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Fishing superstar disqualified from BASS tournament

If you are going to fish professional bass tournaments, you had better know the rules and learn how to control your temper.

In the second major disqualification in the past month, the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society reports that fishing superstar Kevin VanDam of Kalamazoo, Mich., has been disqualified from competition this week at the CITGO Bassmaster Elite Series event on Santee-Cooper Reservoir in South Carolina. VanDam is the top-ranked angler on the Elite Series Power Index.

In accordance with Rule 12, Non-boaters are only allowed to drive the boat in emergency situations in both practice and competition with the exception of loading and unloading from trailers.

"We had another professional call us and tell us that he had witnessed Kevin on the front deck, while his co-angler was running the motor," said Trip Weldon, Bassmaster Tournament Director. "The professional said that it appeared as if Kevin was looking for spawning beds."

Weldon noted that Rule 12 had been changed two years ago to prevent this very practice that gives an edge to a professional angler who has a co-angler running the boat for him while he looks for spawning bass.

VanDam was contacted about the incident and readily admitted to what had been reported, saying that he was not aware that he had violated any rules. The inadvertent infraction resulted in both VanDam and Stawiarski being disqualified from the tournament.

 

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