2 fishermen caught cheating at Ohio tournament plead guilty

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2 fishermen caught cheating at Ohio tournament plead guilty

by: The Associated Press
Posted: Mar 27, 2023 / 04:31 PM EDT
Updated: Mar 27, 2023 / 04:31 PM EDT

CLEVELAND (AP) — Two men accused of stuffing fish with lead weights and fish fillets in an attempt to win thousands of dollars in an Ohio fishing tournament last fall pleaded guilty Monday to charges including cheating.

The cheating allegations surfaced in September when Lake Erie Walleye Trail tournament Director Jason Fischer became suspicious when the fish turned in by Jacob Runyan, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, and Chase Cominsky, of Hermitage, Pennsylvania, were significantly heavier than typical walleye.

A crowd of people at Gordon Park in Cleveland watched as Fischer cut the walleye open and found weights and walleye fillets stuffed inside.

As part of a plea deal, Runyan and Cominsky pleaded guilty to cheating and unlawful ownership of wild animals and agreed to three-year suspensions of their fishing licenses. Cominsky also agreed to give up his bass boat worth $100,000.

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1. They should be locked up for just being dumb. You can tell how

much a fish weighs by its length. It can very some if they have eggs but if every fish you catch
is a pound more than normal it is kind of a red flag.