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> Whenever I told friends of mine I was working on a story about cheating at bass fishing, they always asked the same thing: How in the world do you cheat at ba
by qup 3y ago
> Whenever I told friends of mine I was working on a story about cheating at bass fishing, they always asked the same thing: How in the world do you cheat at bass fishing? Let me count the ways, I’d tell them.
> By far, the most common way people cheat is to store a fish basket or pet taxi under a dock, filled with lunkers they’d caught before the event, and then retrieve the fish while they were supposed to be out fishing. A variation on this would be to attach a string to a stump in the water and hook various fish to the string. This way allows fishermen to retrieve the fish while faking that they actually caught them, just in case they were paired up in the boat with a competitor. There was the story that Ray Scott told me about a man who showed up for a tournament wearing a full-length raincoat even though there wasn’t a cloud in the sky — his partner later discovered the man had a string of bass draped around his neck. There was the guy in the U.K. who last year won a bass fishing tournament with a 13-pounder, only to have the second-place finisher recognize the giant bass from a recent trip he had taken to the local aquarium with his daughter. They called the aquarium and, sure enough, it was missing a big bass. People have been caught buying fish off of noncompetitors on the lake during an event, or sharing fish between colluding teams.
- kristjansson 3y ago> his partner later discovered the man had a string of bass draped around his neck Incredible. I guess you have to hope the other person catches early so they don’t notice the smell!
- ryandrake 3y agoThere was a video[1] going around about a year ago of some guys who cheated in a fishing tournament by stuffing weights inside their fish. Wild what people are willing to do! 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga3Rj9oaMWA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga3Rj9oaMWA
- acangiano 3y agoIn a recent scandal, salmon fillets wrapped around lead weights shoven down the fish's troats was also used to cheat.
- Severian 3y agoUnless it was something brand new, it was the Walleye species: https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2022/10/12/walleye-cheaters-charge-related-lake-erie-walleye-fishing-tournament-cheating/69558734007/ https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2022/10/12/walleye-... https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/crime/2023/05/11/lake-erie-walleye-fishing-tournament-scandal-two-men-sentenced-jail/70208820007/ https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/crime/2023/05/11/la...
- lupire 3y agoSo basically the same as how people do hackathons. :-)
- qup 3y agoZing! I've never attended one, but I can imagine it. > import antigravity