Fishing tournament cheaters busted - video

**Jon** · Oct 2, 2022, 03:34 PM

Cheating tournament fishermen exposed for putting lead balls and fish fillets into fish to increase their weight. These guys have won hundreds of thousands of dollars in fishing competitions. A little more colorful than the recent cheating scandal in chess (though bizarrely similar in its proposed method of cheating), this video includes about a year's worth of profanity condensed into just over two minutes. 2:11 video:

This NYT article has an interesting rundown of the different ways that competitive fisherman can cheat:

Cheating in competitive fishing is more common than many people think, Mr. Robertson said. He listed the myriad ways people do so: They have friends deliver pre-caught fish to them; they fish in prohibited areas; they put fish in cages before the competition; they stuff them with ice, adding heft during the weigh-in that melts and leaves no evidence.

"You have to consider that in some of these tournaments, ounces can mean tens, or hundreds, of thousands of dollars," he said.