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Watch professional fishermen get caught cheating to win high-stakes tournament, furious crowd wants to tear them apart: 'You should be in jail!'
The Blaze ^ | October 01, 2022 | Paul Sacca

Posted on 10/02/2022 2:27:17 PM PDT by mowowie

Professional fishermen are in hot water following accusations of cheating in a recent fishing tournament in Ohio.

Competitors at the Lake Erie Walleye Trail Tournament Series (LEWT) believed something was fishy when the catch of two anglers' was suspiciously heavy. Competitors claimed that fellow fishermen were guilty of stuffing the freshwater fish with weights.

It appeared that Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyon had reeled in a victory in the 2022 Lake Erie Walleye Trail Championship event on Friday. However, a cheating accusation sank the high-stakes professional fishing event.

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KEYWORDS: cheating; fishing; ohio; tournament
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To: JoeRender
There was no hard evidence of cheating in the election just a lot of BS from crackpots like Sidney Powell.

One was Wisconsin, where the 200,000 illegal votes would have made the difference.

The law was clear.

Then, there is the evidence from 2,000 mules, which shows organized illegal voting of tens of thousands of votes in several key swing states.

21 posted on 10/02/2022 3:05:54 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: mowowie

Trump policies forced the fish to eat lead weights to survive.


22 posted on 10/02/2022 3:06:27 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Leaning Right

23 posted on 10/02/2022 3:08:00 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: PIF
:Professional SPORTS fishermen which is mostly an oxymoron to begin with. If there is a lake with just one fish of a vanishing species, some professional SPORTS fishermen will go there and take it. "

Yup. My daddy fished and hunted most of his life. We consumed it, and scraps were processed for the family dog. There's nothing like freshwater fish or venison in my book. These days we have a cottage on a lake that has developed a big bass tournament industry. The fishermen are parked right in front of our cottage every few weeks in the summer, taking all the big fish out of our local waters. The weigh-in station is some 20 miles down the lake, where they are supposed to be released. Some die, others get caught by 'sport' fishermen who wait for the release, and others just stay in their new home rather than return north.

The fishing at our end of the lake has been dropping off, per my 80+ year old neighbor. He's fished those waters for personal consumption for most of his life. He knows. You can't keep up with the stocking at the rate they're depleting the fish stocks.

The fishing pros have some very expensive rigs and with the electronics of fish finding, it doesn't seem sporting to me anymore. When my daddy fished in a new place, he'd pay a guide to teach him the area. After a few years he knew it well enough to find his own way around, but it was always based on his knowledge of the fish, its eating habits, movement within the waterways, etc. There was a lot of knowledge and skill. To me that's a true sport. What we see today with these fishing tournaments is huge money, expensive sponsored rigs, and a race to find and catch all the biggest fish using the latest electronics. I find it pretty unappealing but money talks.

24 posted on 10/02/2022 3:13:11 PM PDT by Think free or die
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To: 21twelve

I agree that the HK case doesn’t look like cheating. That said, 60% is insanely good odds. Flipping a coin 10,000 times with true 50% odds wins you nothing. With 60% odds, you would win 6,000 times, or 1,000 more than break even.


25 posted on 10/02/2022 3:20:01 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: mowowie
Behold The Fisherman

He ariseth early and disturbeth the whole household

He maketh mighty preparations and fareth forth full of hope.

He returneth late smelling of strong drink, and the truth is not in him.

26 posted on 10/02/2022 3:22:19 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: OKSooner

The White Marlin Open in OCMD each August brings yachts from all over. A few years ago the “winner” of the white marlin class was found to have cheated and was disqualified. Other fishermen had seen that boat jump the gun and start before the official start time. He lost a prize of over $1 Million. This summer the winning white marlin won $1.4 Million, IIRC. Two years ago a guy caught an 804 lb. BLUE Marlin. He won over $100,000. for that. I forget the exact figger. White Marlin win the highest prizes because they are more rare than blues.


27 posted on 10/02/2022 3:26:26 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: Tucker39

Long time ago I went on a party boat to fish for fluke. Guy who won the pool stuffed weights into the fish. He got caught and the first mate offered to either beat the crap out of him or he goes overboard and swims to shore. He jumped. Was pretty close to the beach so he didn’t have much of a swim. But he lost all his gear as it was tossed in also.


28 posted on 10/02/2022 3:38:50 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (DJT24)
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To: BipolarBob

Well, now that the best chess players are computers, they don’t need to cheat.


29 posted on 10/02/2022 3:47:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: mowowie

They won the Championship in 2021.


30 posted on 10/02/2022 3:50:15 PM PDT by mware
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To: Rurudyne

Brad Paisley - I'm Gonna Miss Her


31 posted on 10/02/2022 3:53:48 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: mowowie

32 posted on 10/02/2022 3:53:52 PM PDT by Bobalu (The bear has been poked in the eye..... Now what?)
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To: Bullish

That sounds exactly like democrats to me.


33 posted on 10/02/2022 4:01:10 PM PDT by baldisbeautiful (I’m Conservative because not everyone can be on welfare. )
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To: JoeRender

“There was no hard evidence of cheating in the election just a lot of BS from crackpots like Sidney Powell.”

It’s hard to find evidence of cheating when the govt refuses to investigate it. Even so there’s this:
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/bombshells-belie-big-lie-21-confirmed-illegalities-irregularities-2020


34 posted on 10/02/2022 4:03:29 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Bratch

Somewhere there is a lucky guy who married a gal who likes to fish, hunt and knows the proper firing sequence for 302 small block.


35 posted on 10/02/2022 4:03:39 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: imabadboy99
at a kids fishing tournament, one of the "daddies" bragged how he himself caught this fish but had his little son take the credit....so the kid could win....

I never understood how simpletons and idiots cheat at the most mundane things....

36 posted on 10/02/2022 4:05:34 PM PDT by cherry
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To: OKSooner
this happens in trophy awards....people will bring older big racks in saying that they were current harvest and then its found out that that deer trophy was featured in a photo from another person, another time....

and then we have people that have the fake trophy heads...

37 posted on 10/02/2022 4:10:41 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Think free or die

“The fishing pros have some very expensive rigs and with the electronics of fish finding, it doesn’t seem sporting to me anymore”

Yeah. those retards are just an embarrassment with boats fitted with enough electronics for a Navy destroyer, their matching Under Armor team uniforms and matching Oakley shades, they way they treat locals who dare to be on the lake the day of their tournament, and last but not least their utterly insanely violent hook setting techniques.
Bunch of idiots.


38 posted on 10/02/2022 4:17:45 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Steely Tom
That scene has essentially become an anthem for our time.

I'm proud I never watched that show "about nothing" and it rankles me to see memes from it.

39 posted on 10/02/2022 4:29:30 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: higgmeister

It’s a kind of violation. Here we avoided the show only to have to see it rise like a zombie in endless memes.


40 posted on 10/02/2022 4:36:00 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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