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!!!!

I was wondering when you were going to chime in, 6Fish.

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

I was wondering when you were going to chime in, 6Fish.

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.

did the same thing on Table Rock last year.....finished 4th....lost a 4 lb bass same exact way on day one weigh in. I was 3 pounds away from winning on the last day. I didn't "lose" the tourney, per say, but I didn't win a $27,000 serial number 0001 Z18 either. Haha. Sometimes life throws ya a curve.