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Article: From around the world, they come for the 'big fish'
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- AP Worldstream
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- September 18, 2002
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Dateline: SARULESTI, Romania
Somewhere, rumor has it, there's a 90-pound (40-kilogram) carp lurking
at the bottom of Sarulesti Lake.
And more than 200 fisherman from 30 countries _ with good reason to
believe this is no tall tale _ have descended on this bleak plain
to reel in the elusive creature.
"That's why we come all this way _ for the big fish," a 41-year-old
British angler Steve Briggs said Tuesday, the halfway point of the
fishing World Cup, a six-day tournament.
An 82-pound (37-kilogram) carp was caught in the man-made lake in
1998 by an Austrian, and that remains the world record for common
carp.
This carp haven was a collection of four villages ...