The fishing world has been rocked by a dishonest scandal at a fishing event in Ohio on Friday.
Two fishermen had been caught dishonest on the Lake Erie Walleye Path Championship in Ohio when it was revealed that their catch, double the load of their opponents, contained lead weights.
Two fishermen had been caught dishonest in a fishing event to make their catches appear heavier by stuffing them with weights.
Chase Cominsky from Pennsylvania and Jake Runyon from Ohio had been participating within the Lake Erie Walleye Path Championship in Cleveland’s Gordon Park in Ohio on Friday after they had been caught red-handed.
Cominsky and Runyon’s catch weighed nearly 33lbs (15kg) – nearly double their closest competitor.
Match director Jason Fischer then determined to intestine the fish, at which level the duo’s dishonest was uncovered.
Inside every of the fish had been a number of lead balls, intentionally designed so as to add kilos to the pair’s catch and thus safe the title and accompanying $5,000 prize cash.
‘We acquired weights in fish!’ Fischer introduced to the gathered crowd who rapidly turned offended.
Questions are actually being raised about different tournaments the pair have gained prior to now. They’ve already claimed a number of first-place prizes and earned a substantial sum of cash in varied LEWT occasions together with the 2021 championship.
The duo scored the highest catch in final 12 months’s Lake Erie Fall Brawl and tried to assert the $100,000 prize however had been disqualified.
Match director Jason Fischer gutted the fish.
As soon as gutted, Fischer eliminated lead weights from contained in the fish.
Upon revealing the weights, the group was livid.
Watch the wild scene unfold because the fishermen are caught red-handed.
