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8 pounds of lead and fish fillets stuffed in fish , $45,000 prize money 

 

 

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Glad they got busted, it s almost as bad when someone here trespasses on other deer hunters, we just got sick and tired  of hunters calling up complaining (well he was trespass hunting and you need to put a stop to it, i as always well you wanted to hunt so deal with it!! Finally we started renting  to family, we had people shoot at each other while hunting etc etc ...... All this stinking dramsa ?? I won't put up with it!! I senT  twinky out .of here on a rail, he still owes me money WHICH I WILL COLECT!! Point being if they want to deer hunt .... Well buy some property !! And stay the .! off of mine!! 

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8 hours ago, Fishfiles said:

8 pounds of lead and fish fillets stuffed in fish , $45,000 prize money 

 

 

Bet Ranger boats is looking for someone else to sponsor. 

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By now you’ve probably heard about the Ohio walleye tournament that set the world of professional angling ablaze on September 30. If you haven’t, here are the details: Two successful pros from the Lake Erie walleye fishing circuit are in serious hot water after they cheated during a weigh-in and got caught red-handed in front of a throng of angry spectators and fellow tournament anglers.

After an investigation by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office, Jacob Runyan, 42, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, and Chase Cominsky, 35, of Hermitage, Pennsylvania, were hit with felony charges of cheating, grand theft, and possessing criminal tools. They were also charged with unlawfully owning wild animals, which is a misdemeanor, according to the Associated Press.

The whole ordeal has been covered by such national outlets as the New York Times, CBS, and the Washington Post—just to name a few. F&S obtained exclusive video footage from a kayak fisherman who was at the weigh-in when the chaos ensued.

Runyon and Cominski stood to win as much as $30,000 in prize money and a “Team of the Year Award” when Jason Fischer, director of the Lake Erie Walleye Trail Tournament series, became suspicious of their day’s catch. After asking the anglers to pose for photos with their fish, Fischer called Runyon back over to the weigh-in table so he could have another look, and here’s what happened next.

For anyone with sensitive ears, please note that the video below is littered with F-bombs.

 

Fischer made the discovery in dramatic fashion, slicing into the walleye bellies with a knife and yanking out multiple egg-shaped sinkers that the duo had shoved down the throats of the fish. By the time he was done examining their catch, he’d extracted a total of ten lead weights and several fish filets.

According to tournament angler Chuck Earls, who competed in the event from a kayak and attended the weigh-in, both Cominski and Runyon have been suspected of cheating before. Earls is a kayak fishing guide on Lake Erie and the creator of the Lake Erie Walleye Trail Kayak Fishing Division.

He said Cominski was disqualified from a fall walleye tournament last year after a failed polygraph test. “At the beginning of this year, somebody warned me about them and said they heard they were stuffing worms down fish before weigh-ins,” Earls says. He suspects that the men added the fish filets in order to mask the unnatural appearance, feel, and sound of the lead. “Out of five fish they had eight pounds of lead,” he says. “I think the walleye filets were maybe to keep the lead from clanking, or maybe to keep the fish from throwing it up.”

Pro Anglers Caught Stuffing Walleyes with Lead Weights Charged with Multiple Felonies Runyon was escorted from the scene by a uniformed police officer. Chuck Earls

Cominski and Runyon eventually left the scene of the weigh-in, but Earls says they didn’t go quietly. “They were flipping us all off as they drove away,” he says. “They showed no remorse whatsoever. Some of the other guys got screwed out of a $130,000 fishing boat and were spending $300 to $400 in gas alone to fish this tournament. So I can see where all the emotion [in the video] came from.”

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After the chaos of the weigh-in died down and the rightful winners claimed their prize money, officials with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) showed up to investigate the incident. In an official statement provided to F&S via email, ODNR public information officer Stephanie O’Grady said that officers collected evidence and prepared a report for the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office.

According to FOX 8 Cleveland, that report and the subsequent investigation led to the seizure of a boat and trailer from Cominski’s Hermitage, Pennsylvania home, on Tuesday, October 11. According to an affidavit obtained by the local media outlet, both the boat and the trailer were used in connection with the men’s crimes. The disgraced anglers will be arraigned on October 26. For their combined felonies, they could face up to 12 months in prison and fines of $2,500 per offense, reports the Toledo Blade.

Earls says that he hopes Runyon’s and Cominski’s bad actions don’t completely outshine the community-oriented nature of the Lake Erie Walleye Trail tournament series. “After they left, we came together and finished the event off right,” he says. “There’s always a silver lining. I think this is going to bring us closer together as a community and a league. And maybe it’ll bring about some changes in the tournament world that will deter this kind of cheating in the future.”

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On 10/2/2022 at 9:57 AM, _Wilson_™ said:

Glad they got busted, it s almost as bad when someone here trespasses on other deer hunters, we just got sick and tired  of hunters calling up complaining (well he was trespass hunting and you need to put a stop to it, i as always well you wanted to hunt so deal with it!! Finally we started renting  to family, we had people shoot at each other while hunting etc etc ...... All this stinking dramsa ?? I won't put up with it!! I senT  twinky out .of here on a rail, he still owes me money WHICH I WILL COLECT!! Point being if they want to deer hunt .... Well buy some property !! And stay the .! off of mine!! 

 

We have a 1/2 dozen family members who own interest in the land my great grandfather bought back almost 100 years ago.  We had the same issues here, to the degree that we finally instituted a "no hunting unless you are a family member or are directly accompanied by a family member".

 

It's ! a lot of people off over the years when I explain it to them and tell them I can't let them hunt, but back when I was a kid we had people destroying each other's stands and threatening each other, and wanting the family to intervene, and with that many family members involved it eventually dissolved into family infighting because everyone wanted "their guy" to be the one to win every argument.

 

Sucks but it is what it is.  We've had relative peace in the family since we instituted the "gotta be phsically with a family member to hunt" policy.

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Yup, samething here, it was about to drive me and pops crazy..... The kicker was Richard Whitley YES a good friend of mine, well he got drunk hunting one morning and he and twinky had a go at each other, i said ENOUGH your both gone, and this was land we had rented but said owner didn't want to get involed he was just about the rent $$$$ and  left us with the head ache, there's NO TELLING how many people wanted to hunt that place because the woods are so thic!! Not much light can get in, and some really big bucks traveled it very often, and it's very close to my place which has a ridge that stretches for miles,and is a known route that deer travil, heck if i wanted to i could hunt right outside my back door ......Wilson's cycles is also part of that ridge he gets his limit of deer each and every year which we used to eat on during cook outs when NASCAR was  all the rage.... Anyways, i allow NO HUNTING ORTRESPASSING of any kind, but the twist is only a few family members hunt, so, SO far no problems...... Plus there's always land to hunt on, my pops added a twist on his as well, if your family and you want to hunt, then your required to toss into the kitty for land taxes, i MIGHT just do that my dern self.  

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Wow , fun fact :  the guy that stuffed the fish with lead weights ,  would have won the $55,000 boat without the weights as it was a 9 pound fish  

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Never knew Indian made outboard motors , wonder if is the same Indian ?? 

 

 

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From what I gather so far , it is a 1930 Indian 2 stroke 

 

 

 

 

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On 10/5/2022 at 9:04 PM, Fishfiles said:

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well; at least it is in one spot,my stuff is stacked up, everywhere, in random order.

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They found this gar fish like this when the flood waters went down in Orange County Florida , guess you can call that galvanised gillnet 

 

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