Cheater duo causes scandal at fishing tournament

As in previous years, Ohio’s Jake Runyan and Pennsylvania’s Chase Cominsky were the winners, as their catches weighed most on the Lake Erie Walleye Trail. But this year, competitors got suspicious — and for good reason. Another participant had caught much larger animals, but they were way behind the two fishing champions in scale.

The jury was asked to take a closer look at the winners’ fish. Indeed, a video (above) shows how lead weights and the fillets of other fish inserted into the animals are revealed when the fish are cut open.

It turns out that the cheating champions fortified their fish with a total of 8 pounds of extra weight. Wild insults are heard in a video showing the scammers confronting the find. Runyan is yelled at by other fishermen, “You have stolen thousands of dollars from us!” It took the organizer Jason Fischer – he is a police officer himself – a lot of effort to keep the angry mob from turning violent.

Duo has been negatively commented several times
It is now believed that Runyan and Cominsky have used this wicked weight trick in at least six previous competitions and have won hefty prize money. Anyway, it’s not the first time Runyan and Cominsky have attracted negative attention. At a previous match, one of the two had failed the lie detector test. Strange as it may sound, such methods are common in such competitions to catch contestants cheating.

Cheaters are getting bolder
The cheaters are getting bolder and more creative. In addition to the trick with weights, baskets of previously caught fish are secretly lowered into the water and then hooked up. By the way, during their winning streak, the scammers have won over $306,000 in Ohio-area fishing tournaments alone.