These past several years, more and more people are bass fishing. The sport has even spawned a cultural backlash. Drawing on traditional suspicion of foreigners, commercial fishermen have complained that American imports are devouring native fish. A government effort to evict the aggressive fish from moats around the Imperial Palace made national news last fall, and a Japanese TV network sent a reporter last spring to Lake Fork as part of its coverage of the ongoing bass flap. They say those fish are not native fish in Japan, and now bass fishing has become more and more popular, they say that the plastic worms people use have chemicals in them that aren't good for the lakes.
People say that's pollution.
Everybody understands this is a good thing. That heightens the appeal for many Japanese, he and others say. Most then spend hours ogling the vast array of fishing tackle. A computer expert for a Japanese toy manufacturer, he avidly reads fishing magazines and regularly watches Japan's most popular weekly fishing show, Senya Choko . He and most other visitors shun traditional Dallas and Fort Worth tourist stops, preferring to head straight to Axton's Bass City.