This tournament happened like 15 minutes away from where I live, every fisherman was to bring back six of their biggest fish and they went by total weight, pretty much everybody who brought their bags in weighed around 16 lb. Their bag weighed almost 33 lb for fish that looked almost identical to everybody else's. They only needed 16 lb to stay in the tournament but the way they cheated was so blatantly obvious to anybody who's ever participated
Like legitimately all they would have needed to do to stay in and possibly win the tournament was to put a single weight in two different fish and they would have been totally fine bringing an 18 lb that would have been an extremely commendable and believable number, these guys chose the nuclear option
Even though they clearly got caught, I'm obv not disputing that.. What does a lie detector have anything to do with it? Is that some weird/silly idea some organizer came up with as some kind of stipulation? Anyone with even cursory knowledge or as much as a glance at a Google search knows that lie detectors are notoriously unreliable, there's a reason why they aren't used in courts etc. If you're just a naturally anxious person, much like myself, every answer you give would read as a "lie", even the shit like giving your name, because all it does is measure your heart rate, and perspiration maybe? Idr, it's been awhile. All the measured things are things that are naturally elevated in someone who's nervous, in general, even when not guilty of anything and telling the truth, hence not being reliable. Not to mention, I guess it's a bit of a complicated process to even calibrate and set them up "correctly" at all to begin with. Tl;dr lie detectors are just riddled with problems, hence why they aren't actually used for anything "serious"
My dad used to be a professional fisherman, at one point he was fishing at the absolute top level of red fishing, and seeing this made me upset because I know people competing at this level have to put in months and months of pre-fishing, and it takes a huge amount of effort, so for someone to come in and just snatch that away illegitimately must be heartbreaking for the people fishing legit
@@reptiles02-bd3ep Yeah but then you'd lose. I don't get the concept of how "honing your abilities with something = you become better at that something" eludes you. On one hand, I understand that most fishing people encounter is a very straightforward, simply thing, and they may assume that's just all there is to it. But also I expect people to be able to realise that if someone is being done at a professional level, AND someone has just directly stated there's work involved in getting to this level... well, there's probably a bit more to it there than there would be in the average cases.
@chairmanwon there's actually quite a bit that goes into it. Different tournaments restrict how much you can go out on the water the tourney will be on (some have no restriction, or some have 2 practice days for example). the anglers will go out partly for simple practice, but also to mark/map spots, look at where baitfish are settling, and find out what baits and lures are effective in that location. All of this helps you make sure you're fishing the right spots with the right lures
@@trianglemoebius That kind of thing used to confuse me too. What you have to realize is that "people are idiots" is not just a meme. It's true. Most people are about as dumb as a rock stuffed into a fish, like Sparky here.
The conduct of those angry fishermen is commendable. They still maintained their decency and only expressed their anger in words, without attacking and physically harming the cheater that screwed them over and stole their money. Gave him the "I'm mad AND disappointed" treatment.
Yeah I thought that.. it was super crazy aggressive but without any actual physical assault or even breaking any laws (well technically thats not true, but no one including the cops will give a shit, considering the circumstances). Big respect to them!
@@chopupyourwife6193 So funny you mention that, I was literally just chatting with my grandfather for the better part of an hour about walleye fishing and decided to give it a shot. Can't wait. Loaded up my rods and picked up some leeches, headed out to the lake today to try and hook some. 👍
They ended up pleading guilty to cheating at the tournament and unlawful ownership of wild animals, receiving 10 days in jail, a 1.5-year probation after jail, a 3-year fishing license suspension, a $2500 fine (can be cut in half if they donate to an organization that focuses on fishing or children), and one of the cheaters had to surrender their boat. Some additional felonies were attempted grand theft and possessing criminal tools but they were dropped.
@@Jess_Egg That's not even close to enough punishment, If it's true that he's made 3 million over the years from cheating and 300 thousand in one year alone, then he's definitely thinking to himself that the 10 days in jail, 2500 dollar fine, plus a boat was totally worth it.
As much as I laugh at how angry they are, I also understand how they feel. I would assume that these are all honest folk that all know each other well, so to do this would be almost like scamming your friends.
@@merdoc81 and they all wake up at 3AM to get boats in by 5AM and spend 100s of dollars on rods and tackle they will eventually lose. It’s a whole deal to prepare and go to a tournament, I would be upset if I did this multiple times a year and only cheaters were winning.
Charlie sponsoring professional fishers would actually be so on brand. Like imagine rocking up to the lake or whatever with a big ol' Team Moist jacket.
