Fishing Tournament Cheating, The Hows and Whys
June 25th, 2007Fishing tournaments are big business. B.A.S.S. and ESPN havea huge investment in the market offering twenty major professional tournaments each year with over $6 million in cash and prizes leading to the BASS Masters Classic, considered by many the “Super Bowl” of fishing. Each Masters event has a prize purse of more than $600,000, with a first prize of $250,000. Fishing tournament scales with their sophisticated load cell technology are extremely accurate, but With that much prize money,is it any wonder that a fisherman might be at least tempted to cheat? Read More…