Yup.

Fishing a small club tournament when I was still fishing out of a Jon boat and using an ice chest for a livewell. I went to put my 5th fish in the chest which was about a 2lber and I had caught one over 7 earlier as soon as I opened the lid the 7lber jumped out and I ended up with 4 fish for the day and missed 1st by less than a lb.

What loss, I don't remember any stinkin' loss.

Fished a 3 fish limit tourney trail up in the Panhandle, we had our yearly championship on Alan Henry. I had a couple really nice ones but couldn't catch another legal Largemouth. I did however catch several short spotted bass that were all under 14". Got to weigh in and was in first place until the last guy walks up. He puts his fish on the scales and he had a couple decent ones and a short one. I mumbled to my buddy next to me "That fish is short" he tells me "That's a spot it only has to be 12 inches". I had caught and released at least a half dozen fish I could of weighed in but threw back in cuz I thought all fish had to be 14". I wound up coming in 2nd. And losing by 2 ounces. I did however win Big Bass as well which actually made me win more in total money than the first place winner but I missed out on being named Tournament of Champions winner.

This did not happen to us but my brother was in line with an angler we know after his bag was recorded he had a confused look on his face , at the boat he told us he had left his heaviest fish in the live well , he was fishing solo , his partner was not able to make this tournament .

I have a good one.

Me and my God-son Dustin fished a JC Outdoors event at Fork a few years ago in Feb. We get to our spot and the fish are jumping all over a Rattletrap. We are catching them one after another! I knew we could legally possess 5 fish per person, according to the State so I tell Dustin just keep throwing them in the livewell. I am keeping mental note (I thought) of how many we had in the box.

When we hit Ten, I tell Dustin to keep fishing while I go back and start culling with the balance beam. I get down to what I thought was the best Five and go back to fishing. It is still early but we have a great sack of Unders in the box.

As the day goes on we manage to cull a couple of times and by the time weigh in rolls around we have the best bag of Unders I have ever seen for Fork.

We go to weigh in and check in with the TD so they know we are there. I grab a bag and start pulling fish out of my Bullet Boat. Bullets have black livewells because apparently nobody that works at Bullet fishes tournaments!

We are tied to the dock at Minnow Bucket and boats are coming in one by one to check in prior to weigh in. I get to the Fifth fish and look in the box. There is still one swimming around in there. I say, No problem. I grab my balance beam and cull through them again. They are like fat little 15.5" clones.

We go to weigh in and weigh 11.97 pounds for Five Unders. Mark announces that this is a record for five Unders in a JC Outdoors event. We are pumped! Nobody has an Over so we are declared winners. Dustin goes to take the polygraph which he aces no problem. Everyone is standing around waiting for their checks and Mark comes up to me with a forlorn look on his face. He say, "Someone protested you guys and said y'all were culling fish at the dock just before weigh in."

I tell him yes we did and that earlier in the day we apparently had 11 fish in the box and that we didn't know until we got to the dock.

Mark says that Rule # 3 says that no team may have more than Five fish in the box at any time. He asks if we would be willing to withdraw our catch so he did't have to DQ us for a rule infraction. I tell him yes.

So we go from Heros to Zeros just like that!! Oh Well...

To my knowledge the only time there has ever been a heavier bag of Unders than ours was the Bass Champs event when a team had 12.50 and we had to take a ZERO!!!!

1993 All-American was leading after first day...second day fishing was really tough and I had three small fish with just few minutes to go...hooked a 2 1/2-3lb bass on spinnerbait and when I swung it in the boat the 20lb line snapped and I lost the fish....finished 2nd...lost by 2lbs and it cost me $80,000.....(and I never used silver thread line again)...
2001 All American....my first days catch was disqualified because I had 6 fish in livewell..bad enough to miscount your fish but I had a good catch and probably enough to get in the top 5.....

Told a buddy where the schools was.

Did not have scale inv the boat, my partner and I miss judged weight and spent most of the day shaking off fish we didn't need so people would not see where we were catching them. I cleaned out my boat, we had a long lunch, took turns napping on deck of boat, etc . With 30 minutes to go we let a mod on this forum and his guide fish the spot. They caught 2 big fish culled twice and beat us. I blame my partner entirely .lol

[quote =whatsaweighin]Did not have scale inv the boat, my partner and I miss judged weight and spent most of the day shaking off fish we didn't need so people would not see where we were catching them. I cleaned out my boat, we had a long lunch, took turns napping on deck of boat, etc . With 30 minutes to go we let a mod on this forum and his guide fish the spot. They caught 2 big fish culled twice and beat us. I blame my partner entirely .lol [/quote]
I remember this

I remember this [/quote]

It's infamous at this point.

I was fishing a tournament on Hubbard Creek back in 78. First place was a Chevrolet 1/2 ton PU and it was a 2 day total weight, 5 fish a day. The first day I fished the East side of the lake and caught 1 2lb. bass. The guy I was fishing with asked if I was going to drive around to the bridge to weigh the fish in? Well I didn't. Sunday I went to Green House Slough and fished the creek all the way back to the old bridge. I came out with 5 5lb. bass for a total weight of 27lbs 2oz.
The guy that won the truck had 27lb 4oz. and I finished 2nd because I didn't weigh in my 2lb'r the first day. I still beat myself up over that.

Johnny

Tripped getting out of the boat while carrying bag. 20+ lb sack. Needless to say the sack went in the lake with all of the fish, I am sure I could hear them laughing as they swam away.

Seen this happen more than once.

Was loading fish from the live-well into a weigh-in bag and lost my grip on a wild 4-pounder. The dude flopped right out of the back of the boat and there wasn't a damned thing I could do but laugh it off.