It’s been confirmed that FLW not only disqualified an angler in this weekend’s BFL on Wylie Lake in North Carolina but they also banned him for life. The angler in question, John Hoyle, also known as Brian Hoyle, of Rutherfordton, N.C. was caught weighing in a bass that had a hand-poured, 11-ounce lead weight in its gullet. FLW has been taking extra precautions in checking the fish at the bump table to make sure no bass were being weighed in with lead in the bellies. They were actually on the lookout in this particular tournament.
After the weigh-in, Hoyle’s fish were kept aside when the tournament official felt a hard object in the fish’s gullet and his check was withheld until it could be examined. As a result of his DQ, everyone else in the tournament field will move up a spot in the standings, and the money will be redistributed based on the new rank in the tournament’s standings. It appears he also had big fish for the tournament (seen being weighed here). That presents a problem because most of the time no records are kept of second or third big bass in tournaments and many anglers won’t weigh a 5-pound bass if they know a 6-pound bass is leading.
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http://www.wired2fish.com/cheater-caught-at-bfl-on-wylie-over-weekend/