Angler-Disqualified-for-Tweeting-During-Fishing-Tournament

[dartag]

sure glad I don't know how to Tweet.   Bummer it happened when you read the story.



http://blog.wired2fish.com/blog/bid/42928/Angler-Disqualified-for-Tweeting-During-Fishing-Tournament

[djkimmel]

Yes. He is a member of GreatLakesBass.com too. Modern technology and behavior doesn't always mesh with all the tournament fishing rules.

[McCarter]

wow, that sucks!

McCarter himself

[Frank]

The rule says you can't use any electronic device to gain imformation while fishing. What about fishfinders or gps maps. And if gps maps are allowed wouldn't the same exact map on my phone be allowed?  It sounds like I too am breaking rules.  I don't have a nav unit on my boat but I have it on my phone with waypoints and chartplotting.   I have never felt like I was cheating.  One time fishing on a new lake, in the same channel talking to the tourney director,  I got on my phone map to tell him where the channel went because neither of us knew.  I guess I need to go spend a grand to get the same info I have now.

Frank

[djkimmel]

It always been enforced when I've known about it occurring when it was used to communicate with someone in some way. You can check weather and I would hope (and assume) that similar online applications would be okay, but if you fish tournaments you have to read the rules and understand what the particular organization thinks they mean. Some actually say you can only use radios and phones to get weather and nothing else, outside of an emergency. Some even say you can't use them period.