Lake Erie fishing tournament rocked by cheating scandal after contestants allegedly caught stuffing fish with weights
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A Lake Erie fishing tournament ended with the event's original winners caught up in a cheating controversy.
On Friday, the Lake Erie Walleye Trail (LEWT) fishing tournament in Ohio crowned Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyan winners after weigh-in. But in a video posted to the tournament's Facebook page, one of the contestants appears to question the results on stage before the video cuts off.
Another video [Warning: the linked video contains graphic language] widely shared online captures chaos erupting after one of the winners' fish is sliced open and found to be stuffed with lead weights and other fish filets. One by one, the contestants' other fish are gutted, each of them revealed to contain items stuffed inside to add weight to the catches.
