“foul province of Gyeonggi”…lol. Although you’re unfortunately right. As Seoul and the surrounding satellite cities keep growing, so does the pollution and the damage to the environment. Just in the last 2 years, some of the lakes we fish have turned from isolated, out of the way places, to heavily traveled and used bodies of water due to the numerous roads and buildings being built around them. It’s just going to keep getting worse.

“Shooting fish in a barrell”eh?

That’s cheating. The fish don’t stand a chance.

It’s about as difficult as arguing with MizS and proving that her idiotic assertions are flat wrong. Child’s play.

Better luck next time, Nomad. I’m sure those bass are fun, but if you want real fishing and a real fisherman’s challenge a la Hemingway, you need a flyrod, some hip waders, and a tarpon. Or a spear gun, snorkel, and a shark. Saltwater is where the real fish live, and like jerkbait said, real fishermen go in the water after them.

As for the carp snaggers, I seen a guy doing the same technique last week but he was much more aggressive. He had a saltwater rod and a heavy weighted treble hook the size of a fatman’s fist. The peasant heaved this rig over the shoulder and into the water and then jerked it back with a savage hoisting motion. While I watched him he snagged one carp in the eyeball that was as long as your arm. Once he landed it he stomped on its head to kill it but that didn’t work because his foot sank up to his shin in mud. The half-buried and dead carp flipped itself out of the mud-scum and it landed back in the water and swam away.

All good sport in the Korean hinterlands.

The dust wasn’t bad this morning and didn’t really start blowing in till around 10 or so and from then on it just got worse and worse. I had no idea that crap was coming today or I would have never gone out. I think Ron’s fish was around 2 pounds or so.

Next week I’m off to Seoul for my niece’s wedding so the bass are safe but after that…:)