You loose your “Good Guy Sainthood Status” when you come clean and apologize……AFTER you get busted!

I agree with sprigsss..................................personally, I will not be supporting Sprague sponsors such as Lew, Strike King, etc any longer. I'm sure that won't matter to them-

Are you guys kidding? I hope so. That seems like a pretty extreme reaction. I'm not throwing all my TVs in the trash because they are from China. Sprague is a bunny rabbit compared to China.

I can't either, somehow we were talking about memphis and my vacation and I all of a sudden turned to a racist.

My ban is quite funny.... it states Reason: "Not even worth stating"

Started a new name the next day, made it known how I felt, had outpouring of messages of support and multiple people asked me to just reach out to Al and tell him it was all a miscommunication, I put one more message up, and got that one banned in less than 24 hours. Forums are for opinion and healthy arguments. NOT on that forum, if you don't agree, they just ban you.

Makes me wonder how much more of this is going on and just haven't been caught. Makes me wonder if that is why there is a select 20 usually always towards the top? Also, you thought it was hard enough to become a professional angler.... it just got harder, better start teaching kids to cheat at a young age if they want to chase their dreams......

Maybe baskets was all part of the game plan, getting caught never is.

I feel sorry for Tharp and Crochet. They'll be on the "cheaters" team.

Are they fishing with Wheeler or Connell.

I’ll never shop at Academy again and I have never bought a googan bait, and never will for sure.

Intentionally breaking a rule to win is cheating. In this case they are winning money. IMO it is a crime and should be treated no differently putting fish in a laundry basket.

Would love to hear his explanation, don’t see how the tour could let him continue to fish with them, or how other anglers are willing to do so.

I watched him throw a tantrum on an old mlf rerun the other day. Kinda turned me sour towards him and I didn’t even know about his cheating history

This is comical to me… y’all ready to boycott sponsors for an angler breaking a rule set by the trail… not a law, a trail rule. Remember this next time you hear about pros struggling to find sponsors from within the industry. Get as mad as you want and hate the angler as much as you want, but how dumb to target the few companies willing to spend their money sponsoring fishermen.

This^^^

For those that don’t understand sarcasm,

Wheeler and Connell were caught seeking lake information too, and they were fined a few bucks. No DQ no adjustments in standings. The new American standard rules that only apply to some.

They are “stars” supposedly, well one is, the other is far from it. I’ll continue to shop at Academy but have never and will never buy a bait from Googan.

To be fair, its been that way with MLF since inception. Theyve always been about the final product, the rest is just behind the scenes of the tv show.

Agree. To do this, MLF needs professional anglers that are willing to give up their integrity.

Sounds like typical "selective" politics... it's not what you know, it's who you bl$W. It's very interesting that the same rule only applies when the ruling few decide to enforce them. Im sure ol Sprague doesnt give two shats what anyone here thinks as he's depositing those checks. Just from stats I have looked at, he's making quite a bit of bank! More than most doctors I know in the ER Realm. The tantrum comment is moot, as I know everyone has a "moment". It's a lot less for me as I age, but I will still stomp the h$ll out of that trolling motor pedal when it messes up! Not making any excuses for the guy, but at least keep the enforcement level with everyone. Those kind of actions dilute the integrity of the business as a whole. I still enjoy watching any of the pro tours that are online, as I mirror to my TV when I'm bored on the couch. That hasn't been very often the last couple years due to the political flu inundating the ER with swabs every time a person coughs.