A Kansas fisherman who had his state-record white crappie voided and “didn’t perceive why,” now is aware of the explanation his report fish was tossed out and the outdated report reinstated.
After an investigation prompted by a tip, officers from the Kansas Division of Wildlife and Parks found weights contained in the “report” catch, as reported by KSNT.
Bobby Parkhurst submitted for state-record consideration a crappie that weighed 4.07 kilos on an authorized scale. It was confirmed by John Reinke, the KDWP assistant director of Fisheries, as previously reported.
Parkhurst had caught the fish final April from Pottawatomie State Fishing Lakes No. 2, and it was reported that it topped the 59-year-old report of 4.02 kilos caught by Frank Miller of Eureka in 1964.
That was earlier than a witness known as the KDWP with a tip, saying the load of the crappie in query was initially 3.73 kilos.
“To protect the integrity of KDWP’s state-record program, KDWP sport wardens met with the angler who voluntarily offered his fish for re-examination,” KDWP spokeswoman Nadia Marji instructed KSNT. “When workers used a handheld steel detector to scan the fish, the gadget detected the presence of steel.”
The sport wardens then took the fish to the Topeka Zoo and Conservation Middle the place an X-ray confirmed two metal ball bearings within the fish’s abdomen.
When the KDWP rescinded the report, it didn’t point out weights within the fish, solely saying that the “written utility kind was not ‘true and proper,’” pointing to the listed weight on the shape.
Parkhurst had insisted he crammed out the applying correctly, saying, “I don’t perceive why they’re doing this to me.”
“I did it the entire approach they wished me to do it,” Parkhurst instructed KSNT. “I went by way of the procedures, I wrote down what I caught it on, I did all the things they wished me to do by the ebook. I did all the things I used to be alleged to do. Their biologists checked out it greater than as soon as.”
The incident is harking back to when two anglers in Ohio have been caught red-handed having put lead weights into walleye in an effort to win a big-money fishing event in September 2022. They ultimately admitted guilt and have been sentenced to 10 days in jail, misplaced fishing privileges for 3 years and forfeited their $100,000 boat.
On this case, the stakes have been a lot smaller. Katie Garceran of the Shawnee County District Lawyer’s Workplace instructed KSNT that after an investigation, it was decided that there was inadequate proof to prosecute the case in regards to the creation of false info.
Photographs courtesy of Kansas Division of Wildlife and Parks.
