Robbie,
Sue was out yesterday afternoon. Have you received a reply from her yet?

I know that JC Outdoors westside trail is coming to P.K this year also! You need to come join us

Robbie, I talked to Sue this morning by phone.

The tourney is out of Bass Hollow and it is $100/team and I think you can fish solo also.

Tidwell77,
Thanks for the invite. Where are you going to be headquartered?

dad had come down to go fishing with me an that weekend there was a open tournament
so we signed up and took off well about 2 hours into the tourney
we were easing around this cove and there was this guy laying on his belly on the front of his boat
pulling up a rope and then up came this cage.
we just eased back into the reeds an watched.
he pulled out 4 big bass and put them in his livewell.

it really aggravated my dad so much he said take me back to the dock so off we go.

then we told the guy we were loading up and going back to the house. he asked why ?
we told him we seen a guy pulling up a rope with a cage and loading up some big bass into his livewell and we wernt going to compete against cheaters.

we never told what kind of boat or who it was
later that week we found out they had cancelled the tournament
and all fish were released on the spot.

Really sorry to hear about something like happening on any lake, especially on PK. How long ago did that happened+ Did they not have a polygraph?

Wish I could make it...have family coming to town on the 13th. Its going to take a fat sack to win this. Been catching some quality fish out there this past month.

Robbie,
Sorry you can't make it this time. We are planning to have a couple more tournaments in the spring. Maybe you can make them.
You may be right about the fat sack. Maybe 25-28 lbs. It all depends about the weather.

not sure if they had a polygraph
we just reported in and let them know what we saw and loaded the boat
while we were loading the boat they kept asking us who it was
we told them it didnt matter we were not going to fish with a cheater.
got in the pickup and pulled out the water and left

Man, you should have reported who it was...the only way to help control this is to weed out people like this...

With all due respect sir, I belive it is your responsiblity as a competetive angler to report the activity at least to your tournament director, as well as your local game warden (800 792 GAME). The only way we are going to get rid of these cheaters is to let them know that everybody is watching, and everbody is willing to do their part to weed them out of the tournament ranks.

I personally have caught a cheater "Slime Handed", and at the time I did not report the activity to the tournament director.
Instead I confronted him myself, and lets just say nobody has seen him around in a while. However, I belive the best course of action if you are absloutley sure that a person is cheating is to blow the whistle.

I would have been more than a little upset if I had caught some hawgs (like the orginal poster has in his picture), and then was forced to release them and had my entry fee refunded. I don't think the TD would have called off weigh in if he knew whos sack to DQ.

Sorry for the hijack, but we really need to do our part.

Nice PK bass by the way! I'm SUPER excited to see that the lake is back to its former glory!

Chuck,
Thanks for the response. You are right on with reporting any cheaters.

I'm not sure I understand this thread Bass Buster saw someone cheating and just loaded up his boat and went home. You just let them take your money and allowed them to cheat other honest fisherman. So, if you see someone breaking into your house do you just turn around and drive off. By not making sure these people are caught(getting all the info, boat color, description, tx #'s, etc) you just allowed a cheater to get away with it. It also sounds like you are upset with the people running the tournament and are casting some blame on them. Why?

BUMP