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Fish Story Lands Man in Jail

By Baker Associates

Everyone knows someone who has lied, or still lies frequently, about the size and number of the fish they have caught. For whatever reason, exaggerating about the size of ?the big one? that a fisherman has landed is as old as fishing itself. Most of the time everyone just assumes a fish was probably a few pounds lighter and a few inches shorter than the angler is claiming and moves on, no harm done. Things didn?t work out that way for a man from Garland, Texas, for whom lying about the size of his fish has led to jail time and a lengthy probation sentence. The man was participating in a professional bass fishing tournament for which the grand prize was a bass boat, valued at $55,000. In order to emerge victorious and claim said boat, the man stuffed his bass with a lead weight before the weigh-in...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on April 15, 2010 (boomark / email).