Pro fishing tournament scandal. Winners caught stuffing fish with weights, etc for heaviest catch.

[tenderfoot]

Serious Controversy in Pro fishing tournament as multiple-time winners caught stuffing lead weights and other fish filets in their fish to have the heaviest catch to win hundreds of thousands in prizes.

Link to tweet

Full thread for twitter haters: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1576246821139070976.html

[Me.]

1. Is Nobody Honest Anymore?

[CurtEastPoint]

2. He must be a repube. Lie, cheat, steal.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Omitting the 5 Ws is not helpful.

[CatWoman]

4. that's low

[petronius]

5. Cracked me up that the subtitles were censored but the audio wasn't

Also a bit surprised that that there weren't already procedures in place to prevent this (but maybe competitive fishing is--or was--the last honorable sport)...

[BlueSpot]

6. I guess the jig is up n/t

[oioioi]

9. .

[NBachers]

10. I hope every minute of the rest of the cheaters' lives is just like this, non-stop.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. A last meal, like.

When most everything in the world is winner-take-all, most everyone becomes a cheater by necessity.

[underpants]

8. Serious business. Look at the sponsors on everyone. My brother-in-law used to be in

fishing tournaments. Smaller stakes but still a big deal. People with ample means competing for a couple thousand backs in the pool. Weekly pay outs. They police themselves and know if something is iffy.

[elleng]

11. Learned to cheat from whom???

[doc03]

12. In a local bass tournament someone was caught

planting fish in an old washing machine basket that they had caught the week before the tournament. If there is money involved someone will cheat.

[dalton99a]

13. They need a certified portable X-ray machine at every tournament

[RussBLib]

14. That's been going on just about as long as there's been fishing tournaments

Every year someone is caught doing that. Not even the ladies tournaments are immune.

[Timewas]

15. Metal detectors

Make them pass through..... But that won't catch the other stuffings...

[Turbineguy]

16. Dumbbells

[RSherman]

17. ha ha cheating at wood chuck hunt

I live near the rod and gun club. Years ago they had a woodchuck hunt. The hats and mugs read "Woodchuck hunt '99: Look out, they are getting smarter". ha ha. Wasn't sure if the smarters were the animal chucks or the people chucks. The guy in charge of the BBQ was wearing a black t-shirt with a pic of a red/white/blue condom and it read "Cover me. I'm going in". ha ha, holy crap. Anyway, on Monday, two students told me that they won. (The chucks are weighed and heaviest wins). They said they cheated. They shot a chuck a year ago, filled it with 7 Up and froze it, then thawed it for the contest. Wow, what kids will use their smarts for!

[CatWoman]

26. how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

[RSherman]

18. Carl Hiaasan

Author Carl Hiaasan has a very funny book and it features characters going to many lengths to cheat fishing tournaments.

[dchill]

19. Hey! That's just how they WIN!

Republican fishermen!

[keithbvadu2]

20. Any good guys with a gun in the crowd?

Not a bunch of happy campers there.

[Renew Deal]

22. There were good guys with fish hooks and filet knives

Not sure if that counts.

[Renew Deal]

21. Crazy. Glad they got caught

How many people knew about it? There could be lawsuits and prison if multiple people were involved.

[dalton99a]

23. Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyon

Multiple media outlets, including the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, have reported that Hermitage resident Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyon, of Cleveland, had been the event's apparent winners until a tournament official cut open one of the fish they caught, as seen in a YouTube video (WARNING: The video contains explicit language), and produced weights, which would have increased the poundage of their catch.

Observers and officials had suspected Cominsky and Runyon as long ago as last year — the YouTube video was titled, in part, "Lake Erie Walleye Trail Cheater Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyan finally got caught."

In 2021, the Toledo Blade reported that Cominsky and Runyan were disqualified from the Fall Brawl fishing event, after they had apparently won, because one of them had failed a polygraph test.

https://www.sharonherald.com/news/hermitage-angler-at-center-of-fishing-cheating-scandal/article_2235e3b4-41ad-11ed-b2e1-731c43c95bc1.html

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They won $306,000 last year.

[Sympthsical]

24. Chess butt plugs and fish weights

It's getting to be you can't trust anyone anymore.

This is why I only watch competitive vacuuming now. You can't hide glitter!

[Emile]

25. They must be Trump University graduates.