"IGFA had told me before they had never had a rule against a lure like mine”
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 12:00AM 
Rodney Ply reeled in the fish of his life last year on a lake in Arkansas but now the fight over that giant 68-pound striped bass is heading to court. Ply was participating in a Mustad hooks company event offering a million dollars to anyone who caught a world-record fish with one of its products and his catch beat the record by four pounds........ that will be one million dollars please.
Not so fast.
The International Game Fish Association ruled that the scale was fine and the weight was legitimate but rejected the record based on the lure that Ply used to catch it. What's a man with an Alabama/umbrella/spreader rig to do?
Ply's lawyers plan to file suit against the IGFA in the coming days. They say they believe IGFA made its ruling against Ply because it has a bias against freshwater fishing based on its own membership, which is largely made up of saltwater fishers. Ultimately winning the million dollars was a man who caught a saltwater tuna.
LINK (via: Local 10)