Well said Ken. It happens. We fished last 3 years in THSBA and when encountering another boat always went around. We were just having fun.

It’s all good. Some hate some us some don’t.

You all have a good day. I have to go to my paying job now..

THSBA 2018 tax forms
Doesn’t look like they are killing it with all the help to pay.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/465522960/201921969349300007/full

Ken you continuously start with the your whole "haters" rhetoric when some of us can continue to point out safety, sportsmanship and now this open blatant cheating by this captain and his kids. Using a ladder is 100% cheating and not a "rule infraction", that is a clear and obvious action to gain a noticeable advantage over the rest of the field.

Since things continue to happen year after year, your use of the "hater" excuse is no longer valid. When your organization can be called out year after year on like instances, then you are failing to run your organization. Basically it's a get your business in order situation.

It's simple, I do not and never have had to fish on the weekends, I retired at 51 and before could fish weekdays my entire adult life. I can fish whenever I want so I do not post because I am mad the lakes are crowded with your anglers on weekends. I could careless if you have 17,000 boat events.


But for the good of the tournament fishing community there seems to be some kids learning the wrong way.

Had something very similar happen to my partner and I when fishing a club tournament on Texoma. We were fishing down a stretch of bank and a high school team in Ranger, I'm assuming were prefishing for this same tourney, pulled down between 2 boat houses right in front of us, dropped the trolling motor and started fishing catching a fish not 20' in front of us. Even if they missed because of the boathouses they saw us before casting but never asked if they could go ahead or apologized for jumping in front of us. We would have said go ahead if they would have just had the common courtesy to ask. I'm know there are HS captains doing things the right way but there is a small group that just aren't teaching these kids the proper way of doing things

Hell go in Little Caney on Fork. You got grown [censored] men doing it all the time. Or any other cove but that's been the worst one I have seen

When does all the cussing and hell raising start on the video? What time stamp?

One solution could be to get 2 official "teams" in boats that are "undercover" officials on the water. They could be on the water during tournament hours and when they see a violation they politely tell the team that they are DQ'ed.

If the captains and parents figure out they can be DQ'ed on the spot they may learn the rules and learn to follow them.

Sorry, I don't see it that way. Todd was fishing down the bank . The other guy came all the way across the cove to get right in front of him.

It looked to me like Castledine had just turned that corner and the Skeeter was idling towards the same bed fish before he knew Todd's boat was heading that way. The High School team may have not known Castledine was coming before he started his boat and drove to the bedding fish. Castledine initiated the altercation by dropping his rod and staring at the high school kids like my wife does when I'm in her way. To me, it looked like the Boat Captain ignored Castledine the same way I ignore my wife when she performs that particular form of tantrum.
In a similar passive aggressive way Castledine started the confrontation by saying something like "You'll figure it out one day." Basically, calling the man a dumbarse in front of his kids. This is how cry babies do it all the time. They antagonize someone and then claim the higher ground by walking away.
This looks to me like two guys that found the same bed fish and one guy had a camera rolling so he gets to explain the situation from his point of view only. It doesn't help that some of the communication is muted. I feel like there may have been other things said.
In my opinion, it's also very poor taste to start the video with a slow-mo shot of his trophy from this event. It feels like an attempt to gain credibility before laying out his version of how this exchange went. Kind of a "look what I won despite being surrounded by these idiots" sort of mentality.
There are definitely two sides to every story and this one is no different. If the ladder is a violation it should be addressed without prejudice.

I feel like Castledine came out looking and sounding pretty bad despite his best editing attempts. This is why he should have just ducked his head and carried on without confrontation. If he wants to call himself a Professional Fisherman, he should act like it.

The same boat captain that is blatantly and openly cheating?

Doug, your correct. I apologize for calling out the haters. The THSBA does in fact take the actions seriously. In fact there are numerous DQ’s that no one ever hears about. I wish we could catch everyone of them and DQ them. The fact is we just cannot and neither can any trail out there.

Tried that as well and at State and Regionals we usually are.The problem is it is volunteers to do it. Not everyone wants to volunteer.

I do think the team was in the wrong for coming across the cove and cutting him off and as far as the ladder. We are trying every resource we have to find this guy.

I wish they would all teach the kids to do right like we all were growing up.

That’s all. Just know we are looking into this and if we do find them it will be handled.

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The same boat captain that is blatantly and openly cheating? [/quote]

We all get cut off from time to time. Happens whether on purpose or not but this guy is using a platform clearly breaking the rules and does not seem to care. The boat captain should know the rules. What a lesson to teach those kids. I don't miss fishing the highschool events.. My son and still fish just without the rat race of it all...

I’m glad I’m not the only one that saw this. With all the build up and fake drama/indignation at the beginning of that video I definitely didn’t expect Castledine to be the first one to have something smart to say.