{"id":197713,"date":"2026-03-10T03:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197713\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:59:17","slug":"north-texas-angler-charged-after-weights-found-in-bass-at-lake-fork-lure-co-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197713\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas angler charged after weights found in bass at Lake Fork Lure Co. Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A North Texas fisherman is facing a felony charge after game wardens say he tampered with a bass to win a fishing tournament on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img-2786.png#.png\" alt=\"img-2786.png \" height=\"1344\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Texas Game Wardens<\/p>\n<p>Texas Game Wardens in Wood County, east of Dallas, were contacted by the organizers of the Lake Fork Lure Co. Tournament to investigate a bass that raised concerns during the weigh-in, according to the Texas Game Wardens.<\/p>\n<p>The wardens said the fish was flagged after a metal-detecting wand alerted to the potential presence of a foreign object. Wardens then performed an autopsy on the fish and found three weights in its stomach, the report states, that showed no signs of erosion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The wardens then found weights in the man&#8217;s boat that were the same size and style as those they found in the fish.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis Lee Daniels, of Willow Park, has been charged with violating fishing tournament law, a third-degree felony, because the tournament&#8217;s total prize value exceeded $10,000.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A North Texas fisherman is facing a felony charge after game wardens say he tampered with a bass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78123,430,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-197713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-fishing-tournament","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}