When I was a teenager my best friends Dad and his fishing partner fished all the big bass tourneys here in Indiana, they would go to a lake a week before the tournament with a homemade fish box and catch several 5-6# bass and put them in this live box.. they won a lot of tournaments and were eventually caught and were banned from all tournaments after that plus it cost them a bunch of money..
same guy was also caught poaching deer had 3 illegal deer hanging in a friends barn and someone turned him in, it ended up costing him thousands of dollars in legal fees to not lose his hunting license for life. Bad thing is he continued to do it even after this, had no hunting or fishing ethics what so ever.
This all happened back in the early to late 70`s.