Help me understand.

[Hanr3]

When the bite is on, your throwing fish in the live-well. At the ramp, your focused on loading the boat on the trailer, unloading gear form the boat, grabbing fish and hustling to make the scales. Miscounts happen more frequently than you can imagine. It's easy to loose focus, and miss-count. Seen several show up with 6 and not 7 too. Also seen them swear they are missing a big one or two, but have there limit. After weigh-in check their live-well and sure enough, they crabbed a couple of shorter ones and left bigger fish in another live-well. Seen that too, got their limit in one live-well, and the partner grabs them out of the other liver-well.

Easy to say how can you miss-count when your not under the clock? But once that clock starts, things change. Doesn't matter how much time you get to fish, there is never enough time at the ramp afterwards...

[Lonnie84]

I was told by a fellow tourny fisherman that was there and participated that it was an honest mistake and that ACT official pull the 8th fish out of the boxes so when time came for these guys to grab there bag and go to the scales they never gave it a second thought. They were totally unaware that they actually had 9 fish in the box and not 8, in addition it is also ACT's responsibility as well to make sure things are correct and not only did ACT make a mistake at the livewell by not counting the fish but also ACT missed it again at the scales; which if nothing else shows just how easy it is to have this happen. My only thought is ACT messed up more than the anglers and when ACT awarded the New Ranger boat to these guys it was done, and if they felt the need to overturn there mistake they needed to be ordering up a 2nd boat for the other anglers.

[Semo]

ACT rule, that everybody is told, is 8 fish only in the box. As soon as the weigh in time passed they had sealed their DQ.

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[Semo]

Rule #22
Rules – American Crappie Trail

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[Lonnie84]

ACT rule, that everybody is told, is 8 fish only in the box. As soon as the weigh in time passed they had sealed their DQ.

I totally agree with you Semo according to the rules they should have been DQ at the scales but it's my understanding that ACT not only didn't DQ them they actually weighed their fish and awarded them first place, of course they weren't aware they were weighing 8 fish but still a big mistake by ACT so they should shoulder some of the responsibility as well.

[bogdipper_2]

I've seen 8 fish brought to the scales a couple times. Once the guy would have won easily by a pound but just got excited I guess, he was steaming mad. The other time was a club tourney and we just let them throw one back and weigh, no big deal amongst friends. We all laughed and made fun of them for not being able to count.

[Ketchn]

excited and careless maybe ? I bet I could mess it up pretty easy myself ....

[Redge]

I think Hanr3 summed it up pretty nicely.
I have seen it happen to smart, intelligent, excited people more than once.
We always counted the bag at least twice, no matter what.


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[BAMA S]

We dump ours out and recount before heading to scales.

[SKs Crappie Catching Adventures]

Well if'n they are sayn 8 fish anywhere they should weigh 8 fish.... why would that be a rule? Sorta like shooting yourself in the foot if'n ya ask me...But what do I know, I haven't feeshed one of these tourneys..... yet....
With that being amount awarded to the winners I'd say there should be more attention put making sure the amount of fish was the same for all the contestants....
Are they intentionally throwing these tourneys?
That would for sure be on my mind with allowing this to happen....
Being DQ'd for using a tagging system? That makes a lot of sense.... how do you determine your BIG fish at the scales?