Me too, everyone hates it when the honest angler "donater" stays home

Yeah me too....I donate money to the top anglers and do a lot of practice casting!!!

Guess you know more bad folks in fishing than I do. I bet the number is less than 1% myself.

Agree

IMO I think it happens all of the time....if there is money = they will figure out how to cheat you out of it. Desperate folks do desperate things

Back in the early 80s there was a real cheating ring around when they had the Texas Roadrunner tournaments. There were guys bringing bass from Fla. and a few here were buying them. The ring got broken up and one of the ringleaders was found by a pond in Grand Prairie shot dead.

Pretty funny. I have a weird quirk (several actually) about researching writers and columnists before or after I read their stuff. It helps me decide how much stock I put into the persons opinion.

I disagree with your TD comments. I saw a gentleman bring a 12 pounder to the scales at Falcon a couple of years ago. The fish was protested and the angler who submitted the fish was disqualified and was subsequently banned from competing on the tour. The TD from the next largest circuit in the area also banned him because of the aforementioned incident. Bottom line there are some folks who will cheat when money is on the line (just like steroids in sports). That said, there are a lot of pretty decent anglers that just aren't at the level of competition to compete with great fisherman who spend a lot more time on the water than they do. At one time i fish all weekend every weekend, read constantly, studied lakes constantly and produced like someone who put that much time and effort into the sport. Since then my time on the water has gone down drastically (once maybe twice a month) and I have been very inconsistent, finishing in the Top 20 in in 3 of the last 13 Bass Champs tournaments I have competed in.

It actually is a well researched and accurate article that paints both the pretty and ugly sides of the history of bass tournament fishing. Having been present at several of the referenced happenings I can attest to some history of the story.

50%, are you serious or are you trying to be cute?

Doug I was thinking of several words when I read that but CUTE was not one of them .

I fished one of the tourneys that they cheated in,the kykx big bass classic. Prizes were worth 105k that year. They then went to the kyks tourney and won that one. They finally got caught if I remember at another big payout down south. There was another time that a cheater was caught at the kykx tourney with weights stuffed in the fish. I guess stay away from the Kykx tournament!!!

I have a question since we are on the subject: do you think it is cheating if a tournament angler gets someone like let's say a guide's sd card and downloads some spots to their unit and wins with these spots?? Not trying to start any flaming but was curious what y'all thought???

I believe you are referring to potlicking.

Dude. That's been happening since the dawn of the smartphone. Hell. I have apps that will show me peoples favorite spots. It is a voluntarily updated app, but I have tried some of the locations marked on maps and they do seem to be pretty legit.

There really isn't much of a way to prevent cheaters from finding ways to make themselves into something they aren't capable of being on their own merit. It's just what it is. Sad. But true.

Of course, with cheaters and the things they skeem up, comes new ways to prevent them from gettin away with cheating. Lol. So, it's an ever evolving game of cat and mouse. One thing is sure, on the bigger tourneys the spectators crowding out us fishermen will keep everyone honest. They drift in close enough to see out lures and ask questions. Lol.