Marty is taking this one on the chin, though he has no intent to tell his side of the story. From first others and footage, he is not wrong in his actions. After we spoke to several others, it appears that there was a barge wake looming well behind the long passed barge. The forward boat was dodging that wake looking for clean water and accidentally cut Marty off. It was just an incident, that placed Marty in evasive action, and his Marshall apparently was not holding on and when they impacted the barge wakes, he bounced out. Pretty simple. There is plenty more to this story, and video tape recording of anglers comments at the scene, as well as comments in process from angler (s) who were penalized. Plus the whole field was in that area, as K Short was out front, with a second angler in front of Marty, and apparently a good portion of the remaining field witnessing this situation. Since they had jsut popped out of the lock, most were behind the incident. If the comments on video were to be released, the anglers would be publicly persecuted. Trip misses some calls no doubt. Though in this one he has the Marshalls from each of the professionals themselves, the Elite anglers opinions, and the opinions of those who where in line behind and came upon the incident. Trip had plenty of time and LOTS of input to make a good call on this one. He had time to make a good call against the anglers and plenty if not too much witness input. From all we understand on this one, there was a great deal more to this than will ever be printed. BCBLast edited by Bass Cat Boats on June 22nd, 2009, 12:19 am, edited 1 time in total.
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