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10-16-2009, 09:26 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
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I know how ferocious blues are and they chomp at everything. it takes a while for them to die in a cooler. I wouldn't doubt it if the fish swollowed some ice. I know I ain't ever sticking anything in any blues mouth with all those teeth, what kind of tool would you use to get ice all the way down into a bluefish's stomach? I suppose it could happen either way.
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10-16-2009, 10:29 AM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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My opinion is the presence of a foreign object, even ice, in the fish's stomach leads me to think it was put there unnaturally. Every blue I've ever brought in has been regurgitating baitfish it has already eaten, in its attempt to free itself of the hook... If it had been my fish in the same circumstance, I would expect I would have been disqualified from the Derby, which would include the leading bass as well. It just puts a stink on the whole tournament, which will no doubt cast a pall on his presence on the stage as current leader in the boat bass division.
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10-16-2009, 11:26 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Another tournament, another cheat. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Any ice swallowed by a live fish is going to melt from the fish's body temp. Any fish cold enough to preserve ice isn't alive enough to swallow it. Bluefish die with their mouths shut (or barely open). Even if a small ice cube got past their teeth it is not going down their gullet without something pushing it. As for several ounces of ice? Please!
Classy guy.
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10-16-2009, 11:34 AM
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Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
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May fortune favor the foolish....
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10-16-2009, 12:34 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Another tournament, another cheat. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Any ice swallowed by a live fish is going to melt from the fish's body temp. Any fish cold enough to preserve ice isn't alive enough to swallow it. Bluefish die with their mouths shut (or barely open). Even if a small ice cube got past their teeth it is not going down their gullet without something pushing it. As for several ounces of ice? Please!
Classy guy.
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well there you go George 
that explains it enough for me
they way the guy says about stuffing it into the ice in the cooler several times is suspicious , I can maybe see some ice getting into the throat but not the stomach.
another reason I don't enter OTW since the first year.
cheating is just like stealing |
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10-16-2009, 01:33 PM
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Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Marshfield
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Another tournament, another cheat. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Any ice swallowed by a live fish is going to melt from the fish's body temp. Any fish cold enough to preserve ice isn't alive enough to swallow it. Bluefish die with their mouths shut (or barely open). Even if a small ice cube got past their teeth it is not going down their gullet without something pushing it. As for several ounces of ice? Please!
Classy guy.
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OK this clinched it for me. CHEATER! |
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