Going to lose some sponsorships over that one! 8 pounds sounds way over the top and obvious but is nothing new at fishing tournaments. I’ve heard of it being done at squirrel hunting tournaments that are judged with total weight being the tiebreaker when two or more teams have the same bag limit.
They were the series leading team for the season as well. I’ve been around tournament fishing at one level or another for most of my life and the amount of cheating I’ve seen is unbelievable. From things like this with the weights, trimming the tail fins down to make fish fit in a slot limit size, breaking a fishes jaw to make him an 1/8” longer to meet a minimum length, pre fishing and keeping fish in a cage until tournament day. The list goes on…
My friends son-in-law would take homegrown bigmouth bass and go out the night before the match and string the fish to a log or something and during the tournament he would swing by and fish the area awhile then he would snag the line and it would look like he just caught a trophy fish. He won 3 tournaments back to back and the finally had a judge follow him around all day and he would lose. He finally gave up fishing tournaments after getting the shït stomped out of him by some pissed off rednecks.
I lost a lot of money to a team like this one when I was fishing tournaments. It took a few years to catch them using fish caught during prefishing then put in a soft cage, but they were caught.
Anyone who cheats in tournaments is the scum of the world as far as I am concerned. The guys above deserve any and all punishment they receive.
I LOVE fishing. It’s one of my true passions in life but I could never get into tournaments. I have friends that did the circuit and they were quite good but fishing for me is everything that tournaments aren’t. It’s easy to ruin the enjoyment of fishing by throwing money, ego and insecurities into the mix. I used to watch a little bit of the tournaments occasionally and every time I was disappointed. Too much ego coupled with tremendous insecurities seemed to dominate the field. They looked like nascar clowns masquerading as a human billboard….Ricky Bobby had more class and intelligence than some of those guys. 😂
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Same here. To each their own so long as they play by the rules but fishing to me is about relaxing more than competition. Tournaments automatically ratchet up the competitive fire and make it less enjoyable to me.
Some people would cheat to win a dirty diaper, just to be able to say they won.
I HATE tournaments. Buncha self-important entitlement minded douche-bags. Pre-fishing is usually worse than tournament day as it applies to someone moving in and playing bumper boats. Tournament day they've gotta behave or they'll get punted if they get complaints to the tourney director by non-tourney anglers. The biggest worry on actual tourney days is being anywhere near the starting or ending boat drag-race.
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This is more than scumball. These two clowns have won $400k over the last 2 years in walleye tourneys. They were suspected of cheating last year. The chickens came home to roost last night.
I LOVE fishing. It’s one of my true passions in life but I could never get into tournaments. I have friends that did the circuit and they were quite good but fishing for me is everything that tournaments aren’t. It’s easy to ruin the enjoyment of fishing by throwing money, ego and insecurities into the mix. I used to watch a little bit of the tournaments occasionally and every time I was disappointed. Too much ego coupled with tremendous insecurities seemed to dominate the field. They looked like nascar clowns masquerading as a human billboard….Ricky Bobby had more class and intelligence than some of those guys. 😂
If you’re not first you’re last…
Damn straight brother Ace.... same applies to big buck contest Don't believe in turning hunting and fishing into a dick measuring contest It's between one man and nature..... with likely no witness.
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Any competition will open the opportunity for cheating. People always want to turn everything into a competition instead of enjoying the activity for what it is.
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Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.