They stuffed their “winning fish” with weights

Fishermen caught stuffing their fish with weights during the Lake Erie Walleye Trail Fishing Tournament in Ohio. #fish #ohio #news

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00:00I want you to leave. I don't want anybody to touch these guys.

00:07In a dramatic turn of events at an Ohio fishing tournament, it was revealed that the winning

00:11group had allegedly stuffed their catches full of weights. They would have received

00:15almost $29,000 had they won. Jason Fisher, the director of this Ohio fishing tournament,

00:21told CNN that he was immediately suspicious when the fish weighed double what he expected

00:26them to. He said, quote, I physically felt the fish. I could feel hard objects inside

00:31the fish. As they pulled out weights, people continued to yell at the group that was caught

00:36cheating.