Re: Big Bass Wheel Cheat
Sanora Ngueyn
It seems as though Big Bass Wheel is a totally random game. The wheel spins and whatever ticket amount it happens to land on you get. Or it makes you think that you are in control of the wheel with how hard you pull the lever.
Big Bass Wheel is popular for a reason. It is big and flashy. The spinning wheel is an arcade concept that brings people in to watch and makes the player excited in watching the wheel go round and round. Pulling the lever is also really satisfying.
Step up, spin the big wheel and reel in the Fun! When the giant-wheel stops, you are rewarded with points. For an even bigger catch, a Big Bass Bonus has been added where players can win up to 1000 points for a perfect spin! Play strategically and win big.
Kellen Ellis had just weighed in the heaviest limit of the field on the first day of his second-ever bass fishing tournament, one of the biggest in San Diego County. The then-18-year-old was flying high. His day got even better when the rock star of California big bass fishing walked over to say hello.
That 2001 meeting led to a decade-long friendship. After that friendship crumbled in 2010, Ellis spent nearly as many years working to expose celebrity angler Mike Long for lying, cheating, fraud, illegal fishing, and physically threatening anyone who might expose him. On Monday, June 24, Ellis published an 18,000-plus-word exposé and two years of undercover video evidence on his website, SDfish.com. The evidence appears to show that, as far back as 1997, Long has been snagging record-class bass on nests, sneaking previously-caught fish into tournaments and lying about record book fish. These transgressions helped Long win over $150,000 in competition purses and gain international notoriety.
Another former tournament partner, Kevin Northling, had both tires pop off his trailer as he left a lake. This vandalism occurred shortly after the final tournament Northling and Long fished together. Northling told a number of people that he cut ties with Long after seeing him boat a bass that he appeared to have tied to a sunken tree before the tournament.
Her first big win came at a Hobie Bass Open Series event in 2019 on Kentucky Lake. At an event on St. Clair about a month later, Fischer led after the first day. As she scrolled through her Instagram that night, she was appalled to see a comment from a man who accused her of cheating to win at Kentucky Lake.
Already, out on the black water, a couple of 200-horsepower outboards gurgle eagerly. Most of the glittery bass boats, however, are still trailered. Their owners putter with expensive electronic gear or cluster in a circle of light spilling from an old motor home.
The next world record bass, you see, may well come from a lake within 100 miles of Los Angeles. It could, all things considered, be worth a million dollars. And that scaly grail is just a sideshow to tournament bass fishing, a big-bucks carnival that is making more and more otherwise-rational Californians lose all sight of the line between simple recreation and a calling.
Within a 200-yard radius, a dozen or so bass boats bob, but between-boat communication seldom exceeds a nod or wave. When conversation does break out between the more gregarious anglers, it tends to go like this:
This week, Silver Current Records will release a remixed version of the concert, previously issued online as a pandemic-era Bandcamp exclusive. In retrospect, it is almost impossible not to hear the strange set of non-hits as an onstage conversation about the scandal that would soon engulf Sonic Youth. Moore sings of cheating cads during "Psychic Hearts," a relative obscurity from a solo album. Gordon commands the crowd to "support the power of women / use the power of man." But in real time, it wasn't like that. This was just a show meant to stand out for the songs the band played, not what those songs signified.
Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth drummer since 1985): It was fun to have Mark Ibold in the band then. Kim could play guitar more often if she wanted to or be a standalone vocalist, unencumbered by her bass. We had a different kind of rhythm section when Mark played.
Mark Ibold (Pavement bassist and Sonic Youth bassist since 2006): I'm not a Bass Player Magazine-featured bass player. Sonic Youth asking me to join had more to do with being friends, just getting along. They also knew I was a huge Sonic Youth fan. I went to Sonic Youth shows from the moment I moved to New York in the early '80s. It was their energy and their presence. They, to me, were the ultimate working New York band.
Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth co-founder and bassist): Our fights mostly centered around how Thurston treated or spoke to me. ... It was probably hard for Lee and Steve to figure out the boundaries of where Thurston and I started as a couple and stopped as bandmates. I was allergic to making scenes and did everything possible to maintain an identity as an individual within the band. I had no interest in being just the female half of a couple. [from Girl in a Band: A Memoir]
Mark Ibold: There were maybe four songs I had probably never played before and, on a lot of those songs, Kim and I were "doubling." I was playing a bass line and she was, too. It would have seemed awkward for me to walk off stage and back on, but I don't know if Aaron would mix both of the basses or just turn me down. If I was him, I would mix me out.
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