West Boggs

[idbefishing]

LOL - Do you think I host Candid Camera or something? I've got way more productive uses of my time. Beside, how much more proof is needed beyond knowing and talking to members of two separate bass clubs that have done the very things I mentioned? You want club names, dates fished, winning weights, where the fish were caught at and on what, and where the fish were ultimately taken after weighing? I've got that info too, but I'm not telling.

I simply wanted to make the point that beyond the reasons of normal harvest and shad invasions, I find it ironic that the group (bass club anglers) who are the biggest whiners and gripers of poor bass fisheries and W. Boggs regulations are the very ones contributing to the problem by their own actions. If you belong to a bass club start asking around and see if some of your members haven't heard or know of the same thing happening...it's not like it's some big secret that this is occuring. How many times has Mike come on the forum and mentioned catching another illegal tourney? That should be proof enough in and of itself.

Well, unless, 1: the person/s that you were talking to testify under oath that they actually witnessed or participated in those events, 2: someone is charged and convicted of the crime then it's concrete proofs other then that it's just gossips. That's it! Nothing more, nothing less. I have little doubt that these events actually happenned but I wouldn't be publicly pointing finger. By the way, since you have the knowledge of those supposedly incriminating facts and you're not telling. You could be charge with obstructing justice my friend. I do belong to a club and our members haven't heard or know of these things. We don't fish W. Boggs. Mike Axxom have posted on this board about illegal events that were caught but those were the ones that had the weight-in on-site if I remember correctly.

what has happened is in large part due to the "arrogance" of some of the tourney bass clubs and anglers. So they started sneaking in and running what are considered "illegal" tournies

I'm not saying they're (illegal tournies) the biggest problem, just that they are contributing to the decline.

Aren't you contradicting yourself by what you have been saying so far??