900K fishing prize taken away

[Hershey102]

Ouch!!

From USA Today, 6/21:

"A one-year fishing license for North Carolina residents costs $15. For out-of-staters, it's $30. And because a crew member didn't have one in the Big Rock Blue Marlin Fishing Tournament it apparently will cost the winning boat $912,825 in prize money.

"It hurts," said Andy Thomossan, whose Citation boat caught an 883-pound blue marlin. "We didn't do anything wrong. But one of our people did. He failed to get a fishing license, but we didn't know it. He told us he had it. He didn't. So you take a man for his word, you know?"

Thomossan declined to identify the crew member, according to the Jacksonville Daily News, said there would be no leeway granted by officials of the $1.66 million tournament.

"They're taking it away, everything," Thomossan said. "The fish is disqualified. We're disqualified. So that's the end of it."

Under tournament rules, anyone fishing aboard a vessel must have a North Carolina fishing license, including the captain, the mate and anglers."

[offdtop]

Ouch

[bob46]

can you say man overboard.

[vetsvet]

If that was the Captain's only responce, he's a much better man than me!

[ESOX2009]

Publicly, you claim that this is the end of it, but then when you are back on the water and no one is looking, that's when you keelhaul the moron....

[Shimano4Life]

****.....somebody would have to "walk the plank".