A 2013 Diamond Jim caught on the Lucky Strike out of Deale

[Tawn]

Live lining is still wide open. Third fish of 10 today was a 2013 Diamond Jim tagged fish. Still haven't gotten my boat back in the water...maybe next week.

[Hockleyneck]

Where the fish is tagged looks red and infected. Congrats on the fish, how much was it worth?

[B-Faithful]

Cool beans Tawn!

[Tawn]

The customer called back yesterday. DNR confirmed this was the first 2013 tagged fish reported. They did not tell him a dollar amount but they have made an appointment to come inspect the fish and have told him he would be required to take a poly....then they would tell him. Not sure they would go through the trouble and expense of a poly for a $500 fish.

[Skip]

Do not hold me to this but I think it works like this.

There is $25,000.00 for the 1 true " Diamond Jim " tag. No one knows the tag number until few days before event in Sept.

If that one tag is not caught - then the $25,000.00 gets divided equally among the anglers who caught Diamond Jim impostors. I think last year about 12 were turned in but only seven or so passed lie detector. Each angler got around $ 3,500.00.

So right now - the angler stands to collect $25,000.00 if no other tagged Rock are caught before Labor day.

That is reason for lie detector test.

Used to be the impostors were worth $500.00.

Congrats on getting one.

[Tawn]

Thanks for the info Skip. Maybe I need to get the customer to come back for some poly "coaching" - I just had my periodic, work related poly last week - I could give him some advice like relax and just tell the truth...LOL

Looks like you guys had a good day with Dale and Jesse....you should have give Jesse a hard time about wearing a Bay Lady T-Shirt on Dale's boat.

[Chessie27]

Hopefully she's worth a bunch of money and he uses it to book more trips with the guy who put him on it! Tipping very heavily each trip of course