I want to give THSBA props for finally catching this guy!! He has a long history of incidents in tournaments on Texoma but other than an FLW �withdrawal �nobody could ever make anything stick. Way to go THSBA!!!!

I want to give THSBA props for finally catching this guy!! He has a long history of incidents in tournaments on Texoma but other than an FLW �withdrawal �nobody could ever make anything stick. Way to go THSBA!!!!

So the linked story has soemthing to do with how the kids are going to make Media, champs, and TTZ interesting? I guess I am not following this far enough down the rabbit hole. Also, are you saying that this cheating is somehow limited to hgih school fishing events only, because I beleive this thread has also confirmed that this same guy has been caught cheating in other tournaments. Can we assume that it will be "interesting" when the participants of these other tournaments "move up to bass champs and media and TTZ"?

Always been lots of suspicion swirling around this person, it’ll be interesting how this plays out.

In defense of these organizations alot of the teams, clubs, what have you are run by people who aren't involved in the "fishing community" for lack of a better word. They aren't on here, the name Robby Rose doesnt jump out to them, when I was captaining I had to have a background check done thru the school that the district I'm in does on every volunteer, I'm sure it's for felonies, etc. Beyond that nothing else. Hell these people still get entry into tournies now run by people who know .....

This guy has been caught before, it was just 3 years ago he was DQ'd from winning a ABA event because of his previous cheating https://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/11489607/Re:_Ram_series_Richland_chambe Does THSBA not have a rule if you've been caught cheating before you can't enter?, I'm surprised no one protested him being involved in the first place, guys reputation was well known in the regional tourney scene.

So my Son was a part of a "HS" shotgun shooting team a few years back. IMO the thing that makes these "HS teams" ripe for cheating is they really have nothing to do with the school and do not fall under the UIL umbrella as far as I know. They often meet at a school and have a sponsoring teacher so they can call it the "whichever HS fishing or shooting team" but in the end they are not really a school sport. In the shooting thing teams would even recruit good shooters from other areas to come shoot on X team even if they did not go to the school the team was "sponsored" by. You have a 501C3 company running a club and calling it a HS sport. No rules other than the ones the company creates, no real sanctioning body. The shotgun thing definitely was that way and we found ourselves paying and enriching the company and their employees but that was it. With scholarship money and prizes on the line, adults are going to cheat to get their baby a scholarship and also so they can brag on their kid. If you want to have a youth tournament trail, awesome but I wish they would stop calling them HS teams because in my mind, and I may be totally off base here but they are not. The other thing that might help would be for UIL to recognize a couple of these popular outdoor sports and have a little oversight. I am not a proponent of Govt., they mess up almost anything they touch but in this case some oversight from someone other than a 501C3 company and whatever rules they create would probably be good.

Scroll down towards the bottom of the post and there is a post about another tournament he was DQ'ed from. Apparently he has been doing this for a while.

HERE

I am not sure the THSBA is to "blame" because an obvious con artist tried and scam their event.

One thing that is for sure, if a person cheats long enough he will eventually get caught. The shame is the punishment usually isn't severe enough to deter that person or others from attempting to cheat in the future.

Well good point but he obviously wasn't using an alias or something since he worked for the high school at Gainesville.

Shallow water, my point about TTZ, champs, and media is that it was only interesting to see if the kids who are learning to cheat in these high school events try the same thing at the larger events as they get older. I'm not saying every high school fisherman is a cheater either.

I am saying that there seems to be a lot of cheating talk and already several disqualifications in a very short time and high school tournaments

those same parents will have no problem throwing a fish in the box to help the kid either

I really cant see this. Possible yes, but most fathers would never do this.