A Lake Erie fishing event ended with the occasion's unique winners caught up in a dishonest controversy.
On Friday, the Lake Erie Walleye Path (LEWT) fishing event in Ohio topped Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyan winners after weigh-in. However in a video posted to the event's Fb web page, one of many contestants seems to query the outcomes on stage earlier than the video cuts off.
One other video [Warning: the linked video contains graphic language] extensively shared on-line captures chaos erupting after one of many winners' fish is sliced open and located to be filled with lead weights and different fish filets. One after the other, the contestants' different fish are gutted, every of them revealed to include gadgets stuffed inside so as to add weight to the catches.
The person who lower open the fish could be heard screaming "we bought weights within the fish!" and yelling at one of many two alleged cheaters "get outta right here!"
The dramatic footage confirmed an more and more outraged crowd gathering across the contestants, accusing them of dishonest in earlier tournaments as nicely and threatening to name the cops, saying that the 2 males had primarily stolen hundreds of dollars from different rivals.
In a subsequent Fb publish, event director Jason Fischer listed the true winners of the event after Cominsky and Runyan have been disqualified and apologized for the dishonest scandal.
"Disgusted guys and gals, I am sorry for letting you down for thus lengthy and I am glad I caught dishonest happening in YOUR LEWT on the similar time," he posted.
"I hope you recognize now that after I say 'you constructed this LEWT and I'll defend its integrity in any respect prices', I imply it. You all deserve one of the best," Fischer added.