[devane617]

I would hate to be this guy when he tells his fellow roomies in the local lock-up why he was put behind bars...

[devane617]

***SORRY SOMETHING HAPPENED TO MY POST*****USER ERROR!
A Garland man pleaded guilty to a felony theft charge after admitting he stuffed a lead weight into a bass during a fishing tournament.

Robby Rose, 45, must serve 15 days in jail and surrender his fishing license, said Mike Cox, spokesman for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

The theft charge was prompted by the grand prize in October’s Bud Light Trail Boss Big Bass Tournament on Lake Ray Hubbard: a $55,000 bass boat.

[Kartographer]

I don’t know, something seems ‘fishy’ about this whole story. ;-)

[Scythian]

Sunday morning fishing shows have been ruined with these contests, who cares, trying to catch the most and stuff, it’s like a beer guzzling contest. I miss the old shows where they’d be flying fishing in wyoming or just Bill Dance fishing and goofing off on some lake, now it’s contests, contests are not what fishing is about, they ruined the whole thing for me ...

[throwback]

Is nothing sacred? Fixing fish? I’m afraid I agree with other fellow here; never cared for the competitions anyway. The fun of fishing is the strike. I’m a lousy fishermen, but even the small ones were fun.

[hosepipe]

So NOW all the BASS must be checked with a metal detector?...

[ontap]

Never understood the economics of buying a $100,000 dollars worth of equipment to fish. Having said that this happens all the time in tournaments. Sometimes they sneak out and stake fish out before the tournament.Lot of people enter very few win.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I guess he got some of those bass turds on himself this time.

[Damifino]

I worked with a guy that grew those champion size pumpkins. He was DQ’d in a competition for injecting them with water to increase their weight. One of the guys in the shop left a pumpkin on the break-room table with a pressure gauge sticking out of the top and a faucet out of the side. It was hilarious.

[FlyFisher]

Boat? Who needs a boat? I thought fishin’ was about standing in the middle of creek or river.

I agree with all the non-competition guys here. Fishing is about getting out in nature and enjoying yourself. Heck, if was about collecting fish, dynamite and net work better anyhow.

[vetvetdoug]

There is many checks and balances at these Bass Pro tournaments. I remember some contestants catching fish in a pond and sneaking them alive to the tournament to increase their take. Now this has been closed up by judges and oversight referees at the tournaments. I know that many of the champion Bass are radiographed for heavy metals because of the weight that can be falsely elevated with lead. This cheater will never fish in a tournament again.

I recommend that Freepers within a five hour drive of Cotter, Arkansas, go fishing for trout on the White River at the Cotter trout dock...absolutely a great fun time.

[djf]

Guy deserves a good kick in the bASS!!

[1066AD]

Tournament cheating isn’t new of course. I remember a few years ago reading where one guy brought in fish that were still frozen, others where the fish had obviously been dead a while, having been placed underwater before the contest and so on.