Article content continued“One of them started to kind of acknowledge that yeah, the fish maybe hadn’t come from Lake Powell,” Washburn said. About seven months later, in May 2019, researchers stated that, based on the chemical evidence, the fish submitted by Dennett and Wootton could not have come from Lake Powell. According to the Times, the wildlife agency later found out that the two men had been fishing at another location just before the tournament. Professional fisherman Ron Colby told the Times that fishing tournaments tend to be more about the bragging rights than the actual prize money. “That’s what’s so crazy about somebody cheating in these events like this, because there is not a lot of money involved,” he said.

Source: National Post September 24, 2020 16:30 UTC