At the end of the weigh-in video (skip to 57:00), tournament director Darrell Van Vactor explains to the crowd that in one of the rare cases in a long history of fair tournaments, an angler had to be disqualified after a video showed the angler leaving and fishing Barkley Lake then returning and attempting to weigh his fish as if he caught them on Old Hickory. The tournament director then informed the angler that he could weigh his fish, get a check and authorities would be called and charges pressed for felony fraud because it was over $500. Or he could gather up his fish, take his DQ and he would be banned for life from ever fishing a Crappie USA event. The angler chose to take his fish and leave.

"Our Classic was amazing in so many ways and boasted some of America's top crappie anglers on hand for the competition," Van Vector said. "We did have the one hiccup that you never want to see happen as a tournament director, but when things like this happen you MUST act in accordance with the rules to protect the angler who spends his/her hard earned dollar to pay entry fees and only ask for a level playing field to test their skills in return. Additionally, if you do not enforce the rules regardless of how much it pains you to do so, you lose what integrity you and your trail have worked hard to build.