[briansnat]

When I was a kid I used to catch some huge carp next to the Union Ave bridge between Passaic and Rutherford. No reason to think they aren't still there. At the time the river was so polluted that I would try not to even handle the fish. I would get them on shore, cut the line and tie on a new hook. The river is much cleaner now.

I don't enjoy fishing for carp these days though I know they provide a legendary fight. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it is my associating them with polluted water and generally unappealing places to fish or perhaps because they seem so butt ugly to me, or a combination of all three.