Quote Originally Posted by arkcrappie View Post
I'll even go a step further and it does not bother me if someone brings dead fish to the scales. Not everyone has a livewell.
Most tourneys require live fish for weigh-in, so as to insure the fish were caught during tourney hours. (pre-launch livewell checks are a general rule) The bigger the "award" for winning/placing in any tournament, the more chance someone may cheat. That was the one major factor in why I ran a "no $$ involved, prizes only" tournament trail ... and packaged the prizes so that every participating team would get "something", regardless of whether they weighed in a fish, or not. Even under those conditions, there was a incident where a team was disqualified, even though they had a livewell full of fish ... since the fish were all dead, and there was the potential for those fish to have been caught prior to the tourney. The team members stated that the livewell (pump?) had quit on them, causing the fish to die ... but were understanding & supportive of the disqualification, per the stated rule.

... cp