No, Murph.  It was not a good job.  I like Sam and all, but killing a non-tourney fish is stupid.  If you ask him, he'll probably tell you it was a mistake and whatever deckie was measuring and telling them to kill the short fish ought to have his ass beat.  In fact, there are numerous other tournaments where he would be banned for life for killing a non-tourney qualifying fish.  And, if you're talking about naysayers and negative posts as those who don't think you should kill them for anything, I agree.  But, if you're talking about those of us who think breaking the rules of a tournament are wrong, and then citing sportsmanship, then you and anyone who agrees with you are wrong.

Killing a fish that doesn't qualify for the tourney is a reason to be disqualified.  The PBGFC dockmaster should never have weighed the fish and Sam and the crew, imho, should never have showed up at the dock with a short fish.  I admire them for showing up in public and taking their medicine because a short kill is not what they wanted to do.  Better to be upfront like a man and take the DQ than behaving like that POS at Baypoint a few years back and toss it in the bay.

There will be a discussion about the weiging of a short fish at our next meeting and I will report back as to what is said. Perhaps we could move this to a Tag and Release only with the exception of over 110 or something, but another short fish weighed in should result in a lifetime ban from the tourney and complete DQ from all categories. That is why we have rules, my friends.

Here's another FACT....the "Game On" crew DIDN'T want that fish weighed, the dockmaster begged them to let the tourney weigh it for the crowd!!!  You want to bring up something in your next meeting, bring up getting a new dockmaster.  Oh yeah, he also wanted to keep the fish, thank god the crew told him no on that one.

Scott