As a fisherman and a poor man I'll tell ya the prizes are no joke. They're actually more than my annual income some times. Cash, boats, 4 wheelers, dort bikes, trailers, skidoo's seadoo's etc... all worth a lot of money
We flat out reward a million dollars for the heaviest marlin every year! Ocean City Md, summer if you're interested! Micheal Jordan and his team like to participate! Many ppl show up just to see a glimpse of him on the water!
From what I heard, they normally only added smaller weights to their fish to avoid an experienced fisherman from being able to eyeball the size of the fish vs its weight, but in this tournament the 2nd placers were really close and the cheaters went overboard with the weights to try to pull further ahead.
One of the event coordinators felt the fishes stomachs and could feel the weights, he then asked for a knife and cut them open to prove his suspicions. These guys have been on the radar as being cheaters for a while now, one co angler even failed a polygraph test and they got disqualified from a previous tournament. These guys have been watched for like two years now
for the record, the main prize here was 45k… this wasn’t just some small random competition, and the man in question has also been caught cheating before, so this was a long time coming. he’s made over 2.3 million in profit from these competitions over the past 10 years (such as sponsorships, physical awards like a boat and prize money), so who knows how long he’s been cheating.
The worst part is, they probably would have gotten away with it if they weren't so greedy. Anyone with any experience in fishing could look at those fish and tell the weigh-in was off. It's like someone would be handing you a regular-sized dog and claim it weighs 3 lbs.
I am surprised that he got away doing this for so long. Putting stuff in fish to manipulate weight is such a common sense cheat I am shocked that they had no work around this except trusting people with their integrity.
The problem is so many people looked up to him and his team.. he had the largest sponsors and won the most money. Sad to see that happen and it’s something seen many times in the past
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I think I’m most surprised that it didn’t get physical. Those fishermen seemed very dignified with how they only expressed their anger verbally. If this had been a video game cheating scandal, it would’ve not only involved a lot more slurs, but also physical aggression amongst two land whales
Excerpt from Reddit: "As a competitor in a very low stakes annual fishing tournament, the full length video is absolutely enthralling. The first 14 minutes or so are outwardly boring, because each team is coming up to weight their 5biggest fish and the weights are in the teens, low twenties. Then, with the leader at 23lbs. Or so, these mavericks roll in with 5 fish weighing over 33lbs. Outweighing the leader by an average of 2lbs per fish, which is pretty unbelievable in any circumstance. The crowd is talking amongst themselves and there's a bit of disbelief, but no hullabaloo. Then they take their winning fish, hold them up for photos and the rest of the teams to see and any experienced fisherman knows roughly the weight of any given fish and you can hear the cognitive dissonance in the crowd. Then the 'winners' start to take their fish and leave when the judge/official calls them back over and chats with the guy in the video for a minute. It looks like the official presses him a bit. Like gives him the chance to come clean or withdraw from the tournament. Maybe he's testing him. You can tell by the body language that something is up and the crowd starts to murmur from a distance away. The official grabs a knife from his assistant and a fish and drops it on the ground and slices it open. Digs his hands inside, then holds it up like a beating heart in the temple of doom and yells "WE HAVE WEIGHTS IN FISH!!!" The crowd erupts and surges forward and this video begins. These guys have swindled anywhere from $300k to millions of prizes including a brand new boat"
That dude desperately screaming “call the cops!” Had me rolling lmfao. Imagine being the police officer called out to a giant crowd of screaming fishermen 😂
At the scrap yard I used to work at, couldn't count how many people would put dirt in soda cans and crush them so it seals, trying to hide the fact they have 7 bags full of crushed soda cans weighing a pound per can
As a Southerner I can confirm that "Don't cheat in fishing" is one of our 10 commandments, alongside "Raise Hell, Praise Dale." Edit: For those confused, Praise Dale is in reference to Dale Earnhardt, arguably the most famous/influential NASCAR driver to ever touch the track who tragically died on track.
As a competitive angler, it’s absolutely hilarious to me that it’s gotten this big. The way they caught the dudes was that people were extremely skeptical of their cumulative weight in comparison to the size of fish. It was 8lbs of additional weight added on top
I was the son of a pro fisher on Lake Lanier. There were all sorts of ways you could cheat but this one I’ve heard of but never seen someone actually get caught doing it. I honestly feel bad for the other fishermen because some of these guys have pride in what they do and spend hours from 4am to 4pm in all weathers battling the elements to catch a spot or largemouth or whatever you fishing for that’s just a few ounces heavier than your smallest of your five.
