Two fishermen in Ohio were caught red-handed having put lead weights into the walleye they caught in an effort to win a fishing tournament, the discovery causing a mob of tournament anglers to react angrily.
The incident occurred Friday in Cleveland at the weigh-in of the Lake Erie Walleye Trail event, the last one of the 2022 season, asEvidence appears to suggest that Jacob Runyan of Cleveland and Chase Cominsky of Hermitage, Pa.—winners of past walleye tournaments—have cheated before.
The fishermen who had been milling about nearby immediately congregated around Runyan and began assailing him with expletives and chastising him, as Fischer cut into other fish, discovering more weights. Online commenters chimed in with their disgust as well.
Legal experts told The Blade that the duo’s “apparent cheating…constitutes fraud and is a felony.”
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