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Flatfish---every so often, the Derby has a cheating scandal. There are guys over there who have made something of a career watching other fishermen and reporting them for rules violations. I remember one year, a guy was disqualified because he caught one bass, gave it away, and then kept a second.
Hathaway won a couple of Derbies years ago---in fact, I think he still holds the record for biggest bass. He dropped out of the Derby when they took bass out, the re-entered when they were put back in and won again in the late 1990s. The following year, one of the dime-droppers was glassing him and his two fishing partners on South Beach, and he watched them keep 8 bass So he turned in one of the Derby's "living legends".
Scott Terry won multiple Derbies for bluefish and bonito in the late 80s and early 90s. One day, he was seen by one of the locals about 20 miles south of Nomans. which is about 20 miles beyond the boat boundaries of the Vineyard. The conversation went something like this: "Hey Scott, what the hell are ya doing way the hell out here?" "This is my brother-in-law, I'm trying to get him a nice bluefish." Get anything?" "Yeah I got this nice one at the Hooter before we came out here". "Scott, I hope you realize you can't weigh that in---the rules say if you transport a fish outside the boundaries, you can't weigh it in" "Yeah, I know. No problem, we're just fishing for fun"
The other guy got on the horn and Terry was watched from then on until he docked his boat. He got a 10 year suspension from the Derby. I don't know what Hathaway's punishment was---maybe half that?
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