Anybody heard any news about that prominent angler they nabbed after he weighed in with a fish he stuffed a 1 pound weight in at a Budweiser sponsored tournament in Texas ?

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Funny you ask. Threads have been deleted on the other site. What I read before they were gone was that charges are being prepared and he is trying to plea down. That's all i have heard in the last 6 weeks.

Who knows though. We will just have to wait and see. Probably be swept under the rug. He best not show at a tournament I'm paid up in.

Yeah things are pretty quite about this deal..He must have a good attorney. There seems to be no news anywhere about this. Keep us posted if you hear something.

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what type of charges can be brought?

I don't know what he can be charged with for cheating and and attempting to bilk his fellow tournament angers out of their money.I believe he stood to win a new fully rigged bass boat..that could be a felony,and from what I've read he is under suspicion for his dubious parcipitation in quite a few  other tournaments.

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I don't know what he can be charged with for cheating and and attempting to bilk his fellow tournament angers out of their money.I believe he stood to win a new fully rigged bass boat..that could be a felony,and from what I've read he is under suspicion for his dubious parcipitation in quite a few other tournaments.

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I agree, but they will have hell going back any further unless someone opens their mouth.

No charges at this time have been filed by the Rockwall county DA.

Robby Rose would have placed 1st in the hour for 500 bucks.

His bass would have weighed 9.41 without the surf weight of 16 ozs, 10.41 would not have won the boat, 10.61 won the boat.

I think the BLT staff regrets the way they handled this.   I can assure you, the TD's will get together after this and talk about how to get the evidence before alerting a team or individual to an issue that might need legal attention.

  I think he gets slap on the wrist because the way it was handled by the Tournament organization if he don't beat it.

    Can anyone prove the fish didn't have the weight there when he caught her?   He only admitted to using poor judgement, that can be taken to mean, he thought the fish looked or acted weird, but still weighed the fish in, hence using poor judgement.

  THere is one docuemented case in the US that already noted a bass had a weight that was in the stomach of a bass that was not placed there by the angler. 

   Its on record, so to a jury who knows nothing of fishing most likely, will they see any reasonable doubt?