Cheating At Fishing?

[Diggin It]

Angry Mob Swarms Fishing Competition Amid Cheating Claims as Probe Launched​

Two contenders have been accused of placing lead balls into the stomachs of fish to make them heavier and videos showed the moment it was allegedly unveiled.



Not quite the whopper they tried to make it.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I thought you were talking about chumming. Years ago after they retired, my mom and dad went camping at Lake Billy Chinook and went fishing for kokanee. They came back bragging that they were catching fish continually while nobody else on the lake was catching much.

"We took good care of the fish," bragged my dad. "We cleaned them right there on the boat."

"What did you do with the guts?" I asked.

"Just threw them in the water."

I explained that was known as chumming, and was illegal. No wonder every fish in the lake was under their boat.

 

[/pine]

people cheat at anything and everything they think they can get away with...probably be surprised at how many do get away with it...!

 

[Mtsoxfan]

fish tourneys every once in a while are catching more than fish.
I remember a big (for CT) fish tourney in Hartford, one team were caught taking fish out of a cage of some sort holding some biggins.
Tourney officials were made aware before the beginning and were there to catch them in the act.

 

[ovrszd]

people cheat at anything and everything they think they can get away with...probably be surprised at how many do get away with it...!

Yep. Did they cut open every fish in the tournament?

 

[Jstpssng]

I believe there was a $5000 prize involved... that can make a lot of people a bit shady.

 

[Alan W.]

I remember that happening one year at the National Tournament, for high schoolers, in Florence AL.
My son was fishing in it and they noticed people in boats watching them with binoculars. Turns out a team was getting fish out of cages placed in various spots.
Nothing publicly was said but you knew who it was by the disqualified ranking.

 

[ruffdog]

Here is the video!

 

[bdhsfz6]

Nobody cheated at fishing better than the McCann brothers in Second Hand Lions:

 

[caver]

...and Second Hand Lions is free on youtube movies at the moment.