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It's a shame but fishing comps will always attract cheats, but here's one that wasn't so clever
It was the first Guernsey Bass festival of the year this past weekend and a 10.3 fish was in the lead right up until the final weigh in, when a bloke turned up with a massive fish which weighed 13.13, which he supposedly caught an hour beforehand. However one of the other competitors at the weigh in thought he recognised the fish from its markings. Get this...
Turns out the bloke used to work at the Guernsey aquarium and knew how to get in, so had gone along in the middle of the night and fished the biggest bass out their tank, which had been there for nearly 20 years!
The sad thing is, if this had been a catch and release only comp (fish measured with photo evidence)... at least there would still be a 13lb 13oz Bass alive in Guernsey aquarium!!
I reclkon there's bigger bass in the Galway aquarium!
Any truth in the rumour that metal detectors are now standard in competitions in GB to stop people shovelling lead shot down the gullets of caught fish? read something about it for a trout competition on rutland water...
Kieran Hanrahan
Time spent fishing is never time wasted...
2015 targets - a triggerfish, a specimen bass, a three bearded rockling to complete the set and something big and toothy from certain north Mayo deep water marks
It's a shame but fishing comps will always attract cheats, but here's one that wasn't so clever
It was the first Guernsey Bass festival of the year this past weekend and a 10.3 fish was in the lead right up until the final weigh in, when a bloke turned up with a massive fish which weighed 13.13, which he supposedly caught an hour beforehand. However one of the other competitors at the weigh in thought he recognised the fish from its markings. Get this...
Turns out the bloke used to work at the Guernsey aquarium and knew how to get in, so had gone along in the middle of the night and fished the biggest Bass out their tank, which had been there for nearly 20 years!
The sad thing is, if this had been a catch and release only comp (fish measured with photo evidence)... at least there would still be a 13lb 13oz Bass alive in Guernsey aquarium!!
Genius or Stupid
Well at least it was the right species, I heard a number of years ago that somebody tried to weigh in a Rainbow stockie at a competition on Lough Melvin!
Man is charged with Aquarium fish theft
Thursday 12th July 2012, 9:00AM BST.
A 29-year-old local man has been charged with burglary at the Guernsey Aquarium and an offence of fraud by false representation, police have confirmed.
He was due to appear in the Magistrate’s Court today.
This follows allegations that a fish stolen from the Aquarium was used to try to win a local angling competition.
While officers continued investigations to establish whether the missing bass, described as being under 14lbs, was the same 13lb 13oz fish that won the Bailiwick Bass Club event, further details about how the matter was brought to the attention of the authorities emerged yesterday.
In today’s Press you can read an interview with the angler who realised that the bass had been stolen when he saw it at the Bass Club weigh-in.
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