Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky pleaded guilty to felony cheating this week, six months after officials found weights in fish they entered at a contest.
Fishermen Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky were disqualified from a fishing tournament in Cleveland on Sept. 30 after allegedly stuffing their fish with weights. Runyan, who lives in Ashtabula, Ohio, and Cominsky, of Hermitage, Pa., did not respond to requests for comment from The Washington Post. Runyan’s attorney, Gregory Gentile, also did not respond.
The convictions resulted from the Lake Erie Walleye Trail fishing tournament’s final contest in September, when about 65 two-person teams spent eight hours trying to pull five of the heaviest walleyes out of the Great Lake. Runyan and Cominsky, who made up one of the teams, appeared to have won the event in Cleveland, having entered five fish that weighed in just shy of 34 pounds.
But tournament director Jason Fischer told The Post last fall that he grew suspicious when Runyan and Cominsky’s entry topped 30 pounds. Looking at their catch, he had estimated the five fish weighed around 20 pounds.On a hunch, Fischer grabbed one of the fish and felt something hard in its stomach. He sliced open the dead walleye and discovered what he’d feared.
“Get out of here!” the tournament director yelled, throwing his hand in the air and using a curse word to punctuate the send-off.posted to the tournament’s Facebook page four days after the event, Fischer told viewers he was repulsed by what he discovered, describing it as one of the most “dishonest acts that the fishing world has ever seen in live time.
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