Two men have been suspended from the MLF following a dangerous collision during a bass fishing tournament in Florida
Although it’s hard to tell in this screenshot, there’s another bass boat underneath the boat that’s listing on the shoreline. Photograph by Eriz Panzironi / via YouTube
A professional bass fishing tournament nearly ended in tragedy on March 19, when two competing boats collided in a narrow canal, with one boat landing directly on top of the other. The boat wreck occurred during day one of Major League Fishing’s Toyota Series on Florida’s Harris Chain of Lakes, and MLF determined through its investigation that both operators had intentionally sped through the no-wake zone in the Apopka Beauclair Canal. The league said in a press release that the two men have been suspended from all MLF tournaments for at least one year.
“Boater Mark Succi of Cataulua, Georgia, and his co-angler Jeff…