well if law enforcement decided to drop all charges (like in this case) I guess there would be no punishment. The robber still could walk into any bank and hypothetically rob another one. That's the issue and the only reason this thread is 9 pages long so far, because these kids are not being prosecuted. No doubt they cheated and they are wrong and they confessed, but nothing is necessarily happening to them except life time bans. All I am proposing is find a way to hold them to an agreement/contract/probationary timeframe to work their way out of the hole they created for themselves. All the meanwhile clubs could talk and have fair warning, with stipulations agreed upon in a contract, if they tried to go fish other tournaments elsewhere.

Nobody cares if they fish again. Why you so worried, better to catch them early on. They can find a new hobby.

I havent fished a tournament in years but when I did most tournaments had a rule that if you had ever been DQ'ed from ANY tournament for any reason then you could not fish their tournaments either. Thats why alot of tournament directors would allow participants to withdraw from a tournament for a minor rule infraction rather than slap them with a DQ that would affect them for the rest of their fishing lives.

Right now that DQ may sound like they got off easy to them, but these kids will have trouble finding a place to compete for the rest of their lives.

As a captain for my son I find this very irritating. We just finished the third year of fishing THSBA in which we have only placed once in the top 20 over the three years we have done this. I have suspected there was cheating going on and figured this scenario was possible. This undermines the trust of tournament fishing to the point of me thinking that it needs to get back to what fishing was to start with, family and friends getting together for an afternoon at the lake.

Who confirmed that they are minors? Could be an 18 year old senior in HS.

[quote=flashman252] I don’t care if they fish again. Why you so worried, better to catch them early on. They can find a new hobby.

To the sensitives that don’t want to see their pictures, don’t get on Facebook, they are plastered all over it and deservingly so.

To the sensitives that don’t want to see their pictures, don’t get on Facebook, they are plastered all over it and deservingly so.

Not about being sensitive, it’s about TFF being judge, jury, and executioner. I don’t really know the whole story but I’ve seen everything from rich parents paying off people to bank robbers. It’s silly season with so many of these ridiculous posts. I never realized how perfect the older generations are…and I’m a boomer.