My thing with cheaters is they never know when to quit. Dudes had won all that money and were getting away with it, but still kept risking it. It becomes an addiction to them until they get caught
My brother is a huge fan of fishing and has been on a few tournaments himself. When I've told him about this cheating action, he told me about one he's seen himself. The tournament he's been in was giving points based on the length of the fish, so that dude was stomping his fish to gain extra 2-3 cm. Dude almost got 3rd place if it wasn't for the fact that someone pointed that out. Dude got disqualified and banned from further tournaments. Edit: ok, i see a lot of people asking how did that cheater manage to stomp fish without leaving any marks, so there are 2 factors here. 1. This was a sea fishing tournament and they were catching flounders, which tend to have a damaged skin and are quite flat to begin with. I guess it wasn't too difficult to blame any stomp marks on that 2. Dude wasn't stomping them directly with his foot and instead was putting a board of some kind on them to even out the force through out the entire length.
My old neighbor was a pro bass fisherman and it’s crazy how much money there is in it. He won a decent amount from tournaments but absolutely balled out from sponsorships
Yeah for real, my neighbour was pro or semi pro, I know he won a few tournies made some good money off it back in the day, won a boat and a truck and sold them for a better boat and truck, later retired doing bait showings for bass pro and stuff. Definitely good money in it if you can make a name even somewhat locally.
I’m an avid ocean fisherman and whenever I go on a public charter it’s always a joke to add weight to your fish to try winning the jackpot, but this is the first time I’ve seen it in a major tournament
I know this is a year late, but it popped up now for some reason. Thing is, cheaters are careful at first, but they get cocky over time. I would imagine this dude started out by stuffing the fish with just one or two weights, so it wasn't all that easy to eye-ball. After a while, though, he probably started adding more weights to each fish, and it became more and more apparent. Couple that with the fact that this guy somehow keeps winning year after year, some people probably started whispering behind his back, saying things like "This season we need to come up with a reason to check his fish, because something isn't right."
As someone who fishes a lot it’s not hard to eyeball the weight of a species if you catch it a lot. I fish for carp a lot and I can usually guess the weight of the fish by less than half a pound, and those weights were most likely over a pound each, I would have guessed something suspicious is going on as well. Plus you could probably feel them in the fishes stomach as well.
That's how the tournament director knew something wasn't right and decided to check the fish because he's been officiating walleye tournaments for so long he can guess within a pretty close accuracy of what a fish weighs just by looking at them and their total weight was way over to raise suspicion.
@@johndough5854 I guess I don't follow what you mean exactly. I'm just saying I watched a interview the tournament director gave and that's what he said. There was about a 4 pound average for that area of the lake and these 2 guys 5 fish would had to of weighed like over 6.5 pounds a piece to equal the 33 plus pounds and the guys in the crowed were also questioning that weight so he decided to examine their fish and apparently his hunch was correct.
My dad used to do fishing tournaments, he told me about some incidents of cheating. People have tried all kinds of stuff, from having their live well pre-stocked with fish, to people having some bass on a line in a specific part of the lake and retrieving them mid-tournament.
My cousin did as well only not on a professional lvl, i think he said it was "fish swapping" at the competitions he used to go to. He doesnt do them anymore, but he is still an avid fisherman.
I remember going to a salmon tournament and somebody cheated By bringing back a giant Alaska salmon They could tell because when they cut it open some of the insides were still frozen
Some years back there was a specimen fishing tournament in my home island, the focus was sea bass. Anyhow, a guy broke into our aquarium overnight, got the largest one there and entered it and then won. Then they realised that was the exact fish that went missing, idk about authenticity but I've heard it still had the tag on it. Worthy of front press news back home lmao
Wait, he broke into an actual aquarium??? The fish zoo place??? Where you have alive fish for children to stare at and stuff??? Then he somehow managed to get into the sea bass exhibit, find the largest one, and escape????? I need to know more. Edit: OH MY GOD ITS REAL The guy was apparently an ex-employee of the aquarium, which explains at least some of it.
WOW. The amount of work people would put into cheating and winning is baffling. This dude literally had to plan so much in order to just cheat in a competition. That poor Sea bass too…
As someone who’s been fishing for close to 2 decades, in local, group, and state tournaments, this is far too common in the fishing community. Love to see you look further into this Charlie. Tight lines 🤙🏻
@@Kumquat_Lord The fish is already dead, they should (I thought they did since like the 70s) cut every fish open. Pretty sure the meat is donated to local shelters, they should just have a guy check/filet every fish that's entered. You saw the video, takes 2 seconds to slice its stomach open and look.
