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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SLE" data-source="post: 350209" data-attributes="member: 3889">There's not doubt there is a very, very good chance they cheated in past tournaments. That's how you get the balls to stuff 8+lbs of lead and other objects in 5 fish. They got darning and it became blatant. Had they only put 2 or 4 lbs in would've they been caught, who knows. I don't think anyone is questioning that they likely cheated before, the problem is there is zero way to prove it that would be admissible in court because there is no evidence and it is assumptive. I watched a lot of this situation unfold and even the tournament director in an interview talked about an event a year or two ago that this same team won with the camera rolling in their boat for two days. The director said he was relieved because it kind of cleared them of the chatter and assumption that these two guys were cheats. These two guys aren't as slick as ol Tony and there's no way they were stuffing lbs of lead down fish with a camera watching them. As I mentioned before, they were obviously good fisherman and able to come to the scale consistently with fish that would be competitive even without cheating. The cheating was a way from them to basically garrentee their finish. I mean I rolled into the sale with 1 lousy 20" fish few weeks ago, got my ass handed to me. Pretty sure I wasn't getting away with 25lbs of lead in my one fish to take the tournament, lol. The issue now is nobody knows what tournaments they cheated and what tournaments they didn't cheat, so the ASSUMPTION is they cheated in all of them because they've tarnished their reputation with this scandal, and lost any trust without a shadow of doubt that they were not playing the game by the rules.</blockquote>

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