I agree. I was not trying to detract from the angler's win at all. I don't know them from Adam and I am sure they are probably good guys and deserving winners.

why wait until you can get home in your house an computer if you paid your money an fished the tournament an thought you were wronged why not ask the question at the time or do a protest second guessing after the fact is a waste of time.

It's legal. It's within the posted/published rules of the tournament. Quit complaining, because I bet you would have no problem with the rule if you and your partner would have caught 2 overs.

So if you're fishing lake fork for leisure and catch an over, you take a picture and go home?

exactly!!!

There's no doubt that the best way to run a 5-fish tournament on Fork is to allow as many overs as possible to be weighed. On a lake with such restrictive size limits, why would you want to minimize the chance for the biggest bags possible??

What does "weigh at a different spot" mean?

ugh

Ive fished the lake a long time, and been fishing tournaments out there since the early 90's. Ive only seen 2-overs weighed for 1 team only a hand full of times. Maybe 5 times tops. Its not easy to do! Once those bass are in weighed in, they are not in possession of that angler. So, legally that angler can go back out and catch another if they wanted too. Its pretty simple.
I think one thing that is getting looked over here is the potential that lake still has. Im pretty sure Burn's had some other big slots they caught as well. Prolly close to a 40 lbs. bag. And no telling some of the other weights. I know we had 5 slots that would've pushed over 20. So it really comes down to just reading the rules of the tournament and understanding them.
But that's the reason I fish that lake all the time. Even if we have a crappy day tournament weight wise, we still had an awesome day of fishing! And Ill take that any day of the week. We seem to forget about the fun in this sometimes.

If they weighed and released them only to come back and weigh another over, why are they both pictured standing side by side both holding an over?

I still don't get this post. Both anglers caught an over. Both anglers retained those overs and had their photos taken with them. What they could have done (go back out and catch more overs) doesn't appear to have happened, so why all the discussion? They won fair and square.

I guess if they weight both fish in and did not get disqualified they didn't do anything wrong by the rules. The rules would have covered Texas game and fish laws so they didn't do anything illegally or unethical. I really don't get this post.

I will just say a GREAT BIG CONGRATS to the two winners on a great job. Their won't be many that will ever do this on a length limit lake. This is just a great day of fishing and their will always be nay sayers.

I don't fish Fork and no dog in this fight, but do have a question about the rules on this particular tournament and lake. I understand they both caught an over and well within the rules. My question is: can partner "A "catch an over, team goes and weighs it in early in morning. Then Partner "A" catches another over, can he continue to weigh-in overs all day as long as he takes only one in his livewell to weigh in scales before he catches another? Thanks Coach

I don't see anybody here trying to take anything away from the winners. Those guys did what most cant do in a lifetime. I think the point is whether or not there is a double standard for tournament fisherman compared to those who don't fish tournaments.
I personally don't get why anybody wants to fish tournaments and am always concerned about the effect they have on the resource. I don't even know what the regulations are on most lakes because I can catch as many as I get on the hook and know they're going right back in the lake.
I do learn a lot about the whole thing in these discussions though. It's good to know that there are fees paid to the TP&W that hopefully gets put to good use and the opportunity is used for some research. Some of what I get though is that there is also bad behavior involved, the need for a watchful eye and some people that get very thin skinned about the whole subject.
Who knows. After a couple hundred more discussions like this I could even become more tolerant.

Yes. That was the rule for Basschamps.

That was quick. Thanks Buda