Posted on 10/04/2022 10:08:35 AM PDT by servo1969
8lbs of weights & a pair of pliers.
I suspect criminal fraud charges on the line.
> A pair of fishermen... <
Well, there’s the problem right there. Those two dummies should have registered as transsexual fisherpeople. No one would dare to question a transexual about anything.
What does this remind you of???
Their day jobs are democrat poll watchers
And a couple of fish fillets.
The Federal Reserve in various markets?
;-)
This one year, when I was a wee lad, we went fishing in Berlin Reservoir for Walleye.
We caught a few, smallish ones.
We were loading up and this boat rolled in and these two guys have two strings of absolutely STUNNING huge Walleye.
As they were loading up their boat, a crowd appeared around them. A game warden was next, then several uniformed Police officers.
After some time, we got to ask one of the Warden’s what happened and his answer was the same as this situation.
“When everyone is bringing a certain size fish and someone just blows it away, it’s cheating. These guys were using treble hooks to snag Walleye from the dam basin. It’s too early in the year for the big ones to bite with their mouth, so they’re poaching”.
Skill in fishing only takes you so far.
If Walleye tournament fishermen are anything like Bass Tournament fisherman those guys are lucky the crowd didn’t tear them apart on the spot.
I used to fish Bass tournaments when I was in high school and college. The same fisherman won all the time. Their trick.....If it was a Saturday tournament they would fish Friday.....catch bass and cage them over night on the river. The bass they brought in were always beat up...like they had been in a cage all night. This was for $300 top prize. People will cheat at anything.
That’s actually what I suspected was going to be the case first time I saw the headline but hadn’t read the article yet. I thought maybe someone pre-caught some fish and planted it or smuggled it.
Putting weights in the fish seems risky to me. Most people ought to be able to eye of the fish and give a decent guesstimate of the weight just by looking at it if they’ve been fishing for some time. If they keep winning on weight with fish that don’t look comparatively big, someone’s going to start asking questions.
You don’t want to be the target of a crowd of ugly fishermen.
The world is amazing. How some people can get so worked up over something you couldn’t pay me to do. Snoozefest! LOL. To each his own for hobbies though!
Modern metal detectors can detect lead. That should probably be a standard procedure.
LOL That was an earful.
If there's money involved, I think it's a safe bet that some of those guys could really use it.
A cut to a walleye stomach immediately showed a large barrel sinker rolling out, then another and another.
“We’ve got weights in the fish,” said Fischer, who’s a Cleveland area police sergeant.
The crowd witnessing the weigh-in and the revelation of nearly a dozen heavy lead sinkers in the walleyes, immediately went bonkers. Many people were accusing the cheating pair of theft and calling for police intervention.
Sinkers had been wrapped with walleye fillets when stuffed inside the whole fish to help conceal the hard-surface of the lead inside, photos and videos show.
Obscenities were yelled at the two fishermen from other tournament participants and spectators, many of whom were videoing the scene with cell phone cameras. Video footage of the incident has been splashed all over social media, with written stories detailing the event even appearing in the New York Times (NYT).
Fischer told Runyan to leave the area fearing what may have resulted from the increasingly enraged anglers on the scene. Cominsky had already left, locking himself in a vehicle nearby.
Fischer reported to the NYT that he’d contacted Ohio’s DNR about the incident and said, “Everything was turned over to law enforcement.”
I can’t explain why, but for some reason I find this hilarious!
Disclaimer: I am not a fisherman and don’t have a clue about this stuff.
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