Barkley Cheaters

[fishy1]

Today is the court date for the Barkley cheaters. Could somebody please find out the results and post. Thanks!

[playin_hooky]

I fish Barkley quite often and am curious... what is this all about? who are the Barkley cheaters? What happened? Just askin'

[Danny]

During the relay for life charity team tournament, two guys were arrested after weighing their fish. Allegedly there is video of the two pulling fish from a basket, where the fish had been pre-caught.

The reason for the sarcastic response is that there have been many, many threads on here and they were throwing around names before they had been identified, they had the guys convicted, etc... and in the interest of legal protection for this site, those offending threads were either locked or deleted.

If you wish, you can visit the Paducah sun times, and if you by a membership, you can probably still find the article.

Good luck.

Danny

[fishbum]

As long as you ONLY name names at this point I have no problem. POSTING of articles or portions of articles on this site is not permitted as we protect the rights of the person who wrote the article. I have had my fishing reports stolen and did not like it and posted on another website at one point.
The writer works for his pay and the paper paid for it so they should have the ultimate right to use it.
HOWEVER if you saw what happened and know the names you can post what happened.
NO NAME CALLING, NO POSTING OF ARTICLES, JUST THE FACTS AS YOU Know them.. M'am
Jim Dicken

[bje]

Bassfan also had an article which you can probably get from their archives for free.

[Stonewall2002]

I'm sorry, due to incliment legal conditions we are unable to discuss the aleged "incident" untill all those involved explore all their legal options. This includes all apeals and legal manuvers up to and including the Supreme Court of the United States. Untill then there never was an incident, there are no "cheaters", and untill confirmed by a sworn witness in a court of law, there isn't even a "Lake Barkley". Please continue to live in self induced and legally perpetuated naiveté. Move along son, nothing here to look at.

Keep on chuckin'

[psprowler]

Is naivete even a word? If so I'll have to using it.

[easy_13]

na·ive·té or na·ïve·té (nv-t, nä-, n-v-t, nä-) KEY

NOUN:

The state or quality of being inexperienced or unsophisticated, especially in being artless, credulous, or uncritical.
An artless, credulous, or uncritical statement or act.

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ETYMOLOGY:
French naïveté, from Old French naivete, native disposition, from naif, artless ; see naive



To answer playin-hooky's question, a couple of guys got caught weighing in fish from a fish basket they had tied to a dock on Barkley during a tourney. Their equipment and boat were confiscated and they are currently being prosecuted. Paducahsun.com did have a story, don't know if it's still up or not.

[bass33]

i think they should take their rights of purchasing a fishing license. dont need guys like this on our waters. bad part about the whole thing is open buddy tx's that are for a good benefit or fund raisers are going to suffer. i myself will think twice about getting into a big money buddy tx. hope this makes these few cheaters out there think about what there doing or have been doing and understand we as anglers arent going to put up with this garbage anymore. keep it real and honest.

[Birdman040966]

The cheaters waived their right to the arraignment and did not file a plea of guilty or innocent. They have a court date set for June 20 where their case will either be plea bargained through the attorneys or there will be a trial by jury. I will post the time for the court date as soon as I find out. There were probably 20-25 fishermen on hand today. No mention was made about where the confiscated boat is now or whether they will be allowed to get it back. I encourage every fisherman who these boys have stolen from for the last several years to head to the Trigg County Circuit Clerk building next month to join us in showing both of them just how much we think of their antics.
This is not in stone, but it has been said that the KDFWR has been in contact with ESPN and will release a copy of the videotape to Bass Center when the trial is over.
These guys have definitely got whatever is coming to them. Unfortunately, it will never be enough!!

[fishy1]

Thanks Birdman! I'm in St.Louis but I'm going to make an effort to get down there on the 20th. Maybe I can get a little fishing in while I am there.

[redneckshadrap]

Awesome


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