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Walleye Fishing Tournament cheating scandal. (1 Viewer)

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Watched a video on this last night with the tournament director that cut open the fish. It’s crazy they have to sometimes take polygraph tests (just one of 3 other tests he mentioned) to collect some prizes. Craziness.
 
harrysallout said:
Watched a video on this last night with the tournament director that cut open the fish. It’s crazy they have to sometimes take polygraph tests (just one of 3 other tests he mentioned) to collect some prizes. Craziness.
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You fish alone/w your partner on massive lakes with no oversight.

They have also caught guys bringing fish to the tourney before in cages underwater. Then tourney day they go out to them.

Prizes double if you own the boat of the main sponsor. For example, Vexus tournaments prizes double if your using your Vexus boat.
 
justsomedude said:
Things happen in threes.

First it was Carlsen in chess.
Then it was Adelstein in poker.

And now, the great walleye fishing tournament cheating scandal is upon us!!!! I wonder if they use BTO. :wtf:

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Couldn't it be that she genuinely thought she had J3 and just misr... No, wait, wrong thread.
 
Schmendr1ck said:
I saw Cr1tiKaL talking about this yesterday. The cheating part doesn't blow my mind so much as the apparently super-lax procedures that allowed them to get away with it for years, especially at these kinds of stakes.
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It’s not super lax. They do polygraphs. Again it’s massive lakes…they may start to need to bring x rays machines I suppose….

15 years ago you fished against the other person in your boat…but it’s wildly more popular to fish with your teammate/partner.
 
doublebooyah85 said:
It’s not super lax. They do polygraphs. Again it’s massive lakes…they may start to need to bring x rays machines I suppose….

15 years ago you fished against the other person in your boat…but it’s wildly more popular to fish with your teammate/partner.
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Well, I'm speaking as a non-fisherman who has watched one fifteen minute video on the subject, so take that for what it's worth.

Still, it seems like when hundreds of thousands of dollars are at stake, there might be some sort of inspection process to make sure the fish haven't been stuffed with ten pounds of lead. A polygraph is just window dressing.
 
I love it that this topic made it to PCF. The fishing situation reminds me of how it is on here. Guys doing shady crap forever, but people are afraid to call them out because of all the bleeding hearts taking up for the criminals. It’s exactly how it goes with scammers on here. And then they continue to screw innocent victims because those that were once willing to share info get lambasted by naive do-gooders that have their head stuck in their as…sand.

I have researched a lot of information about these pieces of scum. Fishing is my favorite hobby, and it has a lot in common with poker in terms of successful participants. No matter how great of fishermen these cheats are, there’s absolutely no way they could put up the numbers they have continually done throughout time. It simply isn’t possible. The fact they were allowed to perpetuate this crap for so long is only explained because of people being too afraid to offend anyone in such a fragile society.
 
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DMack said:
I love it that this topic made it to PCF. The fishing situation reminds me of how it is on here. Guys doing shady crap forever, but people are afraid to call them out because of all the bleeding hearts taking up for the criminals. It’s exactly how it goes with scammers on here. And then they continue to screw innocent victims because those that were once willing to share info get lambasted by naive do-gooders that have their head stuck in their as…sand.

I have researched a lot of information about these pieces of scum. Fishing is my favorite hobby, and it has a lot in common with poker in terms of successful participants. Nobody how great of fishermen these cheats are, there’s absolutely no way they could put up the numbers they have continually done throughout time. It simply isn’t possible. The fact they were allowed to perpetuate this crap for so long is only explained because of people being too afraid to offend anyone in such a fragile society.
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Not necessarily true. They were disqualified from a tourney after failing a polygraph not too long ago. These guys came on the scene out of nowhere and suspicion was rampant. It’s hard to catch someone cheating no pun intended. Props to the anglers running the tourney for figuring it out.
 
I don't know nothing about nothing when it comes to this topic BUT it makes very little sense to me to NOT be checking/examining the fish immediately after weighing considering the amounts of $$$ involved (especially if they had, at some point, felt it necessary to add polygraphing to their events)! 'Yeah, we'll ask them if they cheated but there's no need to check their fish...' ??? SMH... (And here we go back to referencing Casino - "Listen, if you didn't know you were being scammed you're too fuckin' dumb to keep this job, if you did know, you were in on it.")
 
doublebooyah85 said:
Not necessarily true. They were disqualified from a tourney after failing a polygraph not too long ago. These guys came on the scene out of nowhere and suspicion was rampant. It’s hard to catch someone cheating no pun intended. Props to the anglers running the tourney for figuring it out.
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This issue could have been pushed much farther. These guys were scamming in every tournament. There were numerous anglers that were suspicious, but the tournament directors didn’t seem to REALLY want to discover what was going on.

Many of these tournaments donate the fish to food banks or charities. It has been said over 95% of the anglers donate their fish. Guess who were the anglers that didn’t donate theirs. Yep, the ones making hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars off their catch.
 
DMack said:
This issue could have been pushed much farther. These guys were scamming in every tournament. There were numerous anglers that were suspicious, but the tournament directors didn’t seem to REALLY want to discover what was going on.

Many of these tournaments donate the fish to food banks or charities. It has been said over 95% of the anglers donate their fish. Guess who were the anglers that didn’t donate theirs. Yep, the ones making hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars off their catch.
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It’s catch and release. The fish go back in the lakes after the weigh in. Pretty sure no one has put weights in fish before so this was new to them. I wouldn’t be so upset w the tournament directors lol
 
doublebooyah85 said:
It’s catch and release. The fish go back in the lakes after the weigh in. Pretty sure no one has put weights in fish before so this was new to them. I wouldn’t be so upset w the tournament directors lol
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C&R? This was a walleye tournament. I do believe some of these tournaments won’t even let you release after they’ve been in the well.
 
WedgeRock said:
You think the first time someone put weights in a fish in a tournament, they got caught?!

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Haha no, I just know of one other tournament in 15-20 years that another fisherman did this. So it’s not a common problem. Idk what we are argueing about. But blaming the tournament/people working the event seems out of line.
 
I think the point is that the same guys were suspected of cheating in previous tournaments and the directors did nothing.
 

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