Poacher dragged off from Deer Expo

Johnny Clay is in big trouble stemming from a 2009 deer he claimed as the #1 bowkill in Kentucky.  The problem is that it now seems likely it was poached with a rifle in Ohio.  Oooops.






This guy is from just upriver from us in Adams County, Ohio.  As I understand the story, Johnny Clay claimed he took the buck on a Lewis County, KY WMA.  He had this elaborate story about how he'd arrowed the deer in September and then spent over a week tracking it.  When he finally found it, it was all gone but the head.

Later, a neighbor of Johnny's came up with the same deer on his webcam, only this webcam had been on the other side of the Ohio River, back where Johnny lives in Ohio.  Ooops. 

There had been a lot of controversy over the buck on KentuckyHunting.net.  There were a bunch of people that had trouble swallowing the original story. Johnny and his supporters were on there, swearing it was all true.

The whole thing came to a dramatic climax when the CO's carted off Johnny and his deer from their booth at the  Lewis County Deer Expo in early March.  Johnny is in deep do-do, probably most of all for carting the head across state lines in order to perpetrate the hoax.

If you want more on  this soap opera, I can recommend the following reading:

http://www.kentuckyhunting.net/forums/showthread.php?t=92972

and from when the stuff started to hit the fan in January:

http://www.kentuckyhunting.net/forums/showthread.php?t=90625