# Cheating in prize fishing - how common is it?

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**Created:** [October 1, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-in-prize-fishing-how-common-is-it/972563 "2022-10-01T23:21:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-in-prize-fishing-how-common-is-it/972563/16 "2022-10-02T06:13:48Z")

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[Old thread I mentioned above.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fish-tale-legal-opinion/664702) It’s less about cheating and more about overturning a victory based on a technicality. The links are useless now so no idea who won but it was a $1 million dollar prize, not a minor thing. Looks like there’s a lot of sponsorship money involved. Not surprising the money is there, there are almost 60 million anglers in the US, more than all the golfers and tennis players combined. There’s a lot of money in fishing gear. If you can convince a fisherman that he’ll bring in more fish with a better reel or lure he’ll pay a lot for it. There’s a saying in the biz that big fish go for big name lures.

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