At the final day weigh in on the Cal Delta Elite Series event this past weekend, I found it noted on the westernbass.com forums that a viewer recognized that Skeet was the only angler of the final 12 to put his fish into a dry weigh-in bag before proceeding to the scales.  In typical fashion, all other anglers had their fish bagged and in the (wet) livewell to easily pull the bag and weigh in. On the contrary, Skeet pulled his mesh bag from his Champ’s rear storage box, pulled the fish from their cull clips in the livewell, and then put them into the (dry) bag, one by one.

By this point, you’ve realized that a wet mesh weigh-in bag would likely weigh more than a completely dry one.  While all anglers were completely in the limits of the rules, and either method of bagging fish is totally acceptable; could this process have cost Skeet the “W”, or, in the least, a tie and subsequent fishoff?  He finished second by a mere ounce, of course.