Posted on 06/23/2017 9:15:45 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
...It was the fish of a lifetimea 76.5-pound white marlin that won him the worlds largest annual billfish tournament, the White Marlin Open, and $2,818,662 in prize money...
He swears it happened just like that.
Fishing is full of tall tales about the one that got away, and polygraph tests... are now used in high-stakes fishing tournaments. Mr. Heasley, like many winners, was required to take the test.
Texas and Alabama, have passed laws to combat fish-tournament fraud.
A few weeks later, Mr. Heasley, along with two crew mates, one of whom said he was hung over after drinking 15 beers the night before, according to court documents, took another polygraph test. All three failed
When asked why he was nervous during the test, he said, I dont know, man. Im just a fisherman.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Consult with the producers of Deadliest Catch.
So what the heck did they lie about? Not signing up to Wall street journal.
The proscribed start time, and the time they started fishing.
THe early fisherman,catches the fish.
He also got caught.
The guy who came in second protested because the fish just didn't look quite big enough to weigh that much, so they cut the fish open and found the sinkers.
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Are there some zeros missing, or a decimal misplaced?
Maybe a 765-pound Marlin would be a record... but seems to me they've been landed bigger.
Some bass tournaments might have as many as 400 boats.
What did they do, buy it from Amazon?
With a $2.8 million first prize? Even at $1,000 per boat for a GoPro and tamper proof case with extended battery and memory, that's $400,000 to protect a $2.8 million first prize. And the cameras are reusable on the next tournament.
That would take a heck of a drone to fly it out to them ...
It’s fishing. They should pay bonuses for lying!
It was the tournament prize money that was the record.
White marlin are much smaller than blue or black marlin.
Ha, ha. Thanks DG
76.5 pounds of Marlin is a throwback size, isn’t it?
76.5-pound white marlin...Operative word: WHITE Marlin. I throw them all back. Blues, sometimes Blacks (if I ever could get them in)never.
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