Tournament Cheater CAUGHT

ready what song's that I can feel it could be a purple monkey on the bubblegum tree are you ready or not yes filming all right guys basically there's been some turmoil in the bass fishing world and I feel like I have a unique perspective on this exact topic because I have fished tournaments against this guy I have fished not that many against him in the past year cuz I didn't fish that Tournament Trail and he went on an absolute tear smashing them so allegedly allegedly oh he was smashing them he was catching them somewhere not during the tournament on West Point but he was C catching them somewhere but anyways dude's name is Curtis Sanders and you know I don't really want to talk bad about somebody but he did it to himself like that's just it is what it is like the dude deserves everything that he's getting you know that's one thing I fish a lot of tournaments a lot of small tournaments big tournaments you know the Elite Series I've been in the bass master classic I fish and I love fishing bass tournaments I just love fishing them I mean I fish them on this Lake behind me all the time once or twice a week in the summer you know I fish two a week here in the winter I fish one a week or I go somewhere else I fish a lot of bass tournaments and the worst thing you could hear is that somebody is cheating in bass tournaments like it's fun people get off work they work Monday through Friday they got a tournament coming up this Saturday I mean I got buddies dude that will be calling me and we'll be talking fishing the tournament's two weeks out man they're gearing up for it and getting Rod ready it's supposed to be a source of relaxation and you know a sport or an activity whatever you want to call it a tournament and a way to get away from your wife and kids it could be that for some people it's not for me but it could be that for some people but anyways the the deal is it's not supposed to be like this you know bass fishing recently has so much negativity on the Ford face and sonar you know all the payouts everything the rules this league versus that League everything seems to be really negative lately in the bass fishing world and that's just not the way that I visualize bass fishing like I don't visualize bass fishing as there's something wrong with everything that happens you know and to me it's a beautiful thing and it's a very enjoyable thing and I'm absolutely obsessed with bass fishing and tournament bass fishing so for me the negative is tournament cheaters is the negative and I'm going to say this I think there's three times where I knew somebody was cheating or one time I was like 95% sure two times I knew they was cheating this past time on West Point like 8 years ago in a small pot tournament on on week on a weekday tournament we we uh got notified that there was a basket under somebody's dock that we knew and we went before the tournament and some buddies of mine actually got on the dock and found the basket I was right there saw the basket saw the fish in it and the dude didn't even win the tournament we let him weigh in I think he came in like third didn't even get paid we let him weigh in and then confronted him and he agreed never to come back there was another time where we'll fish a tournament on this Lake and it was really sketchy dude weighed in like two six Pounders and a 12-in spot and you know just it he already had some stuff going around about him there's been some sketchy people that have popped up but as far as proven 100% has only been twice you know and one time was recently in a Bass Trail that I've actually fished a lot you know the dude one you got keep in mind some of these tournaments have 80 90 100 boats in them especially the ones early in the spring will have 100 boats in them for these tournaments so you talk about people who are really really good and fish these tournament Trails every single year and over their lifetime win six or eight you know because there's a hundred boats in it and you only get to Fish 10 of them a year if you're exactly average you should win one every 10 years if there's 100 boats in them and there's 10 tournaments like it's not good odds that you're going to win them it's like winning an elite basically yeah you're like you're not supposed to win them that often now when you get closer to Summer and in the fall the boat the participation will dwindle it'll get down to 40 50 boats maybe if they travel to far away Lakes there maybe be 30 boats but steel is hard to win like steel is very very difficult to win this dude won six of them this year three in this one Trail that's the biggest three of them in another Trail and then he won some big benefit tournaments also they got the six before somebody did something they couldn't catch him that was the deal so I'm going to tell you the back story on this guy basically years ago he started fishing the Wednesday night tournaments which I mean some of them will have 40 or 50 boats in them in the spring they used to the past couple years it's been capping out in the mid-30s probably 30 35 boats but 5 years ago me and hunterwood fish some had what 45 50 boats in them some big big fields for you know a 4H hour tournament and he went on a tear where he won like eight or nine in a row you know some people told me it was 10 in a row that's absurd but he won a bunch he got into some kind of a disagreement with the guy who host the tournament who's a good dude like I've never had any any disagreements with him ever you know he's a good dude that host a tournament and he got into a disagreement and basically was told just don't come back so he wasn't proed cheating then but there was speculation around him then fast forward he won a few times uh you know for a couple another year too he did really really well and basically what happened was he people were accusing him of being shady something weird was going on nobody knew anything about this guy he fished around for a long time fished by a ton and then he started fishing with a guy who had a really good reputation and they fished together for like two years and