....anyone know what happened?

It was reported that that an angler found a bass tied up to a stump
before the tournament. The angler reported it to Fish and Wildlife.
They checked it out, tagged the fish and put it back were it was found.

When the angler weigh-in the fish, with the tag, he was arrested.

Goes to show people loose their heads, sometimes! I'm glad Louisiana
Dept. took care of it so quickly. These kind of things hurt fishing and
fisherman in general.

Something else the peta can throw in our face.

-Justin

www.SecretWeaponLures.com
www.BateyCustomLures.com
www.USABASSIN.com

wrote:
It was reported that that an angler found a bass tied up to a stump
before the tournament. The angler reported it to Fish and Wildlife.
They checked it out, tagged the fish and put it back were it was found.

When the angler weigh-in the fish, with the tag, he was arrested.

Goes to show people loose their heads, sometimes! I'm glad Louisiana
Dept. took care of it so quickly. These kind of things hurt fishing and
fisherman in general.

Something else the peta can throw in our face.

-Justin

www.SecretWeaponLures.com
www.BateyCustomLures.com
www.USABASSIN.com

I fished the Bassmaster Series last week on the Red River, and we were
told then that some traps had been set and that the Wildlife folks were
watching them. So I guess the caught them.

The thing to think about, what was the non-boater/co-anglar doing when
he took the fish off the stump?

JR wrote:

The thing to think about, what was the non-boater/co-anglar doing when
he took the fish off the stump?

I have seen a demonstration of catching "staked" bass, and unless
something went wrong or the coangler was a very naturally suspiscious
type AND new what to look for, he would never know.

Never heard the term Rich, can you explain what happens with "staked" bass?

Thanks,

Warren
--
http://www.warrenwolk.com


"RichZ" wrote in message
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JR wrote:

The thing to think about, what was the non-boater/co-anglar doing when
he took the fish off the stump?

I have seen a demonstration of catching "staked" bass, and unless
something went wrong or the coangler was a very naturally suspiscious
type AND new what to look for, he would never know.

go-bassn wrote:
Never heard the term Rich, can you explain what happens with "staked" bass?


Bass is hooked in mouth with a large safety pin or a simple wire (formed
from a paper clip or similar) looped through the tissue behind the upper
maxillary. Length of light line (6 or 8 pound test, 4 to 8 feet long) is
tied to clip and to something anchored to bottom in reasonably shallow
water. Stump, dock piling, etc.

Angler with deep diving crankbait and heavy line (EG 50 pound power pro)
casts around target until he snags the light mono. As he reels in, the
laws of physics dictate that his multi-trebeled crankbait will end up
bumping into the fish's face. Odds are, he's going to snag the fish on
the outside of the face somewhere, or even snag the clip. Now he sets
the hook hard, breaking the light mono.

Trick was either invented or adopted by some TV fishermen to mimic
actual catches on camera.

RichZ wrote:


Trick was either invented or adopted by some TV fishermen to mimic
actual catches on camera.


We yelled fish on, Camera man fired up the camera then we started
fighting the fish, he filmed all the way through the release, then we
reposition the boat to the same place, and took several setting the hook
shots, When the film was edited it looked like the hook set was on that
fish. On occasion we did get the real hook set if we were filming dialog
while fishing Of course when filming top water baits it got expensive,
and very tiring for the camera man. Bata tape cost 1 dollar a min. or 60
dollars for an hours taping, normal show would be at least two tapes,
but when using top water baits where you saw the bass bust the lures, it
took 4 to 6 tapes a day, That's like 360 dollars just for the tape (used
only once by the way), or course the added tape also greatly increased
the editing time (major bucks per hour)

Today many shows are shot with much cheaper tapes, and much cheaper,
lighter, and better cameras.

Our camera was 32,000 dollars, today you can buy a camera that does it
better for around 3,000 dollars, and tapes under 10 dollars, so I'm sure
less staged hook sets are used.

Wow, that sounds pretty simple & I can even see how an unsuspecting
co-angler could be fooled.

Thanks Rich.

Hey, looks like I may be spending the whole month of September up at
Champlain next year Rich. Federation State Team second week, Everstart last
week, and I'll see what I can cram in there between them - especially a few
days with you bud.

Warren

"RichZ" wrote in message
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go-bassn wrote:
Never heard the term Rich, can you explain what happens with "staked"
bass?


Bass is hooked in mouth with a large safety pin or a simple wire (formed
from a paper clip or similar) looped through the tissue behind the upper
maxillary. Length of light line (6 or 8 pound test, 4 to 8 feet long) is
tied to clip and to something anchored to bottom in reasonably shallow
water. Stump, dock piling, etc.

Angler with deep diving crankbait and heavy line (EG 50 pound power pro)
casts around target until he snags the light mono. As he reels in, the
laws of physics dictate that his multi-trebeled crankbait will end up
bumping into the fish's face. Odds are, he's going to snag the fish on
the outside of the face somewhere, or even snag the clip. Now he sets
the hook hard, breaking the light mono.

Trick was either invented or adopted by some TV fishermen to mimic
actual catches on camera.