Fishing tournament anglers caught cheating.

[Mai72]

These men were caught putting weights in the fish that they caught so the fish would weigh heavier. These guys had won hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past. They were also heavily sponsored, and had won a boat last year. They were escorted out by police. Looks like they will be giving back everything. Seems like their fishing careers are over.

**NSFW** There is cursing in the video. **NSFW**

 

[SKORPI0]

Well something was fishy about it form the getgo.

Fishermen team accused of stuffing fish with weights at tournament - Sports Illustrated

The duo was stripped of their winning title after a tournament official discovered the weights.

www.si.com

 

[BoomerD]

That kind of thing has happened as long as there have been fishing tournaments. In the 80's, i worked for a public utility that sponsored a bass fishing tourney. They caught a couple of guys who had stuck weights and rocks inside their fish to increase the weight. When you consider that all fish had to be alive at weigh in...and released back into the lake afterward...They were permabanned from the tourneys going forward.

 

[Mai72]

That kind of thing has happened as long as there have been fishing tournaments. In the 80's, i worked for a public utility that sponsored a bass fishing tourney. They caught a couple of guys who had stuck weights and rocks inside their fish to increase the weight. When you consider that all fish had to be alive at weigh in...and released back into the lake afterward...They were permabanned from the tourneys going forward.

Yea. Why isn't the fist weighed first, and then gutted so they can curb the cheeating. That should be mandatory.

 

[purbeast0]

Yea. Why isn't the fist weighed first, and then gutted so they can curb the cheeating. That should be mandatory.

Did you miss the part about the fish being released back into the lake afterwards?

Hard to gut a fish then release them back into the lake alive afterwards.

 

[Mai72]

Did you miss the part about the fish being released back into the lake afterwards?

Hard to gut a fish then release them back into the lake alive afterwards.

I was referring to current fising events. I should had said that first. Sorry.

 

[Captante]

Did you miss the part about the fish being released back into the lake afterwards?

Hard to gut a fish then release them back into the lake alive afterwards.

I'd guess the "releasing" part would actually be easier after the "gutting" was complete! (the "alive" part OTOH not so much!)

 

[MrSquished]

Is nothing sacred anymore

 

[Captante]

Is nothing sacred anymore

Bad news .... nothing ever actually was!

 

[Jon-T]

Did you miss the part about the fish being released back into the lake afterwards?

Hard to gut a fish then release them back into the lake alive afterwards.

After they cut them open they should have a sturgeon sew em up.

 

[kage69]

"Law enforcement escorted them off premises for their own safety"

I bet. Anglers take this stuff seriously, and these assholes had been talking shit while cheating apparently. They will be hounded about this for years, won't be surprised to hear if they pack and leave town. No one will want anything to do with them.

How does this still happen?

 

[BoomerD]

Yea. Why isn't the fist weighed first, and then gutted so they can curb the cheeating. That should be mandatory.

I mean...maybe the tourneys coud add a few $ thousands to their costs and have some kind of x-ray machine like they use in airports...throw the fish on the belt, scan them...if they pass, weigh and release ..

 

[Oyeve]

Aholes, they are lucky they didn't get fileted.

 

[brianmanahan]

Aholes, they are lucky they didn't get fileted.

or filleted?

i'm not sure what the difference is between a fillet and a filet

and at this point i'm too afraid to ask

 

[sactoking]

I've seen this story all over the various news sites and thought to myself, "Why the hell is fishing garnering such national attention?"

Then I remembered that I spent a night in a hotel this weekend and watched TV for the first time in a long time and while flipping channels ESPN had "paper airplane throwing" on as an event.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

^^^ Some people want to make a B'ass of themselves, just for the halibut.

There used to be a guy named Shel, but when pressed on why he was such a crab, he clammed up. He had a real croppy attitude.

 

[Fenixgoon]

or filleted?

i'm not sure what the difference is between a fillet and a filet

and at this point i'm too afraid to ask

A filet is a cut of fish.

A fillet is a radius joining two geometrical sections, usually at right angles to one another, in order to create a smooth transition between surfaces

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

So, what if you want to join two fish at right angles to create a smooth transition?

 

[purbeast0]

So, what if you want to join two fish at right angles to create a smooth transition?

That's called "you're trying too hard"

 

[BoomerD]

So, what if you want to join two fish at right angles to create a smooth transition?

That would be a filet of fillet...or a fillet filet.

 

[lxskllr]

Fillet-o-fish

 

[brianmanahan]

Fillet-o-fish

gimme that filet of fish

gimme that fish

 

[pmv]

What if they just fattened the fish up, by, say, feeding it smaller fish (or whatever it is they eat)?

or filleted?

i'm not sure what the difference is between a fillet and a filet

and at this point i'm too afraid to ask

I thought the latter sounded pretentiously French, and it seems so...

Filet vs. fillet

A fillet is any strip of boneless meat. <em>Filet</em> is mostly reserved for French cuisine, though Americans and Canadians in particular are loose with the distinction.

grammarist.com

Both filet and fillet mean a strip of boneless meat. Fillet is the more general term, however, while filet is usually reserved for French cuisine and in the names of French-derived dishes such as filet mignon. Dictionaries list filet as also an American variant of the more general fillet, and American writers are indeed inconsistent on the matter. Some use filet even in contexts unrelated to French cuisine, and some use fillet. The same is true of Canadian writers. Outside North America, fillet is much more heavily favored.

 

[Jon-T]

Things are collapsing for them

 

[brianmanahan]

while filet is usually reserved for French cuisine and in the names of French-derived dishes such as filet mignon

nothing says french cuisine like mcdonald's filet-o-fish