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Slippery tale: anglers accused of using weights and fish fillets to win top contest

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The county prosecutor’s office in Cleveland has opened an investigation into an apparent cheating scandal during a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie last week.
A video posted to Twitter shows Jason Fischer, tournament director for the Lake Erie Walleye Trail, cutting open the winning catch of five walleye on Friday and finding lead weights and prepared fish filets inside them.
The winning anglers, Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky – who were in line for a first prize of around $30,000 – were immediately disqualified. The video shows Fischer urging Runyan to leave the area for his own safety as people hurled expletives at him. Runyan and Cominsky had won three previous tournaments at the Lake Erie Walleye Trail this year.

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