I was stopped yesterday for speeding on candlewood lake. So candlewood lake authority tells me are you fishing a tournament and I reply yes, he says to me you know theres a speed limit on the lake and I said yes and he says okay well you was going 52mph on a 45mph speed limit, I look at him and tell him theres no way I was going that fast when I just took off.
He then reaches grabs his radar gun and shows me the speed he clocked me at and it said 47mph and tells me oh that the second time I clocked you at, I told him that 47mph sound right i don't know about the 52mph. So he gets all my stuff and starts writing me a ticket for speeding, my dad reaches over to hold the boats together and he says let go of the boat.
Why he said that I have no clue, so he proceeds to fill out the ticket and we both kind of floated away from each other a bit and I'm saying to myself whats taking so long to write a ticket and before you know it he takes off. I look at my dad and we both are like what the hell is he doing. He goes up to another bass boat as we sit there watching him turns and goes into echo bay after a few he comes out running out of echo bay and goes up to the squantz area of the lake, while me and my dad sat in lattins cove wondering what in the world is this guy doing and when is he going to give me back my license and my paper work.
Okay so now after sitting in lattins for about 30mins I decided to go look for him and see what the hell is going on. I run up the lake where he went and I go up the third arm and I don't see him I come back down and decide to fish one of my shores and wait to see if he goes by and then run him down. After 5mins go by I see the boat kind of coming out of squantz cove so I turn on my boat and go after him, as im trying to catch him he pulls up to another bass boat and then relizes im behind him and sure enough he has another guy in the boat with him this time. Well that other guy was the DEC cop they pull up to me and tells me you are DQed from your tournament and you must leave the lake NOWWW.
I look at him and asked him why and he said go to launch and don't ask any questions we will talk to you there. So I drive to squantz where I launched and park my boat they park beside me, the DEC cop tells me im DQed from the tournament for the citations I will be recieving and I tell him for speeding he said no for leaving the scene, I get so pissed off and tell him I never left the scene that it was the candlewood lake authority who left me stranded at lattins. The candlewood lake authority tells me im giving you two tickets and I told him yeah one for speeding at 47mph and the other.
He says no and walks away. Now I just looked up fishing tournaments at candlewood and in there it says nothing about me getting DQed for getting a ticket and Im sure this candlewood lake authority confused me for some other boats driving by and thought I left the scene when I floated about 4boats length away from him.
I will now be seeking to go to court for this and probably be getting a lawyor for a lawsuit.