‘Call the cops!’: Fishing tournament descends into chaos amid cheating claims
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At Ohio's Lake Erie Walleye Trail tournament, Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky — considered two of the best anglers in the sport — were accused of weighing down their fish.
All hell broke loose at a competitive fishing tournament in Cleveland, Ohio last week, when two proclaimed winners were accused of weighing down their winning catch with lead weights and fish fillets.
On the heels of last month’s chess grandmaster anal bead conspiracy saga, it’s the latest scandal to rock the world of competitive sports and has gone insanely viral in doing so.
It all went down Sept. 30 at Ohio’s Lake Erie Walleye Trail (LEWT) tournament when Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky — considered two of the best anglers in the sport — were blamed for weighing down at least one of their winning walleye fish.
According to CNN, the tournament’s director, Jason Fischer, became suspicious when Runyan’s freshwater fish weighed in at seven pounds. By Fischer’s estimate, the fish should have weighed about four pounds.
“I thought, there’s just no way,” Fischer told CNN. “I could also hear the crowd grumbling, like ‘no way, there’s no way.'”
“I physically felt the fish, I could feel hard objects inside the fish,” he said.
The alleged cheating was caught on camera, when Fischer sliced into the animal and pulled out a lead ball.
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