https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/sports/bass-fishing-cheating.html

A slap on the wrist...


Kinda like when you drop a crane in the middle of Seattle and kill 4 people, the total fines were less than $100K, no jail time. Or steal a couple million through embezzlement and serve 16 months in prison. While other non-crimes are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That is why this sheeit continues rampantly, the punishments don't deter the crimes of the ones' worth punishing, and the crimes not worth punishing are prosecuted as if they were Treason. These are only examples of how this country is sliding down the turd washer.

I wonder if third-degree felonies are actually treated like felonies...I guess they will find out.

La and Tx use to have some really big bass tournaments, but cheating helped close them down. There were/are 2 brothers from Serepta, La. that were fined and I think one did time in the pen for cheating at several bass tournaments. The officials found a pond on their property with Florida bass in them and they were caught weighing in the Florida bass in tournaments.

There was one 'big bass' tournament on the Lake of the Pines back in the '80's, that for a few years, paid $105,000 for first place + all kinds of perks.

Cheating at fishing tournaments is nothing new.

It's been happening more often here in LA. https://www.theadvocate.com/acadian...97f5554-ec99-11ea-99d0-cff99b47d570.html

Bass fishing sucks

The same bunch of asswipes tried to do the same thing with competition deer hunting.. BuckMasters.
[bleep] them

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We had people cheat during catfish tournaments.... pretty bad stuff when the purse is in the thousands of dollars.
All of the guys make extra trips to get to know a lake or river so they are contenders, then someone cheats and blows how fair things are... sucks.

They now have to pay a lie detector test guy to test the winners... WTH !!

Back in the 70s a pretty famous TV fishing show host, I believe his name was John Fox, got caught tying up and hiding large bass before the tournament. Then retrieving them and taking them to the weigh in.

There is a local fellow where I live that got caught cheating on a tournament on Lake Fork. I don't know what he did, but I do know the Judge banned him from fishing tournaments for 10 years.

I read about this a minute ago and laughed my ass off.

Had a fellow tried to get heaviest fish years ago by putting fishing weights inside the fish.

He was found out because the fish wasn't very long for the weight and a male bass.

These folks are just crazy stupid.

I know a guy who did time in prison for cheating in bass tournaments years ago. He was tying up pre-caught fish beforehand.

There was a controversy over a tournament winner or record class bass I forget which back in the late '80s in Texas. the fellow that caught a large bass that an x-ray showed a weight in it. A lot of people wanted to string him up even though it was shown that bass had ate the weight because of the growth around it. I guess the bass couldn't pass the lead weights. He also passed a lie detector.

Yep, and John Fox was a great fisherman. Put weights in a fish iirc. Had his own local tv show named after him. Hes the one who made the statement that "theres a bass under every bush" that became locally famous. He may have also been the one who coined another saying, "Rayburn is the bass factory".

John was a bud of my young cousins wife's brother, and my cousin fished with them on several occasions.

It was a bass factory untill the advent of BASS and its developing power which finally resulted in the demise of commercial netting of rough fish which was sold to Mexico. I knew such a fisherman on Rayburn who often took 2000 pounds of carp and buffalo a day out of Rayburn. 2000 x $0.19/lb iirc.

Bass freaks were worried the netters might take a big bass home to eat on occasion. Actually, good netters caught very few and wouldnt be caught dead with a bass or catfish and lose their livelyhood.
The loss of the netters was the end of the lake being a Bass Factory. The fish freaks didnt know the netters killed thousands of alligator gar a year, which eat big bass like kids eat 'tator chips".

Back then you could find an area where there were a lot of bass and catch them in the same place for a week or three before they moved on. Now, you hunt for an area with a few bass and they are gone in a day or two, constantly persued by schools of huge gator gar.

The sight of several acres of surface water churning with huge schools of 4-7 lb bass are gone forever.

This. I never joined though he called me several times and had a great speil. I hated their terminology. There are no buck masters, well except maybe for me and GeoW and Drummond and Sandbilly and JGraider.

Huh who woulda thunk.

Hahaha.

Same thing (Cheating) happens in coyote calling contests. I’m not a fan of making hunting and fishing “competition” events.

Popular contests here are rock chuck derbies. Usually the heaviest chuck wins and prizes are stuff like rifles. One year one of the local contests raised $300k for charity. I haven't heard of any cheating but maybe they just haven't been caught yet.

Sam Rayburn still fishes just fine.

lol, when i was fishing SKA trounaments with a Dr friend he would hook up an IV to the kingfish to try and keep it from dehydrating before the weigh in.

gar eat mainly rough fish, carp, buffalo etc., thats why they are the best bait to catch them on.