I really shouldn’t be surprised that cheating is possible and the tactics are very variant in every sport but I truly am. Thank you so much Charlie for this video.
Im not even into fishing but guys like this (that aren't the cheater) pour a lot of money and time into what they do and have years and years of skill and are passionate about it. They get that even the best fisherman isn't going to catch the weightiest fish all the time and constantly win. The full 20 minute video is really interesting where they show the live weigh ins and the crowd reaction.
As a 3rd generation fisherman, you absolutely nailed why we fish. Dolphins and whales took it even further and evolved to go back in the water permanently to style on these damn fish. Also, te weights aren't the smartest. Fish aren't supposed to die in these tournaments, and even a lot of casual fishermen can fairly accurately judge a largemouth's weight by sight alone. Of course you're going to be off a bit here and there, but if a fish is half a pound or more heavier than average, pros will take notice.
"How could they get away with it," I think you got it in your previous sentence. I mean besides it being so egregious this time that the weights fell out, there's this thing called escalation. Liars tend to get more grandiose with time, so he probably STARTED small like you said... and got worse every time he got away with it until now.
I think he was reading commentary about a different tournament with the "weights fell out of their mouth." In the specific instance covered here, they brought a bag of fish that looked similar to everyone else's, the average weight of the bags was 16 pounds, but their bag weighed 33 pounds, which prompted further investigation. I got the exact weights from another comment, but the coverage read explained how they were caught. To clarify, they had to open up this guys fish to find the proof, the weights didn't fall out. Hope that made sense, lol.
@@Magna_Carta5 I mentioned that. BUT he was also wondering why there were allegations this was continuous behavior and whether that was possible. I'm saying it was, if his behavior had escalated to this point, rather than starting at this level of cheating.
As someone who is an amateur fisherman I sometimes catch the pro fishing tour on tv occasionally but I don't really follow it, but oh my god this was absolutely absurd to hear I can't believe someone would actually do something like this and not expect to get caught
As a fisherman. I'm glad you brought this to light! On a good note I just moved very south and caught a alligator snapper. That almost 80ish pounds and uI scared asf to grab that dinosaur. It could have easily broke my arm or anything and being the first time ever. I landed it on the bank after and was just happy as hell I did that. Just some young man from Illinois can pulll one of them out of the swamp with his Illinois rig! I was taught how to fish right ! 👌🥰🙏
My dad owned a boat dealership and sports shop back in the 90s. His companies hosted fishing tournaments where the grand prize was a new bass boat. The winners would have to pass a polygraph test afterward. Tying out fish has been a cheating tactic used in the past. But this was some bold shit right here!
As a lifelong Clevelander there is an unspoken rule to NOT mess with Fishermen let alone the tournaments. This is one of the largest fishing events (if not thee largest) in the Midwest and as you can see these other Fishermen are PISSED off. I am absolutely certain this entire scenario could have been 100x worse and the fact these guys got away with no physical altercation is insane (I am not advocating for violence but trust me you do not mess with Erie Fishers)
My dad did this for me for an ice fishing tournament because my mom was super toxic and I never won a trophy, never did sports, was really just trying to survive my childhood, my dad got custody and I won my first and only trophy no cash or anything and he didn’t tell me till I was an adult. I cherished that trophy and tho cheating is wrong I can’t thank him enough. I’ll never forget it, it made me feel like I was a winner. So silly 😂❤️
its sad that you think a trophy is what makes a childhood lmaooooooo life is about having fun. that "woah is me" attitude is what will always make one a loser.
Yeah obviously cheating is no good but since it was just a simple (but precious) trophy it was harmless. It'd be different if it was money. Great father award 😄
I used to be really into fishing, I was in a competition when I was about eight. And the fish I caught was huge, but turns out there was a man with his son there who also caught a fish very close to the size of mine. I swear mine was slightly bigger (pause) but they won the prize instead of me. Which was a lifetime supply of fishing gear, and my prize for second place was keeping the tournament shirt I was already wearing, and that everyone else already had.
Wow if I was in those contests I’d be furious. He stole a ton of money from everyone involved, and they’ll probably never be able to get that money back
Regarding on how they would guess to check the bass. The bass in this professional tournament are weighing in 10-30 pounds sometimes. This guy seemed to be stuffing as much as he could in the fish so once you picked up the bass by the jaw you it was probably like picking up a small dumbbell. Or the metal weights hit against each other and made noise or he didn’t hide the weights well enough.
