I've been to the Woods Hole aquarium, the absolute very best in my opinion because I get to see fish that are native to our waters. So I know that striped bass can be kept alive, and bluefish and all of them. Couldn't someone catch a bass, and just keep it alive, feeding it, then just enter it into a tournament/derby?

I remember having a smallmouth that I caught and brought it home in a bucket and fed the thing bugs, flies, moths, worms, and it would grow, shoot I was just a kid, and after it grew too big for the tank I let it go. Who is to say that doesn't happen, after all, when there is money on the line, wouldn't the cost of keeping a striped bass alive and fed be worth it for either cash or a 17 foot whaler or 4x4 pickup truck?

Now I don't do this. I've never been in a tourney/derby and don't ever plan to, but it is possible, isn't it?

I've been to the Woods Hole aquarium, the absolute very best in my opinion because I get to see fish that are native to our waters. So I know that striped bass can be kept alive, and bluefish and all of them. Couldn't someone catch a bass, and just keep it alive, feeding it, then just enter it into a tournament/derby?

I remember having smallmouth and feeding the thing bugs, flies, moths, worms, and it would grow. Who is to say that doesn't happen, after all, when there is money on the line, wouldn't the cost of keeping a striped bass alive and fed be worth it?

Now I don't do this. I've never been in a tourney/derby and don't ever plan to, but it is possible, isn't it?

i have heard rumors that was done years ago in the mv derby, the guy was caught and banned for life. i don't know if there is any truth in it or not.

There are a million ways to cheat at everything.
you just have to have a little faith in man.