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cheating is always going to be a problem in tournaments. always has been, always will be. i was really nervous that i was going to be accused last year because i weighed in a 44.25 and a 44.45 within a few days. I even called OTW and offered to send pictures that clearly showed that they were different fish (one short and fat, one long and lean) and offered a witness to one of the catches that was not in the tournament but they told me that it was unneccessary and that noone had any suspicions about my fish.
i think in the case of the striper cup, you just have to trust others IMO - giving a lie detector test to everyone and anyone who wins anything seams like too much, and picking and choosing who to give it to has its own problems. I think people would just stop entering if it came to that, and then others would accuse them of not being able to hang once cheating was eliminated, when they really just didn't want to deal with the BS.
it really would be a shame though if a few months from now word got out (as it always seams to in this community) that someone wasn't on the up and up and that it cost someone else.
dangles, take comfort in the fact that your chances at the truck would be equal with or without cheating. we all saw your pic and know that your fish is a legit winner, and anyone who cheated to win a monthly took the place of someone else who would have one it legit, so you have a 1/10 shot either way since you can't win more than one monthly yourself.
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