This is not hard. DON'T SOLICIT INFORMATION THAT MIGHT HELP YOU ON TOURNAMENT DAY WITHIN THE TIMELINE SET!

If you're defending Martin, two very simple questions need to be answered.

1. If he wasn't looking to gain a competitive advantage why would he call a local he admits he didn't know that well?

2. If he's innocent, why not go through BASS' process? You can't just say you don't trust their polygraph, it's given to like 10-15 anglers EVERY tournament, and other than Matt Herren, EVERYONE else has been fine.

It's possible other anglers have it out for him, that's not uncommon when people are known cheaters. After the Astro's garbage can debacle they were targeted by other players as well, people bashed them (no pun intended), I think they led the league in being hit by pitches, boooed everywhere they went, and generally regarded as scum within the game. And they earned that.....no different here.

Here's a novel idea, if you think people are out to get you, don't "bend" the rules or think you're living in the grey area. He's a cheater, period, end of story. This isn't about Seth Feider, Matt Robertson, Gerald Swindle, Greg Hackney, Canadians you may not like, BASS, or anyone else.

It's about Scott Martin getting caught cheating not once, but possibly twice inside of a month. The fact that he quit based on an investigation should tell you all you need to know.

This is not hard. DON'T SOLICIT INFORMATION THAT MIGHT HELP YOU ON TOURNAMENT DAY WITHIN THE TIMELINE SET!

If you're defending Martin, two very simple questions need to be answered.

1. If he wasn't looking to gain a competitive advantage why would he call a local he admits he didn't know that well?

2. If he's innocent, why not go through BASS' process? You can't just say you don't trust their polygraph, it's given to like 10-15 anglers EVERY tournament, and other than Matt Herren, EVERYONE else has been fine.

It's possible other anglers have it out for him, that's not uncommon when people are known cheaters. After the Astro's garbage can debacle they were targeted by other players as well, people bashed them (no pun intended), I think they led the league in being hit by pitches, boooed everywhere they went, and generally regarded as scum within the game. And they earned that.....no different here.

Here's a novel idea, if you think people are out to get you, don't "bend" the rules or think you're living in the grey area. He's a cheater, period, end of story. This isn't about Seth Feider, Matt Robertson, Gerald Swindle, Greg Hackney, Canadians you may not like, BASS, or anyone else.

It's about Scott Martin getting caught cheating not once, but possibly twice inside of a month. The fact that he quit based on an investigation should tell you all you need to know.

I don't think it is a fact he quit based on an investigation
He paid for and provided BASS with a poly from a 3rd party.
BASS chose not to accept this.
Fact BASS is protecting 2 anglers here, and dragging then name of one of the families that created BASS through the mud.
Whatever you think about Martin doesn't really matter. BASS has done this to themselves and there are plenty of BASS apologist in this thread
BASS seems to be good at driving there top athletes and names away

You're entitled to your opinion, but you're just wrong here.

Fact:
- There was a pending investigation, he quit before it was completed.

Fact:
- When you sign up to fish BASS you sign off on their rules, which includes using their poly, not a 3rd party's

Fact:
- BASS shouldn't accept it, all anglers need to play by the same rules

Fact:
- Roland Martin didn't create BASS, and BASS isn't "protecting" two anglers. I personally don't agree with it, but it's their policy to have protestors remain anonymous. Nobody that's filed a protest has ever had their name published by BASS unless admitting to it.
- If BASS wanted to drag the Martin family name through the mud, they wouldn't have said he "self-reported" in the first incident. Wrote an article on their website about "Mad respect for Scott Martin" after it happened, and had him on BASS Live a few days after his DQ.

Fact:
- If by "done this to themselves" you mean holding cheaters accountable for cheating. I'm all for it. If you don't think that's right I'm not sure what to tell you.

Another BASS nuthugger

I don’t get all the hate for BASS here. They received a protest and investigated.

Had another angler been protested and bass chose
Not to investigate, we’d see the same people calling out BASS.

BASS didn’t dq or suspend Martin, Martin CHOSE to walk away.


Sorry but the no info rule is easy to abide by and the ANGLERS want it to be strictly enforced, so doesn’t matter much what we think. It’s only difficult for guys that insist on operating in the grey area. If you are one of
The best in the world, just show up and fish.

A whole lot of people on here running with a whole lot of assumptions. To my knowledge BASS hasn't spoken and the only info that has come out has come from Scott himself. All of your posts are based on previous feelings toward Scott or Bass.

On procedure alone:
If I was asked to take a poly to prove my innocence simply because someone else made an allegation based on secondhand knowledge, then I would likely refuse myself. Guilty until proven innocent is not something I play with. So far, no one has come forward with any hard evidence that he did anything wrong. In this precedent, one could make allegations randomly against tournament favorites in hopes they fail a poly on something random.

We also have Scott’s statement where he said he reached out to someone to gain a competitive advantage. So there is that.

... Another BASS nuthugger

It astonishes me how many people can defend someone who admits (in his video) to breaking the "INFO" rule and then plays the "VICTIM." Trust me I have fished around Scott for years in the FLW days. Been around him on and off the water. Not the guy that u see in his videos! People forget he DID NOT get an invite to the BPT when the split happened bc all those guys know who he is. BASS took him bc they needed names and thought he might stay in line! Well a tiger can't change his stripes and now BASS has to pay for it with how they handled Okeechobee and with Scott being Scott! Video's and text messages and refusal to take a poly? How much proof does it take for some of ya'll to just say "yeap he broke the rules".
Karma has been slow to catch with him but it finally has!