from what I was told they didn't do very well they they got like one check and I'm not trying to talk bad about the guy he was fishing with you know but they didn't have a great performance well they had a fallen out and for the past two years this dude's been on an absolute tear he's been smashing them so you know and I'm always hesitant to say somebody's cheating because I had people accuse me of that you know and I know for sure I didn't you know but that was a long time ago before anybody really you know knew that I was pretty good at Bass Fishing that I don't want that to sound sound bad but that that was back then and uh you know basically I always give PE try to give people the benefit of the doubt until it gets to a point of absurdity and this year it got to a point of absurdity I know that I'm good friends with the tourament director of The Bass Trail and you know I'm friends with the owner of the Bass Trail and the owner of the marina that it runs through we got a blue jay he was beautiful it was pretty just pop right down there to make a cameo did you get any film of him I don't know probably not he was gone quick when he turned over that way but he was pretty anyways I'm good friends with a lot of guys that fish those tmit like I talked to the tmit director you know on a weekly basis a lot of times whenever I'm home so you know I know what they were trying to do and they were trying to to prove that this guy was cheating or alleviate the doubt so they they did a series of polygraph tests I think he got polygraphed three times for sure maybe four times this year and he passed them all which is unfortunate for the polygraph test and actually the same polygrapher that polygraphed him polygraphed the Anglers for the Bassmaster Elite events on on in Alabama so I think so he got polygraphed and still was like people think I'm cheating but I'm still about to do it yes he got polygraphed so this is the story I was told I just know a Walmart self checkout hate to see that man right so yeah I can't imagine he goes in there and scans everything after after cheating in a bass tournament he goes back and he's like excuse me the barcode on this one wouldn't scan want to make sure I pay for all my groceries yeah well what do you think he's scanning Kool-Aid packets for TVs for sure got to be especially now yeah so they don't got his money back you spoiling it you spoiling the whole the whole story but anyways so the guy got polygraph and the story I was told was the first polygraph he telling this story like a 60-year-old mom I'm trying to preface it the the first polygraph he got he was super scared is what I was told like you could see it in his face he was super scared he was about to get caught then he passed it but then for the second two he was really cocky for the polygraphs so anyways they knew something weird was happening he went to Lake Martin in Alabama what weighed in like 16 lbs second place was 112 which is respectable on Lake Martin 16's kind of absurd but he's been weighing in these big big bags when second place will be 12 or 13 lbs and another thing is everybody said when he got back to weighin every single time he would have seven fish in his Live Well for whatever reason he would have seven and then he would call at the ramp which is illegal but they're pot tournaments people don't really police it that well and basically I think what that was was he was trying to pick out exactly the right weight he needed to win the tournaments and throw back the other two so anyways going fast forward to this fall whenever it all kind of came to a head he had been polygraphed three times this year in the last the championship of the tournament they they have a meeting they have a cal cuta he stood up in front of the meeting and they were trying to enforce a rule where you can't fish together you can't fish alone but so many times in a year because these are team tournaments these are Club tournaments a lot of people fish with other people throughout the year they'll Sub in for somebody and just you know a lot of people are just buddies fishing getting together fishing well he's fishing alone and catching big bags and it's sketchy so they're trying to implement a rule where you can't fish alone in every single tournament which is a team tournament you can't do that in a lot of big team tournaments so he gets up in front of the meeting and tells everybody I'm just better than y'all if y'all didn't suck so bad and y'all could catch them as good as I did y'all wouldn't be trying to make rules y'all would be just catching them and beat me but because no way this man because I'm the best around here this is this is the craziest part of the whole story because I'm the best around here y'all are trying to make up rules against me and he stood up in front of everybody and was talking and saying this stuff super arrogant he's not had a week to collect his fish psychopath better better have a bigger bag yeah that's it's that's unbelievable that somebody could get up in a meeting and say that so for the tournament somebody followed him he ran up to it his son came down and fished the tournament with him they ran up and a boat followed him and watched them and they caught like 132 lb while somebody was watching him so it kind of people were like well dang that's a pretty good bag on West Point in the fall so people were kind of like dang maybe he is catching them because that's a respectable bag and they it kind of removed a little bit of Doubt for a little bit day two I think he had somebody following him on day two also caught 14 lbs so everybody's like he came in third in the tournament it was legit this time everybody's like wow so fast forward 2 weeks later there's a benefit tournament on West Point some people that work for the state I believe was out checking the buoys because the lake has a draw down and they came up to a buoy saw a rope tied to the buoy pulled the Rope up had seven bass on it estimated 192 lb tied up to a buoy well in the benefit tournament oh say that it was posted on Facebook and then taken down like a minute later