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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThanks to a culture of "win at any cost," now a fishing tourney has a cheater.
Guy gets caught red-handed, cheating in a fishing tourney, with fillets of walleye and lead weights inserted into fish he caught.
Link to tweet
brewens
(13,608 posts)working the weigh in or something? Maybe it's different people everywhere they go, but if it's not, someone may have been paid off to look the other way.
Missing something that obvious and easy to catch. With that kind of money at stake. How the hell were they not randomly checking or something?
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)it's great. About a bass fishing contest. Funny stuff.
dameatball
(7,399 posts)Hugin
(33,169 posts)Ow.
What I took away from this video is the fish obviously need sponsors. So, they can wear cool patches too.
Off to get some eye drops and schedule an appointment with my optometrist.
IcyPeas
(21,894 posts)Ya know, maybe the prize money is too large. Someone's always gonna cheat when there's that much money to win. Can't they just win a nice trophy? A gift certificate to Applebee's?
RockRaven
(14,982 posts)Maybe it's a culture which gives a shit about what some other person's fish weighs which is to blame. If nobody gave two shits about some other guy's fish, there wouldn't be any prize money or even any contest.
The entertainment world is chock-a-block with all kinds of vicarious bullshit, but fishing contests rank right up there with watching other people play video games in "oh get a fucking life"-ness.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)We're talking about A LOT-LOT OF people here. Surely you don't imagine they respect us for hanging our personality traits out bare-assed on social media for their judgement? When we could be doing something "worthwhile"?
Don't imagine, though, that these sorts will stop crapping on you no matter what you change to if you make yourself available to them.
malaise
(269,103 posts)Losing is bad
Yesterday I read about cheating in chess.
People on our planet want rewards by any means necessary.
doc03
(35,358 posts)payoff.
SYFROYH
(34,177 posts)Probably since the first fish tournament.
TheBlackAdder
(28,210 posts)dalton99a
(81,543 posts)Observers and officials had suspected Cominsky and Runyon as long ago as last year the YouTube video was titled, in part, "Lake Erie Walleye Trail Cheater Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyan finally got caught."
In 2021, the Toledo Blade reported that Cominsky and Runyan were disqualified from the Fall Brawl fishing event, after they had apparently won, because one of them had failed a polygraph test.
https://www.sharonherald.com/news/hermitage-angler-at-center-of-fishing-cheating-scandal/article_2235e3b4-41ad-11ed-b2e1-731c43c95bc1.html
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They won $306,000 last year.
TheBlackAdder
(28,210 posts).
I wonder what the sponsors can do, if anything, for duped into supporting fraudsters?
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TheBlackAdder
(28,210 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,111 posts)In the amateur golf world, there have been sandbaggers forever.
We knew a guy that was clearly a plus handicap. (Meaning better than a scratch player.)
He'd post scores at multiple courses that were always 3 to 6 shots higher than what he really shot.
Come open & invitational time, hed have a "certified" handicap that put him into the A flight, instead of the championship flight.I
Then, he'd protect a lead the second day by missing putts on purpose so his score wouldn't look too low for an A player.
He got away with it for 10 years, pocketing 3 or 4 grand a year until the host pros started listening to the complaints.
But, I'm guessing he netted $35k over the years by cheating.