Posted on 10/04/2022 10:08:35 AM PDT by servo1969
A pair of fishermen were stripped of their $5,000 tournament win after judges in Ohio discovered that they had put lead weights inside their catch also faced the wrath of a furious crowd on Friday, according to a video of the scene.
Chase Cominsky from Pennsylvania and Jake Runyon from Ohio initially won the Lake Erie Walleye Trail Championship in Cleveland, Ohio’s Gordon Park on Sept. 30. They were awarded a $5,000 prize for their big win.
The duo’s catch weighed in at 33 pounds, nearly double what their nearest competitor had caught, according to the Daily Mail.
But the extreme difference in weight spread apparently caused concern, and tournament director Jason Fischer soon decided to gut one of the fish entered by Runyon and Cominsky.
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Inside the fish, the judge found lead sinkers, and it was realized that the two fishermen stuffed the weights inside their catch to make them weigh more so they could win the tournament.
After cutting the fish open, Fischer abruptly announced to the crowd, “We got weights on the fish!” And the crowd was not happy at all about being duped.
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Cominsky and Runyon won the Blaster Walleye Fall Brawl and the Walleye Slam to earn the Lake Erie Walleye Trail Championship in December of last year, and the prize money came in at a whopping $306,000, SportsTiger reported.
The pair have won other tournaments in which boats were prizes, too.
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Causing even more suspicion, after the Rossford tournament, Cominsky and Runyon refused to donate their catch to the local food bank as the contestants usually do.
Runyon has defended himself against claims that he cheated before. He even hired a lawyer to deflect against allegations.
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I’ve seen the video....The cheat just stood there and stared into space...His fishing days/career are way over. Has to be hard for that guy to even look in the mirror.
Its not always the fisherman that cheat.
Weigh Station: Congratulations you won 3rd place and the scale is officially closed. Hope to see you at the Awards dinner.
Awards Dinner: 3rd place went to a donner.
Wish the republican politicians had got that ugly about the big voter fraud in 2020.
Gezuz...Now there will be metal detectors and xrays of the fish before they weigh them in.
The Cominsky guy I reckon probably lives 15 min from me...
>>Gezuz...Now there will be metal detectors and xrays of the fish before they weigh them in.
Apparently going to need those for chess tournaments too....
i guess the major Bass tournaments actually have tourney official on each boat thats competing...
It’s not just freshwater fishing tournaments, I fished an Offshore Kingfish Tournament in N.Florida one year, the money was so big cheating was almost guaranteed, everything from boats meeting up offshore to exchange fish, to lead weights and everything in-between, the tournment used an X-Ray machine to scan fish to catch lead weights in the belly of the fish.
Normally a fishing tournament crowd *isn’t* ugly?
Hey, cheap shots are still free.
The comments and puns at the end of the article are a hoot!
These rotten leftist will cheat in fishing tournaments, but our elections are perfectly fair and fraud free. Gak~
Now that I watched the entire video it is even more hilarious.
There’s a rumor (that won’t die) that the 67-year-old record for a smallmouth bass (11-lb, 15-oz) involved a sinker or three, in no small part because it’s so much bigger than anything caught since. And the fact that the guy claimed to have caught it while trolling.
Yes...that is correct! It would all be blamed on Trump!
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