Cheaters Caught on Barkley!!!

I really hate to post this, but I think it should be. Friday, a friend of mine found a basket with four bass from about five pounds to keeper size tied off to a dock. Fish and Wildlife officials were called, and they marked and took pictures of the fish. Saturday morning, they were waiting in the woods with video cameras and got them on tape retrieving the fish. Officials got busy and figured out what tournament they were fishing, and waited for them at weigh-in. I don't know what they were charged with, but the Department confiscated their twenty one foot bass boat. These fools couldn't even cheat good enough to get a check. A big thank you to the Kentucky Department of Fish an Wildlife. Good job guys!

Any idea what tournament this was?

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Apr-30-06 AT 07:31AM (EST)[/font][p]what part of Barkley was your friend fishing and what tourney was they fishing
Rodney
Tight lines
It is easier to build a child than it is to repair an adult. GOD BLESS

good! hope they throw the book at them. they should be banned from all and any tx's.

WOW! getting your boat takin away, Will certainly teach a lesson. Plain and simple these guys were stealing, Cheating and comitting fraud....Thats about as bad as it can be.

keep a look out for the police auction. somebody might get a really good deal on a boat!!!

I am glad these people got caught and they should be banned from all tourneys but was it legal for them to take there boat. What laws in the law book (not rules in the tourney) did they break. Now dont get me wrong I am not taking up for them.

There are a few fish and wildlife laws as well as state laws. 1 any basket has to be tagged with a name phone number and address 2 a basket can only be attached to your personal property like a dock or house boat 3 game fish cant be kept away from the person who caught them... bluegill, crappie, or shad that is OK to keep in YOUR basket On YOUR property.
theft by deception depending on the value of the purse they are responsible for the entire purse so probably a felony. The rest would depend on the way they reacted when confronted like obstruction or false statements.
Rodney
Tight lines
It is easier to build a child than it is to repair an adult. GOD BLESS

:7 I'm glad to see someone caught. We all know it happens. Rarely, but it happens. I know guys who have found baskets in my neck of the woods (Laurel & Cumberland). Then there are a few shady characters that you are 99% sure they're cheating but you just can't prove it.

Please post what tournament these two were fishing? I'd like to know who it is!!

Here are three possible tournaments but there are probably others:

[url]http://fw.ky.gov/TournamentDetail.aspx?tid=3163[/url]
[url]http://fw.ky.gov/TournamentDetail.aspx?tid=2945[/url]
[url]http://fw.ky.gov/TournamentDetail.aspx?tid=3038[/url]

There's a good chance these guys have done it before.

Fisher McFly

It was the Relay for Life T. The guy that discovered the basket was not fishing. He was just on the dock at a small marina. He told me this morning, there was another piece of rope on the same dock that has been cut. He first saw it about a month ago. These guys won a major T about that time. Makes you wonder???