B.I.T.E. Comtroversy at weigh in

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The rumor is that someone weighed in like 27 lbs. of bass and someone saw they had an extra fish in the well at weigh in. I'm guessing someone protested it and their biggest fish had to be throw back in. The director of the tournament said they could weigh in the last fish, but it was too late... the partner had already throw it back in the lake. They went from 1st place, to not getting a check. That would suck!
 
I've heard about the controversy but not directy from BITE.

But...if they had 6 fish in the well in the parking lot, they had 1 too many at the time. If someone seen it and said something, then theres a penalty for that. Most tournaments let you weigh but you loose your biggest fish.
 
I don't really understand how you can wind up with six? I guess you could have got excited by the nine pounder, but if you had 27lbs., why would you keep six? Sounds like a legitimate mess up to me. Sucks fot those guys though!
 
jw_outdoors - 3/8/2009 12:59 PM

I don't really understand how you can wind up with six? I guess you could have got excited by the nine pounder, but if you had 27lbs., why would you keep six? Sounds like a legitimate mess up to me. Sucks fot those guys though!
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In case one of your other five die. emoScratch
 
Do all tourney's have rules against having more then 5 in the box? Seems with the law being 5 a person you could do that.
 
Shawn and Andy Lusk were the team that had 27 plus pounds. They just miscounted somehow during thier day of fishing when they were culling fish. I hate it for Shawn and his brother to lose after catching what everyone knows was the winning bag of fish.
 
That does really stink, and it's actually very easy to mess up like that if you are catching fish. I know that the CBA rules said that you are only allowed to have 5 fish in the boat at a time and that you must cull as you go....so BITE probably has similar rule.
 
Here are the FACTS!

Yes, we came in with six fish. We had five in the boat and caught a 4lber put a spare x-tool culling float on that fish and threw it in the livewell. Wrote it's weight down and erased the smaller (2lb 13oz) fish. We just flat out forgot about releasing the smaller fish somehow. Everytime my brother would open the livewell to check on the fish I told him to close the lid in case one decided to jump out. We never even doubted what we had until we got to the weigh in. We got protested about it and we amitted it. It was our mistake and unfortunately cost us the tourney. The rules stated that you can not have more than five fish in the livewell and that if 6 were in the livewell the biggest (8.87) would be culled to get back to legal limit of 5 and those would be weighed. We had already released all the fish (well except the biggest because it went belly up when we tried to release it and we try to bring it back but didn't make it) so we ended up in 5th with 18.?? with 4 fish. It was an honest mistake that we made in the excitement of the moment of that last fish. It's not everyday that you put together a stringer like that on a day where it counts the most and not be exciteded about it. Just wasn't meant to be I guess. Congrats to Greg and Eddie they also had a good bag of fish. Maybe next weekend.

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tripletdad - 3/8/2009 4:46 PM

Here are the FACTS!

Yes, we came in with six fish. We had five in the boat and caught a 4lber put a spare x-tool culling float on that fish and threw it in the livewell. Wrote it's weight down and erased the smaller (2lb 13oz) fish. We just flat out forgot about releasing the smaller fish somehow. Everytime my brother would open the livewell to check on the fish I told him to close the lid in case one decided to jump out. We never even doubted what we had until we got to the weigh in. We got protested about it and we amitted it. It was our mistake and unfortunately cost us the tourney. The rules stated that you can not have more than five fish in the livewell and that if 6 were in the livewell the biggest (8.87) would be culled to get back to legal limit of 5 and those would be weighed. We had already released all the fish (well except the biggest because it went belly up when we tried to release it and we try to bring it back but didn't make it) so we ended up in 5th with 18.?? with 4 fish. It was an honest mistake that we made in the excitement of the moment of that last fish. It's not everyday that you put together a stringer like that on a day where it counts the most and not be exciteded about it. Just wasn't meant to be I guess. Congrats to Greg and Eddie they also had a good bag of fish. Maybe next weekend.

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Thanks for posting that. Your a class act for doing so. emoApplause
 
Ouch... I hate that for you guys emoBang

Congrats on catching all those fish .. outstanding day emoThumbsup I could understand the excitement ... I would have been a basket case with that kind of poundage in a tourney like that emoToast
 
Shaun, you seem to be tak'in that well better than me! Sorry buddy, real sorry! That was, what $5,400.00? Tx money and big fish? I thought all that mattered was the 5 in the bag at weight in time! Again real sorry!
 
Great sack of fish i hate it for you guys thats a honest mistake that could be made by anyone.
 

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