them on artificials. They're far more predatory than many anglers realise.

[Randy]

I honestly don't think the carp will ever gsin the following that they have in Europe. Carp are beginning to get a following among fly fishermen here who consider them the "freshwater bonefish".

 

Twice a year usually in May and November there is a tounament in Windsor Ont. Canada where the main quarry is carp. I have a friend that fishes in this tounament and he is the one who really got me started in learning more about match fishing and float fishing in general.

 

I've taken some of the principals used and applied them to my steelhead and salmon fishing in the rivers and I've really increased my catch rate because of it.

 

Randy

[Bait-Slinger]

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Little wonder that BASS LLC., the bass-fishing organization owned by Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN network, boasts 550,000 members, while the not-for-profit Carp Anglers Group claims just 700.

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I don't know that I would agree with those numbers on either side. There are far more Carp anglers than the numbers show. Many people are embarrassed to be known as a "Carp fisherman". While sporting a "B.A.S.S." sticker on your vehicle somehow puts you in the company of people like Bill Dance or Kenny what's-his-name. Also from a monetary standpoint Bass fisherman have a far superior campaign of promtion than do the Carp anglers. But things are looking up in the US Carp world with events like the WCC, ATC and CCC. There may come a day in the US when Carp fisherman will have there own little outfits like the Flyfisherman and Bass anglers. Wait a minute, Carp Angler's do have their own uniform it'a called a "Cloak of Anonymity"

[Peter Waller]

I reckon that England is giving carp fishing to the US in revenge for McDonalds, Jehovah's Witnesses, baseball caps and tobacco!

[Bait-Slinger]

NO Trade Backs.............we'll keep Carp fishing

[Peter Waller]

How about if we throw in Jerry Springer as well?

[Chris Goddard]

Over here in the great wilds of YORKSHIRE a lean to means a site more than it does in the good ol' US of A!!

But as with all things they take a lot longer to take root over there than they do over here!!

Jerry who??? Ahh yes!! the low life who came from here and ended up over ther!!(SIC)

[Bruno Broughton]

From what I have seen when fishing extensively in the States, there are probably already more carp anglers there than in the UK.

 

Indeed, one senior figure in the UK tackle trade reckon there were more in New York state alone!

 

But... they are largely drawn from the ethnic minorities, they have cheap and pretty crap tackle, they fish city waters... and the catch is destined for the pot.

 

Those I encountered used celluloid red-n-white clip-on floats ('bobbers'), spiralling across the surface line of 50lb b.s. or more, big baitholder hooks baited with chicken guts and forked sticks for rod rests.

 

A marketing opportunity they are not - no cash.

 

[ 28. March 2005, 01:05 AM: Message edited by: Bruno Broughton ]