Patoka Report

[Topwater2004]

Once again, HoosierDon you try to make things personal. If you could read, you would be a lot better off.

[HoosierDon]

Topwater, what you said was rather straightforward. Either they were lucky or they cheated. Nothing said about being talented anglers who were able to find and catch the fish......

Congratulations on the win guys. I'll be there for the Top Eight tournament in a few weeks. Hope I do as well as you did......

[Topwater2004]

In all sports there is cheating going on. When one stands out well above anyone else, there is an air of suspicion.

When you get to the professional level, there are great lengths taken to prevent cheating.

Is there anyone who didn't think steroids were being used by Bonds, McGuire, and Sosa at a time when others with just as much ability such as Ken Griffey Jr. were still hitting their average each year? Baseball looked away because the homers were selling tickets. Now they look like a co-conspirator to the cheating.

Competitive men will do anything to win. Baseball, track, golf, football, point shaving scandals, horse doping, it happens in fishing too.

Without a doubt, with 170 boats in that competition, somebody was doing something that was not allowed. Just by the shear number of competitors, somebody did something.

There is no way that bass fishing for money is going to be different than any other competitive event.

I have no idea who won that tournament, nor do I care. Unless I see them on ESPN I will never know an angler by name. So to think it was personal was a mistake.

topwater