Two anglers whose try at obvious dishonest rocked the match fishing world have been charged in Cleveland, Ohio with dishonest, tried grand theft, possessing legal instruments, and unlawfully proudly owning wild animals.
Jacob Runyan of Ohio and Chase Cominski of Pennsylvania have been apparently caught dishonest on Sept. 30 at a Lake Erie Walleye Trail occasion by occasion Tournament Director Jason Fischer, who turned suspicious after he observed that the reported weights of the fish in query appeared off.
He shortly lower the suspect fish open and revealed that that they had been full of nearly seven kilos of lead weights in addition to fish fillets.
Fischer later commented in a web-based video that, it was “one of the most disgusting, dishonest acts that the fishing world has ever seen in live time…. The individuals involved here appeared to put greed and ego in front of anything else, forever tainting our sport.”
The two would have received $28,760 US for successful the match.
Their boat, trailer, fish, weights, and fishing gear have been seized by conservation officers of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources on the time of the incident.
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