Trophy Striped Bass

[bart]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

you know CH you are a respected bass fisherman, but if you are trying to throw stones at another fisherman in the OTW tournament, make a frigging accusation, don't pussyfoot around trying to "see what others" think... otherwise it looks like sour grapes about the guy who is poised to win the Angler of the year for OTW





** caveat, I have no frigging clue who this Greg person is. this thread is just internet crap and furthers my point why I don't enter tournaments like this, it really brings out the worst in a lot of otherwise nice, respectable anglers**

agreed

[rizzo]

This falls into the same situation as high altitude mountain climbers. When someone summits a mountain never summited before and no one witnesses it, they are very supportive of the person and trust they actually did the climb on an honors system. We must do that too as if we suspected everyone of cheating it would ruin us as a group.

Problem is, in high altitude climbing (fishing too), there are cases when you have multiple pieces of evidence pointing that the person didnt make the climb. You can accuse the person, but its a wash because you cant prove it one way or the other. Over time though, if that same name constantly comes up, maybe there is something up with that person.

Like I posted last year, the lie detectors, gutting, weigh stations that actually pay attention and know what theyre looking at all would help this from happening. Even with all that you can still get away with it. People put a lot of effort into cheating when there is money on the line. Even with a charity tourney some will still cheat to give themselves the hero status.

[Back Beach]

This is the same behavior I witnessed countless times at the cape while growing up in the striper surf, thus its no surprise to see it now...

A lot of competitive guys participate in this fishery and due to their competitive spirit they don't like to get beat whether its for one day, one week, one month, or one season, plain and simple...

The insults, grievances, threats, and allegations of wrong doing are nothing new...if you think this silly tounament is bad you should have seen it when guys were making a(real) living selling fish...this is nothing...

I do agree with CH's assertion that there's something fishy going on, but I'm not sure he's got the right person in his gun sights. I believe there's countless cheats in the OTW tourney as some of the prizes are simply too tempting for some to pass up..plus its easy to get away with given the number of weigh stations coastwide and the fact none of them inspect the fish for tampering.

[5/0]

Originally Posted by rizzo

This falls into the same situation as high altitude mountain climbers. When someone summits a mountain never summited before and no one witnesses it, they are very supportive of the person and trust they actually did the climb on an honors system. We must do that too as if we suspected everyone of cheating it would ruin us as a group.

Please note;
All fishermen are liars except you & me but I'm not so sure about that guy