FLW Kentucky Lake

[TimE]

You guys don't remember what happened with kevin and One of the flw officials last time at ky lake? He was lapping the field and because he is not one of their boys they didn't like it. On day three kevin was fighting a fish and his line broke.He was using a crank bait. as soon as his line broke he cast another rod on the spot and caught the end of his line with the other lure. He landed the fish which weighed around five lbs. He told about his luck on stage and Bill taylor dq'd his catch 22 plus pounds because he said he couldn't prove that was his line . His co-angler told them it was the lure he had been throwing. The sad part is if they had thrown out only that fish he would have still been leading by around ten lbs.But because they D Q'ed the whole day he didn't make the cut. I remember Dave lefevre doing it on a fish with a shakey head on one show BUT he is one of their BOYS
On the final day one of their boys was on the spot kevin was fishing so he circled him and they called the water patrol and it got ugly. But the WHOLE mess began because he was winning alot of everstarts ,flw .bfl and fishing out of a BULLET ( I THINK IT WAS A BULLETT) He didn't buy into the had to own a ranger to catch a fish the flw has for a motto ,

WOW! Do you have any kind of link/year this happened? I think this would be a serious black eye for flw, especially after the Kennedy guy.

[Bass man]

I was really hoping that him or that boy from Cadiz would bring it home. That just goes to show you the type of "money holes" you can pull up to on Barkley and Kentucky and change the game in three casts.

[Jbyrd]

WOW! Do you have any kind of link/year this happened? I think this would be a serious black eye for flw, especially after the Kennedy guy.

The particulars came straight from one of Kevins good buddies who talked to him after he posted a 0 and lost the lead. It was posted on here I think last year or last fall about the water patrol . Go to flw and look at the standings from past events on ky lake you will see the event ,that a 0 was posted beside his name . I will try to find exactly which one it was .

[MarkW]

If you remember even before all of that he got DQ'ed for running an "illegal boat" during competition because the coast guard tag was missing or something of that nature. The boat supposedly had a bigger engine then the boat was supposed to---according to FLW but in reality the boat was legal. I don'y remember all of the details. From the looks of things, I do not know why Kevin even fished FLW with all of these issues. Maybe he ought to look into B.A.S.S
Just a thought.

[Jbyrd]

Yes , That is what started it . He won a regional in a bullett who doesn't rate horse power in their boats over 21 foot. They just say unlimited hp. They DQ'ed him and he sued them and won. That ticked off flw and they had it in for him. The event that he got his 3rd day thrown out happened in 09 . FLW didn't go to ky lake last year. He fishes the flw I guess because of the schedule. He has done great in the ledge events. Just watched him today almost win at pickwick.....

[yankswon96]

Yes , That is what started it . He won a regional in a bullett who doesn't rate horse power in their boats over 21 foot. They just say unlimited hp. They DQ'ed him and he sued them and won. That ticked off flw and they had it in for him. The event that he got his 3rd day thrown out happened in 09 . FLW didn't go to ky lake last year. He fishes the flw I guess because of the schedule. He has done great in the ledge events. Just watched him today almost win at pickwick.....

I think he fished out of a Sprint boat back then, not 100% positve. I think the whole hp rating thing kept him from winning a BFL regional. But I believe they ended up giving him a new Ranger after it was all said and done.

[Jbyrd]

No it was a Bullett. My partner has a 21 footer. After that happened, he was fishing the bfl, he had bullett to send him a coast guard plate because when they come from the factory they just say unlimited.....
And after he ( kevin) threaten to sue them they gave him the boat, don't know if he got the truck or not??