Van Dam DQ’ed!!!!!

KVD Disqualified

Wow!!!!!!

oops…

KVD should know better

Gotta keep up with the rules

Wow is right!! I think he of all people would have thought of that. Time to redo the lineup for the weekend!

Goes to show lack of preparation can come back to bite you in the It’s good to see KVD stand and take his lumps. I don’t think I would want to fish against him in the next tourney, I bet he all kinds of mad at the bass now.

I really feel bad of his co-angler. I know he had a copy of the rules too, but he is the “amatuer”.

Even though KVD admitted he was wrong..I have to say that is really a stupid rule. I bet he has already gone through and re-read the whole rule book. In my unprofessional opinion, I’m all for rules on safety and keeping the tourneys at an even playing field, but there are some that just don’t make sense. But at least KVD has some time off this weekend……..just glad he didn’t throw a fit like IKE…

Rules are rules. If you break them you should be held accountable. KVD did not throw a fit this time, but the last tournament he broke a fish off and threw his pole in the water. Thats not good for the young fans to see.

Goosekiller i saw that…I was angry that he would waste a nice Quantum energy spinning reel like that! There are fish deprived kids in china!

Rules are rules BUT, I would say that that rule was not really created to prevent that certain instance. It was more likely created to the likes of safety issues.
Who was the RAT? Sounds like whoever it was KVD saw him from less than 10 yards.

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Rules are rules BUT, I would say that that rule was not really created to prevent that certain instance. It was more likely created to the likes of safety issues.
Who was the RAT? Sounds like whoever it was KVD saw him from less than 10 yards.

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Actually, I think the article states it was created for this very situation. Something about pros that don’t have an amatuer would be at a disadvantage as they couldn’t sight fish as their co drove around.

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KVD did not throw a fit this time, but the last tournament he broke a fish off and threw his pole in the water. Thats not good for the young fans to see.

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It looked to me as if tried to shake his rod back and forth but lost grip and it slipped out of his hand and into the water.

If not…well I am a young angler and didn’t see anything wrong with it.

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Goosekiller i saw that…I was angry that he would waste a nice Quantum energy spinning reel like that! There are fish deprived kids in china!

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i know of a few fish deprived kids in wisconsin to. if hes just going to waste it pack it up and send it on over to me

I read what you read Moss but I guess maybe I didn’t read it good enough. I didn’t think it said it was actually created for that specific instance. I thought that they just referred to KVD’s incident and then said that he could possibly have an unfair advantage. No big deal though. I had no real point except maybe, wow. Kinda hard to believe KVD over looked that. What differs between KVD and Ike is that KVD just plain broke a rule by accident. No fine line to walk.
Its too bad. He was pretty solid. He still will be though.

I don’t think that he should be DQ’d for the whole tournament. That seems a little harsh. I think they should think of other penalties like weight deductions or something. I mean this just ruined his whole tournament, i think they need to penalize people not DQ them unless big rules are broken. Jimmie Johnson’s (NASCAR) car in the Daytona 500 was against the rules, they didn’t DQ the whole team they just penalized him. Whatever though just my .02!

The statement that rules are rules is true. Sometime a good thing, next a bad thing. But thinking about what aWelter asked why did KVD get dq’ for the whole tourney? Why I say that is most times if you are dq’d its for that day. Now this is pre-fishing if I understand this right? So this are the questions I would ask. Are the prefishing rules different than tourney time? If so, how could that be legally possible? Nobody has to pre-fish. I guess thinking more about this now, if he was just pre-fishing and not at tournament day how could this be an advantadge or dis-advantadge? I know what will be said next. Well he had a co-angler helping him. What real advantadge does that give someone…but back to my (so-called) point, how can you start to tell someone how to pre-fish, other than off limit water time…..things that make me go hmmm…

curious to hear some feed back on this…as for will this ever carry down to the BFL??? To me…pre-fish as you can..tourney day..by the rules…

Or maybe I missed something left out…

According to Trip Weldon (tourney director) the reason he was DQ’d for the whole tournament was that what he was doing (looking for bedding fish) when he broke the rule was something that could have given him an advantage throughout the whole tournament.

The rules are the same for practice as they are during the tournament.

KVD should have known the rules and he’d be the first one to admit it. I can say for certain that at the Rayburn tournament, Trip read this specific rule during the registration meeting on Wednesday night. So even if he hadn’t read it before, it was brought to everyone’s attention.

Just goes to show KVD is human. He’ll be back. He’ll be awesome. Hopefully this will motivate everyone to read the rules for the tournaments that they’ll be fishing this year.

I remember watching Larry Nixon at the Top 100 on Tonka in 95. While waiting waiting for take off in the a.m. ,he was retying,everytime the boat drifted in too far,he’d have his Am fire up the big motor and drive it back out.