Patoka Lake Championship Cheating Incident

[dartag]

I had written a report for our NBAA championship adventure but was able to sum it up by saying fishing was tough.  We caught 12 keeper fish in 5 days of fishing.  Less than half the field weighed a fish each day.  I waited a week to post this thinking someone else might have said something. Congrats to the teams that figured out the fish.

Now the incident.

At the completion of the 1st day weigh in Jim called everyone close to the stage and held up about a 5 pound bass with some line tied to its mouth.  The fish was dead.  It was brought in by a team that had marked it the day before on a bed.  When they returned the next day the fish was gone.  In the same area they noticed a bobber tied to a stump.  The bobber was marking the location of where the fish was tied up.  I commend Jim and NBAA for bringing this out in the open.  It is sad to think of all the money people spent to go fish an event like this and know you are fishing against cheaters.

[t-bone]

That's just sad. I wish people had more integrity than to do something like that. It would have been nice if they would have camped out and waited for the cheaters to show up at the stump.

[peters_skeeter]

I am so sick of hearing stories like this. I was there for the championship week. Did not catch one keeper all week. After my tournament in the blue division, I packed up my crap and drove straight home 7 hours.
Thanks for posting this, P***ed me off all over again.

[dartag]

" Thanks for posting this, P***ed me off all over again "

Sorry I P.Od ya.   Didn't mean to

With my partner and I spent for the fish we caught it really got to me that someone would do that.   Would be nice to know how many they had tied up or weighed in.

YOu hear about these things but when you see it in person it sucks.   I will say the crowd was silent while Jim talked about it.

[slsail]

Unfortynatly I think there is more cheating and bending the rules in the NBAA than you would think. 'From pre fishing the day of a tourn on the lake of teh tournamnet  to incidents as you have mentioned here.  To bad