The next day, as they had planned, the three boys went fishing. Xavier wasn't very good though, and quickly gave up. "Just keep trying." Luke said, battling a huge smallmouth bass. "They'll bite eventually."

Xavier shook his head. "I don't have the patience to fish. Must be my racing instincts. Careful Luke, that line is going to get tangled in those weeds by the bank." Suddenly, Xavier bent over looking beneath a seat. "Um, do you guys obey your probation?"

"Yeah, as long as the situation permits, why?"

Xavier straightened, grim faced. "Because this isn't mine." He lifted his hand holding a gun flat in his palm.

Bo took it from him. "How did it get on your boat?"

"I don't know, but I didn't put it on here."

"Just throw it over, Bo, if Rosco or Boss happen to drive by, we're in trouble." Luke said, ignoring the bass he was fighting with. Bo quickly dropped it in the water.

Boss was about to dig into some more raw liver when Rosco's voice broke over the CB. "This is Rosco Peeeeeee Coltrane calling Boss Hogg, you got your ears on little fat buddy? Come back."

"Rosco, I'm not your little fat buddy. You had better have the Dukes in your sights."

"Good news, good news! The Dukes took the bait and I've really got them as soon as they dock that boat of theirs'."

"You do! Heh, heh. Excellent! I'll meet you at the sheriff's office. Over and out." Boss Hogg almost forgot about his raw liver as he headed for the door, then quickly ate it and headed out the door and told his chauffer to drive him to the sheriff's office.

"I don't think you caught enough fish, Luke." Bo said grumpily, like Xavier having not caught anything, while Bo had pulled in 5, all quite large.

Luke was about to respond when Rosco jumped out of the brush, gun leveled. "All right you Dukes! Freeze!"

"Put that peashooter away, Rosco, what exactly do you want to pin on us now?" Luke asked.

"I've got you this time! I'm gonna cuff ya and stuff ya!" Rosco said gleefully.

"What for Rosco?"

"For violating your probation."

A twinge of unease ran through Luke, "What are you talking about?"

"You had a gun aboard that boat of yours."

"You're going to have to do better then that."

"I've got proof, and don't try running for the General, I've flattened one of your tires."

"You did what to the General? And what proof."

"This." He held up a photograph of Bo holding the pistol aboard the boat.

"So that's what you were doing at the docks yesterday isn't it." Xavier said, glaring at Rosco. "Planting a gun aboard the boat."

"Hush!" Rosco said, handcuffing Bo and Luke. After he forced them into his car, he said, "Boss Hogg warned you Xavier. If you don't get away from the Duke's they'll take you down with them." Rosco drove off, leaving Xavier looking furious.

Looks like Rosco's got them good this time.

Cooter was just finishing the final touches on a car when a voice came over the CB. "This is NASCAR Nathanial calling Crazy Cooter. You got your ears on? Come back."

He picked up the CB and said. "This is Craaaaazy Cooter. What can I do for ya?"

"Cooter, I'm a friend of Bo and Luke's, they're in trouble and I need your help."

"I'd love to help but I'm afraid it's too late. Rosco just pulled up and he's got both of them."

"Darn it! I can't change a tire as fast as them. By the time I had, Rosco was gone. Keep an eye on him will you, I'm on my way back to the Duke farm to try and find a way to work this out."

Xavier, speed into the Duke farm almost running over a chicken in the progress and slide to a stop next to Uncle Jesse, who was milking the goat. "Just what do you think you're doing almost running over my chickens? And where's Bo and Luke?" He asked as Xavier climbed out of the General."

"We've got a problem. I found a gun aboard my boat. Rosco planted it there then got a picture of Bo holding it right before we tossed it off." He shook his head. "The boys are in jail all because of the boat I gave you, it gave Rosco a reason to arrest the boys! It's all my fault!" Xavier slumped down on the side of the car. "I shouldn't have even come here."

"Now Xavier, don't take that tone. This isn't the first time they've been put in jail and I doubt it's the last. Tell you what, why don't you go pick up Daisy at the Boars Nest, we might need her help getting them out."

At the Sheriff's office, Boss Hogg gloated at the Dukes in their cell. "So you Duke's had a gun on your boat did you? Finally got tired of you arrows did you? I thought you would eventually."

"We once thought you'd get tired of failing to put us in jail or Rosco would get tired of chasing us. You're still doing that. We have used arrows all this time and still do. You planted that gun."

"Say what you want Bo Duke, but the picture says a thousand words, and to summarize it, you boy's violated probation. I think you boys will spend ten years in Atlanta." Boss Hogg laughed then turned and went to his private office with Rosco. "Rosco, you did well. I think you might find a little extra in your next cut. Now on to the next phase of the plan. Jesse doesn't have enough money to get the boys out on bail, so Xavier might try to get them out by saying it's his gun, which he doesn't have a registration for. You arrest him for possession of a concealed weapon. Then we have him and the Dukes."

"Uh, Boss if he says it's his gun won't we have to let the Dukes go?"

"Yes we will, however after he turns himself in, we will take the Dukes to Atlanta to be tried for violating probation, he'll be serving a jail sentence here and won't be able to testify. Then we have reduced five Dukes to two. After so many years of trying we finally nabbed the Dukes for good."

So Boss has plans for Xavier also. I hope he can get himself out of this one to. Don't go nowhere folks.