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Two competitors accused of cheating their way to victory in an Ohio fishing tournament were hit with multiple charges for allegedly stuffing fish with lead weights and fillets last month. Authorities reeled in anglers Jacob Runyan, 42 and Chase Cominsky, 35, after the pair were suspected of fishy behavior at the Lake Erie Walleye Trail tournament where they could’ve taken off with almost $30,000 in prize money.
Next thing you know, people will be cheating in the soap box derby races.
There's been cheating at fishing tournaments on and off for years, it's big money not just in prizes but endorsements.
Anywhere the money gets sufficiently large, the cheating will show up. Doesn't matter if it's Chess, fishing, bingo, youth sports etc. etc. etc.
These two knobheads might actually have gotten away with it if they hadn't grossly overloaded the fish to the point of easily failing the eye-test. They added like 35% to their weight. Greedy, dishonest and dumb. The trifecta.
I watched an interview/podcast with the director of the tournament series, the guy who was cutting open the fish in the videos.
They became too brazen with their cheating. Basically people had suspected them for awhile. Their results and winning record was way too far ahead of competition. But they had taken polygraphs previously and passed them (which I didn't know, but polys are apparently common and standard procedure for these big money fishing tournaments). On the day they were caught cheating the guys actually had a camera man on their boat, and somehow still almost got away with it.
Over time the tournament director sees hundreds or even thousands of fish come across the weigh in scale. They get pretty good at judging fish weight. He said he saw fish that should have been 4-5lb, and when the scale showed 7+lb he said there's just no way. So he took a closer look at the fish, they were dead and soft flesh meaning they'd been dead for a longer period. An alive fish or recently dead should be firm. Then he felt hard objects in the gut and the rest is history.
I hope these scumbags get jail time and lose fishing and hunting privilege for life.
There's been cheating at fishing tournaments on and off for years, it's big money not just in prizes but endorsements.
Anywhere the money gets sufficiently large, the cheating will show up. Doesn't matter if it's Chess, fishing, bingo, youth sports etc. etc. etc.
Spot on.
Once anything becomes more about the money the cheating and scamming will erupt.
Politics is a prime example of this.
These 2 guys have forever tarnished their names and should never be allowed to fish in tournaments again.
As for the politicians they get reelected again and again...
The two places people lie the most when I have caught them are the size and weight of a fish they caught, and how amazing they were at High School football.
Both usually end with "If it wasn't for my" then stick in fishing line or knee, "I would have..." it's the same story.
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