Quick Updates: Mate Fined in Tourney Loss, Amendments

Due to the mind-numbing, puke-causing, overwhelming coverage of the elections yesterday, you may not have heard that voters in Tennessee, Arkansas and South Carolina overwhelmingly approved amendments to protect hunting and fishing as constitutional rights – except in Arizona.

In Tennessee, 90 percent of voters supported the amendment, while similar measures received 89 and 82 percent of the vote in South Carolina and Arkansas, respectively. But voters in Arizona, the only other state with a similar amendment on the ballot, rejected the amendment, with 56 percent voting nay.

Ten other states that have already adopted an amendment to protect hunting and fishing: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin and New Jersey (just kidding about NJ).

Mate’s Hand Slapped

The mate who fished a billfish tourney without a license and cost his team $1 mil – #1 MIL! – in winnings was fined $133 in county court recently.

Sounded like he might get sued by someone on that tourney team, but no reference to that in this article. It does say, however, that the boat sued the event organizers and the funds are being held in escrow until that suit is settled.