Obtuse,

I've stated before that I don't like fly fishing competitions, especially trout. Having said that, consider this.
You write:
"I bet the Europeans wouldn't have quite such a lock on the gold if the World Championship were truly a fly fishing world championship rather than the world championship of European-style trout fishing."
I may be mistaken, but wasn't one of the trout fly fishing championships, won by the Europeans, held here in the US?

Allan