FISH?

Why the choice of fish? An explanation takes us back in time to Cleopatra and the hoax she made against Roman lover Marco Antonio during a fishing competition. Antonio, in order not to run the risk of a humiliating defeat, had instructed a slave to secretly attack his prey on the hook, but the Queen of Egypt, discovered the deception, had a giant fake leather-covered fish attached to the hook of crocodile, and Marco Antonio was served!