and say that I was I seen it while it was up I was there yeah so it was posted on Facebook that there somebody had tied up fish some of my buddies sent me the stuff you know cuz they know I'm not associated with the guy sent me the stuff and then instantly got the guy who posted on Facebook to take it down off Facebook so that the guy wouldn't be able to see it so the guy who you know kind of heads up the stuff and is in charge of a lot of the marinas a lot of the stores around there and kind of is the owner of the Bass Trail he basically took his John Boat and went to the bank and got on the bank and was waiting there before daylight for the tournament blast off and he's sitting there trying to film so did they remove the fish or leave took the fish off the guy comes running down there in his boat after blast off he runs straight there pulls up to that buoy he has a rod in his boat a metal pole with a hook on it and he's digging in the water trying to find the Rope he can't find the Rope so he bends over the side of the boat and he's digging his arms in the water trying to pull it up and the whole time the guy who's you know in charge of the bass Trails over there which this is a benefit tournament but still it's the same group of fishermen that fish it he's on the bank filming and he's watching him do it and he sees them do it and he's got him dead to rights caught the dude can't find his fish he stays there for like five or 10 minutes gets up and goes fishing well he comes back to the ramp that evening and they confront him and tell him what what they they know for sure now that he's cheating all this stuff and the dude has the audacity to ask if he's still allowed to weigh in in the tournament because he actually caught them fish the ones he's gotten his live well he actually called him am I allowed to weigh in in the tournament it's unbelievable like 13 or 14 lbs he actually caught him and he said am I allowed to weigh these fish in it's crazy that's unbelievable to even asked that so after that tournament you know they tried to they were going to you know try to get the guy to give the money back so they had told people do not try to fight him here somebody should have punched they didn't want to because they wanted to have a lawsuit where they could actually get some of the money back so they came and they negotiated and they got stuff to where the dude actually paid back back the money that he won this year he he brought it and he paid back the money that he had won for this year and he agreed to never come back and fish any more bass tournaments forever so I mean I'll give him credit that he paid the money back from this year that's the only credit you can give this this scumbag but he paid the money back for this year and the Bass Trail and the bass clubs have been diving up the money and paying it to the people who it was supposed to be paid to so that's good I'm glad that he did that and you know but it shouldn't have ever came to that but anyways one of my really good friends who I talked to a lot he actually won the tournament he had 17 PBS in the benefit tournament on Lake on uh West Point and he would have lost if the dude would have got his 19 and half pounds he had tied up so that was $33,000 right there that my buddy won in a tournament which you know he wouldn't have won if the dude would have been allowed to do what he's been doing so terrible story but I feel like it's I fish them tournaments all the time like I fished That Bass Trail a bunch and you know it's it's crazy to think that that happened this close to home but I knew it was coming cuz I knew this guy and i' heard the story so much and a lot of people man we all fish with each other like I fish with three or four of those guys that are in that in that club I fish with them over the years you know in tournaments here and there everybody it's kind of a close-knit community most people that win everybody knows them everybody's fished with them seen how they fish they understand why they won it's very rare that somebody comes along and cheats like this like I really do believe it's an anomaly to cheat I don't think it's running rampant I don't think a lot of people are cheating these tournaments I fish them all the time I genuinely do not believe that cheating is rampant in these bass tournaments like I would be surprised if it was happening a ton so but it was definitely happening this this time and they called him and I knew they were going to catch him eventually I didn't know how long it was going to take so unfortunately what do you think he would do like go get the fish and then like go to the bank scroll on Tik Tok or eat some Buffalo a wings I think what he would do was he would get the fish and then he would go get the get some for the next week I think go catch them for next week well what in my opinion what he would do is he would get the fish and then he would go to the hot area of the lake cuz you know which area is typically going down it may be down the lake it may be in this Creek it may be up the river whatever it is he would kind of just go up there and be seen around some of the best locals so whenever the other locals come in and they've got 15 lbs 16 PBS and he's got 19 like well he was around me all day he was in the best area so it seems like he was kind of getting the fish and then going to the best areas of the lake and kind of just being seen and fishing around and occasionally he probably was culling you know occasionally but you know it's unfortunate I hate it but I'm glad it ended the way he did and he he gave the money back to the people who should have had the money and glad he's out of here you know so hopefully he'll never be another bass tournament for ever I just can't believe he stood up in the meeting and said he was better than everybody that's unbelievable anyways guys we are sitting right here in my new bass boat the next video will be a complete walk through of this brand new unknown bass boat so we'll see y'all be a cheater don't be a cheater this man stood up in the main they say he talked for like 20 minutes