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Man Sues IGFA Over $1M Prize
Posted on 7/31/13 at 6:25 am
Posted on 7/31/13 at 6:25 am
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Talk about one that got away. An Arkansas man who caught a record 68-pound striped bass sued the International Game Fish Association for denying him a $1 million prize in their contest.
Rodney Ply, 41, of Diamond City, Ark., entered the "Hook-a-Million" contest, which offered a $1 million prize for any angler who caught a fish that broke a world record using a Mustad-brand hook . Mustad promoted the contest but is not named as a defendant.
On Feb. 18, 2012, Ply caught the striped bass, one of the contest's eligible species, according to his complaint filed last month. However, in October, the International Game Fish Association's executive committee "denied certification of the fish, enigmatically classifying the lure plaintiff used as an illegal spreader bar," the lawsuit states.
Ply said he did not use a spreader bar, but instead used a homemade spinnerbait lure, which typically has a blade-shaped object to spin like a propeller. He said his homemade object "cannot reasonably or in good faith be classified as a spreader bar," according to the lawsuit.
Ply claims he followed the contest's rules and sent photos of the fish hanging from an approved scale, the lure that he made, his rod and reel, and the 68-pound fish.
This post was edited on 7/31/13 at 7:01 am
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Posted on 7/31/13 at 6:33 am to jsmoke222000
Pay the man. 
Posted on 7/31/13 at 6:50 am to DrTyger
Read this the other day. Dude has a shot at this.
Posted on 7/31/13 at 6:52 am to DrTyger
sounds like a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo to screw this guy over..
Posted on 7/31/13 at 7:23 am to jsmoke222000
Is that a mount of the fish? He doesn't look like he's straining at all and the fish isn't flexing.
Posted on 7/31/13 at 7:38 am to Coon
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Is that a mount of the fish?
Yes it is.
The IGFA is a joke, seems like they are more proned to coming up with reasons for not recognizing records (or million dollar contest winners in this case) than actually putting a fish in the book.
Fish dead on a scale showing it crushes a current record, oh don't forget to send in your 3 videos of the landing with everyone holding up their driver's licenses, birth certificates, & social security cards. Oh you don't have that too bad, didn't matter anyhow because the deckhand farted too close to you while you were fighting the fish which is an obvious assistance.
Never understood how they discredit a fish whenever most if not all of the larger species take a team effort to land.
Posted on 7/31/13 at 8:30 am to Scrowe
Posted on 7/31/13 at 8:37 am to halleburton
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easy to see why it wasn't certified as a record.
Why wasnt it? I dont know there rules but only one I know to outlaw an Alabama rig type lure is B.A.S.S.
Posted on 7/31/13 at 8:43 am to halleburton
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Here's the lure he used,
This post was edited on 7/31/13 at 8:48 am
Posted on 7/31/13 at 8:46 am to jsmoke222000
Definitely a spread type lure. Minimal hooks though.
Posted on 7/31/13 at 8:48 am to jsmoke222000
Looks like a mini spreader bar to me.
Posted on 7/31/13 at 8:51 am to Langston
Spreader bars aren't allowed by the IGFA.
Posted on 7/31/13 at 9:05 am to halleburton
Sounds like he is wasting his time then
This post was edited on 7/31/13 at 9:06 am
Posted on 7/31/13 at 9:06 am to jsmoke222000
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"Arkansas Game and Fish had just told him (Brotherton) that if we wanted to have them witness the weight of that fish, we'd have to drive 30 miles to a little town called Summit, Arkansas, and meet them at Allen's Grocery," says Ply. "We called Game and Fish back three times, but they would not send someone out to witness the weight."
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Thus ensued an eight-hour goose chase all over Marion County with Game Warden Jodell Purdam and Ken Shirley, a district fisheries biologist. Every grocery store and butcher shop they went to had a scale that was either too small or not certified. Not even the post office was open.
Meanwhile, the potential world record fish was floating in an 80-gallon fiberglass tub in the back of Brotherton's truck bed, regurgitating other little fish it had eaten earlier. When Ply, usually a cordial gentleman, lost his patience and asked how Arkansas Game and Fish could be so unprepared, they simply admitted that they never thought such a thing would happen.
"My own Arkansas Game and Fish failed me that day after eight hours of driving around," Ply said.
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By the time the men got the fish on a certified scale, it had spit up so much shad that the weight was down to 58 pounds, 3 ounces. Although Ken Shirley came out to 125 Marina the next day to certify Farris Brotherton's scale, which passed all necessary tests, and despite all the witness statements collected by Chief of the Arkansa’s Game and Fish's Fisheries Division, this was not enough to satisfy Director Lauren Hitchcock. Hitchcock wrote to Ply, "I am notifying you of my final decision in this matter: the Fisheries Division Chief and I cannot certify your striped bass as a new state record".
Some shady shite going on here.
Posted on 7/31/13 at 9:10 am to halleburton
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Spreader bars aren't allowed by the IGFA.
The guy may have a chance on technicalities, the IGFA rules only speak of "Spreader bars" say nothing about umbrella rigs or spreading type rigs.
Posted on 7/31/13 at 9:10 am to 34venture
Yeah thats poor. Its obvious he wasnt avoiding them and wanted to get the thing weighed, but thats a lot of lbs to drop too.
Posted on 7/31/13 at 9:37 am to 34venture
What a shithea that Hitchcock. I'd be furious
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