While the attention of many sports fans is fixed upon the football world cup in America, carp fishing enthusiasts will instead be staring with no less intensity at the waters of pleasant Lake Baļote, waiting for that all-important twitch on the line that signals another spectacular scaly score.
The competition regime is strict – these world-class athletes spend four days in their own section of the lake, sleep only a few hours and are allowed to visit the facilities only when ac...