Fishing tournament cheating has unfortunately made its way into the kayak bass fishing world.
The Kayak Bass Fishing Series is a popular tournament fishing circuit for kayak anglers. Because these boats are not equipped with livewells, anglers photograph their fish on a measuring board and submit their catch—in inches—to the tournament officials.
Following the Dale Hollow Lake Open, the management staff discovered the winning angler had altered his measuring board to make his fish appear longer than they actually were. Essentially, it extended the length of a fish approximately four total inches.
The cheater was disqualified from the event, stripped of his earnings and banned from the Kayak Bass Series indefinitely. The KBS staff is looking into additional actions as well so the angler will be dealt with “to the maximum extent possible.”
We’re all tournament anglers at Wired2Fish and we’d like to extend our sincere gratitude to the Kayak Bass Series staff. It’s great knowing these tournament organizations are looking out for their participants and aggressively dealing with cheaters. Well done!
We do not enjoy reporting this type of news, but we would be doing an enormous disservice to millions of honest anglers if we ignored it. If this problem is not addressed and made public, it will be impossible to fix it and we are committed to preserving the integrity of this sport.
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Amid a fishing trip on the bass-starved Ohio River in the summer of 1987, Alan McGuckin’s Dad told a then 16-year-old “Guck” — “I don’t care what you do for a living, just promise me you’ll do something you love.”
Originally from Pittsburgh, McGuckin considers himself a blue-collar kid, who has been richly blessed to live-out the best piece of advice his dad ever gave him for many years now in the Tulsa area.
After earning a degree in ecology at Juniata College in Pennsylvania, where he placed radio transmitters in largemouth bass to track their habitat preferences, he moved his life to Oklahoma in 1992, where he earned a Masters in Zoology and Fisheries under the direction of Gene Gilliland at the University of Oklahoma, before then embarking on what’s now a nearly three decade long career as a marketing and media veteran in the fishing industry.
His career spans 28 years of wisdom-rich marketing experience working to strengthen brands and increase sales for Lowrance, Terminator Lures, Toyota, Yamaha Outboards, Boat U.S., Carhartt, Costa, Quantum, Vexus Boats, and Zebco.
- Member of the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame voting committee, as well as a Board of Directors member for Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful
- Co-piloted the Terminator brand of premium lures from its birth to more than 10 Million pieces sold between 1997-2006.
- Has authored and published more than 800 stories on Bassmaster.com, along with several other popular bass fishing websites.
- He has generated $3 Million dollars’ worth of branded digital media since 2020, as a content creator.
- Serves as emcee for hundreds of guests at the annual Toyota Bonus Bucks Owners event.
- Avid angler, who fishes nearly every weekend when not on the road working.
- 13,000 followers on Instagram @GuckFishing.
“Guck” lives just north of Tulsa, OK at Lake Skiatook with wife Sherrie, an elementary school principal who also loves her job, and has a genuine passion for slinging a Rapala Brat crankbait on shallow points and habitat-laden flats.
