Quote Originally Posted by RJR View Post
I’ve never fished a tournament and have no plans to but how does one cheat in a tournament? Outside help or how?
I had an experience in my last local tournament that has changed my trust in fishing them. My team had the highest weight going into the last team to weigh in their fish. I was watching the scale closely and noticed that the scale for the last team didn’t go all the way back to zero. It had .8 pounds left on it. Just before the director put the box of fish on it I stopped him and said the scale didn’t reset completely. He said it did. I asked him to remove the box to prove what I saw. He wanted to argue but I told him just take the box off and everything would be squashed. He reluctantly did because I had caused a few others to come over to see what the debate was about. There was .8 left on the scale as I had seen. He zeroed it out weighed the fish. I won by .5. 10.8 to 10.3 pounds. I can’t say I enjoyed the win tho. I won’t be fishing with that group ever again. And there’s more to this story that I won’t get into here.