At the moment, I've been doing the fishing contest for literally hours and am yet to even get third. All I'm suggesting is putting something in place so that people that spend hours trying but never actually get 3rd, 2nd or 1st haven't completely wasted their time. This could be anything from being able to keep one, and just one, pokemon that you get from that contest or a small amount of coins or cash.
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Ya that is not a good idea. There are some pretty rare pokemon in the game and it would ruin creeds economy. 0/10

am where is the fishing contest

There's only 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places for a reason, if you don't get those places, then your luck is bad.