Why I hate fishing tournaments of any kind

[OVERBORED]

Saw this video. I've seen this crap happen in other tournaments too!

 

[Crabman]

I'm so not into tournaments. Way too much cheating. At 13 y.o., in 1966, I worked at Augie's in Bablyon Village. There was a bluefish tournament going on. While weighing in a fish for the President of the Babylon Tuna Club, I caught him with a fish loaded with sinkers. It was quite obvious, you can't hide that many sinkers in a bluefish. I told Augie's wife and she really went off on him. Then, at 16 y.o., during the Babylon Tuna Tournament I had the largest marlin for the day and another overall largest for the tournament. A friend of my Dad's got back to the dock too late on Saturday and could not weigh in a marlin he had. The next morning, before the 0500 gun, my Dad was talking to, let's call him John. I jumped on his boat which was a Seacraft with a small cabin and found the marlin wrapped up in wet towels. I told my Dad. When John was busy, my Dad went on John's boat and saw the fish. He cut a small piece off the tail. When he got off the boat, he confronted John about the fish wrapped up in the towels. John said he just didn't have a chance to take it off the boat. He also said he wrapped it in towels to keep it fresh because he was going to have it mounted. My Dad told him when he brought it to the taxidermist give him this piece of the tail and he will reattach it. I went on to win largest for the day with one marlin and overall tournament with another. John didn't weigh in anything and I never saw the marlin mount.