[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Mike P

They disqualified Bill Major, and his "crime" was that he had a handful of fish in the box about 2 hours before the formal opening of commercial season.

I'm sure that Team Striper's 11th place fish is close to, if not over 50. Knocking his fish off the board will deduct 2-3 points, at most.

Of course, a certain state trooper who is currently in the news made Major a "major" internet villain by posting how evil he was on every internet fishing site on the east coast, whereas this isn't getting any attention except in this thread. So OTW can decide this without being in the spotlight.

Then again, he didn't try to enter any of those fish in the tournament, so........

Forgot about that little fact. Yes, this will likely have zero impact on the Cup final.

Originally Posted by FishTwoO

Permanent ban.Maybe he'll roll and squeal on his buddies who are doing basically the same thing.

Interesting point but I don't think there is anything concrete that would suggest that. Though I don't think this is the place to further rumor like that.

Originally Posted by Clogston29

OTW got somewhat lucky here, IMO. He didn't win anything too major (2nd place weekly, 8th place on his team). The team will still win so DQ'ing him won't cause any real outcry there. And a 2nd place weekly is only $100 boater's world gift card, so I doubt anyone would make too much noise about losing that. If he had won a monthly, or his fish was the difference in Team Striper finishing 1st or 2nd, it would be a much bigger deal. Seams like he has bigger issues to worry about right now than a boater's world gift card.

Agreed