So the fish was DQ’d and he already paid a fine? And then months later here we are? There’s some shenanigans going on!

I'd like to know now that he has paid a ticket for no license in Texas, is he still allowed to purchase a license in all the other states on the Elite tour next year? We saw what happened to Josh Stracner.

Here would be a good question, in all the tournaments in Texas, all the big bass splashes, etc. I'm sure someone has been ticketed for an expired license. Has any of these people been charged with felony tournament fraud simply because their license was expired in the event? Any of them.

The guy in the NPFL that won in Texas without a license was just DQ’d. Nobody arrested him for anything And that was an actual tournament. Share a Lunker is not a tournament and Milliken’s fish had already been removed.

Are you 75 or do you just want people to think you are 75......

I don’t think so. They are singling him out. The prosecution will have to prove he knew he didn’t have a license and entered the Program anyway. Unless he admitted that when he was ticketed, or told someone that later, I don’t see how they can prove it.

None that I remember. The questions need to be moved up the line at TPWD.

The next question would be is this some DA in Nac with nothing to do who pushed it or the Game Warden. I seem to recall the game warden up here refusing to charge the kid from the high school fishing team with anything even though they had pics of him getting fish out of a basket in the working man on eagle mountain. Is the game warden the one pushing this?

I would think it is TPWD since they are the only ones who can legally enforce game and fish laws. It may not be the local warden but someone higher up that is pushing this.

Wonder if this is revenge for when he took slot fish home to his private pond from Fayette, which were all clearly slots. In all seriousness, moving forward, is he even allowed to fish in Texas? If not, that’s gonna hurt in more ways than one????

You would think TPW would check for license when they picked up the fish… unless they want it so bad they intentially don’t check until the fish is in Athens

I caught a SAL in lake Waco years ago. That was part of the discussion at the ramp. Yes. They asked, yes I had one.

Not to be a stickler for details, the statutes say 10k to be a felony, I just went to the share a lunker page and they show the prize drawing to be 5k.....