Switching boats during tourny.
All the talk the last few months about pros running tin rigs in certain events got me to thinking. Typically a big glass boat will be faster and ride better in big water, where a aluminum boat will get into places a glass boat couldnt.
Lets say someone found good fish in a nearly impossible to get to place 50 miles from the take off over pretty rough waters. What if they took off from the designated take off, ran their glass boat to a tin boat staged close to their area, and then switched boats? Spend all day fishing the secluded hole in the tin boat and then jump back in the glass boat to ride to weigh in. I know this wouldnt be feasible in BASS but what about in a local event? Looking over the BFL and Everstart rule book it doesnt say anything about having to stay in the same boat all day. It says you cant get out to push it into an area or use cables winches or pulleys(someone winched over a beaver dam to win an FLW event a few years ago, guess thats where that rule came from)and you cant get out of the boat to land a fish. It doesnt specify that THE BOAT has to be the same one you took of in. Most local trails wouldnt mention anything like this in their rules either.
What would you think if you found out someone in your local trail was doing something like this? Cheater or genius?
Re: Switching boats during tourny. (Neilslure)
Our local event says you CANNOT leave your boat unless life/death emergency. Changing boats to fish from another in this scenario is not life threatening. ILLEGAL around here.
Re: Switching boats during tourny. (wildturkey)
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by wildturkey »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Our local event says you CANNOT leave your boat unless life/death emergency. Changing boats to fish from another in this scenario is not life threatening.</td></tr></table>
It might be to the fish!!! http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/thumbsup2.gif
Re: Switching boats during tourny. (knowphish)
They also can only check the live wells of the boat you launched in. I think you really know the answer your going to get. It's not gonna fly in any circumstance when it comes to tournament fishing.
Re: Switching boats during tourny. (Bigrod)
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by Bigrod »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">They also can only check the live wells of the boat you launched in. I think you really know the answer your going to get. It's not gonna fly in any circumstance when it comes to tournament fishing.</td></tr></table>
^^^^this....
