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Sometimes anglers can fib, sometimes not


Banks Lake is one of the region's favorite bass-fishing waters. 
 (Rich Landers / The Spokesman-Review)
Banks Lake is one of the region's favorite bass-fishing waters. (Rich Landers / The Spokesman-Review)

FISHING -- The fine art of fibbing is in a fisherman's DNA.

But when $50,000 is involved, even anglers have to bite the bullet at one annual fishing contest in the East.

The New Hampshire Union Leader reports anglers in the Winni Derby will have to pass a lie detector test before they can claim a prize.  

Would you approve of a fishing contest in which all anglers weren't trusted? Honestly?

Even if you wouldn't cheat at a fishing derby, plenty of people would. Read here. And here. And the old lead weigh trick, here.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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