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The Week contest: Fishing fraud

This week's question:  The joint winners of an Ohio bass fishing tournament were stripped of their prizes when the bass they caught were found to have lead weights inside their stomachs. Please come up with a name for a true-crime film about these fishing fraudsters.

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RESULTS:

 THE WINNER: "Hook, Lies, and Sinker"

Hunter Burgan, Los Angeles, California

 SECOND PLACE: "Every Trick in the Brook''

Jeff Jerome, Northampton, Massachusetts

THIRD PLACE: "Leadbelly Blues"

Jay Detweiler, Goshen, Indiana

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"Checkbait"

Bill Homrig, Fort Wayne, Indiana

"Dirty Herring"

Lynn Morales, Los Osos, California

"Weigh It Again, Sam''

Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California

"The One That Got a Weight"

Dedra Gibson, Lawrenceville, Illinois 

"Ocean's Eleven-Pound Bass"

Norm Carrier, Flat Rock, North Carolina

"Skimming with the Fishes"

Joe Ayella, Wayne, Pennsylvania

"Bait and Switch"

Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana

"Feigning Nemo''

George Strong, Plano, Texas

"Portrait of a Serial Filler''

Jon Lindsey, New York City, New York

"Fraud and Reel"

Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts

"Fin City"

Rebecca Burgan, Grass Valley, California

"The Weighting Game"

Carol Joseph, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

"Fattened Chances"

Steven Stewart, Carlsbad, California

"The Ten-Pound Guppy"

Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts 

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