Man now i wanna be a fisherman that community seems so tight like their not even hating their more surprised and upset he was cheating they truly had respected him being the champ thats love
Oh boy, I can't wait for the next obscure cheating scandal, that I'll learn about from Charlie. It's probably going to be from the competitive paper plane throwing league or something like that.
@@loversandlosers Nah, he finds interesting stuff, but about 90 percent of it doesn't concern me enough for me to try and look for it myself. I mostly just enjoy his commentary, I don't watch him for news.
What Charlie didn’t mention is that not only did they beat the previous record by almost 10lbs, they more than doubled the weight of the second place team. They weighed in something like 34lbs while second place was 16 and change
I am so glad that he made a video about this. Thanks for showing everyone that these cheaters are going too get caught no matter what! THEY HAVE TO PAY IT BACK!!!
Oooo. This happened in my neck of the woods. I didn’t hear about it until now. Pretty interesting, and honestly not surprising, but sad at the same time.
Bruh Charlie either reviewing YT, Reddit or watching shittty content on Twitch and getting million views, how lame is this dude why is he still relevant?
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Living in Wisconsin, people cheat constantly at local ice fishing tourneys. You know what are prettymuch identical? A frozen fish you caught half an hour ago and a frozen fish you caught a week ago at a different lake/river
Fishermen are definitely overlooked on their place in society. They always supply the freshest fish. They deserve more praise for their hard work. I’m not talking about sport fishermen (although they are somewhat important)
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i seen the longer lead up video of them saying he won and then them going back to review the fish. it was about two minutes of that before it got to that point. It was on TikTok when i saw it
I bet the detective saying “there’s something fishy going on” to his colleagues got a good laugh
-_- bots
Ratio lol
must be a fishing scam...
Finally my username is put to good use
Damn Skynet only needed military hardware just to do terminator
This tournament happened like 15 minutes away from where I live, every fisherman was to bring back six of their biggest fish and they went by total weight, pretty much everybody who brought their bags in weighed around 16 lb. Their bag weighed almost 33 lb for fish that looked almost identical to everybody else's. They only needed 16 lb to stay in the tournament but the way they cheated was so blatantly obvious to anybody who's ever participated
Like legitimately all they would have needed to do to stay in and possibly win the tournament was to put a single weight in two different fish and they would have been totally fine bringing an 18 lb that would have been an extremely commendable and believable number, these guys chose the nuclear option
that's some todd rogers level shit
If this is how they've always done it, then how have the not been caught before?
Is killing people who make Bot accounts with such disgusting messages a crime? Because I feel that it shouldn't be.
@@mage1439 they’ve prob bumped up the weight gradually, and eventually just said fuck it and shoved a lot of weights in there
"How many times you done this?!" is a really good question. Getting caught once doesn't mean you cheated once. He's likely been cheating a while
Even though they clearly got caught, I'm obv not disputing that.. What does a lie detector have anything to do with it? Is that some weird/silly idea some organizer came up with as some kind of stipulation?
Anyone with even cursory knowledge or as much as a glance at a Google search knows that lie detectors are notoriously unreliable, there's a reason why they aren't used in courts etc.
If you're just a naturally anxious person, much like myself, every answer you give would read as a "lie", even the shit like giving your name, because all it does is measure your heart rate, and perspiration maybe? Idr, it's been awhile. All the measured things are things that are naturally elevated in someone who's nervous, in general, even when not guilty of anything and telling the truth, hence not being reliable.
Not to mention, I guess it's a bit of a complicated process to even calibrate and set them up "correctly" at all to begin with. Tl;dr lie detectors are just riddled with problems, hence why they aren't actually used for anything "serious"
@@mr.clownspy3677 wait they give you lie detector tests to recieve winnings? Or was it because it was sus?
Getting caught once also doesn't mean he's cheated more than once.
They said he got 300k from multiple tournaments so yeah
@@josephatkinson6280 True, but the odds of cheating and getting caught the very first time is extremely unlikely.
My dad used to be a professional fisherman, at one point he was fishing at the absolute top level of red fishing, and seeing this made me upset because I know people competing at this level have to put in months and months of pre-fishing, and it takes a huge amount of effort, so for someone to come in and just snatch that away illegitimately must be heartbreaking for the people fishing legit
@@reptiles02-bd3ep Yeah but then you'd lose. I don't get the concept of how "honing your abilities with something = you become better at that something" eludes you.
On one hand, I understand that most fishing people encounter is a very straightforward, simply thing, and they may assume that's just all there is to it. But also I expect people to be able to realise that if someone is being done at a professional level, AND someone has just directly stated there's work involved in getting to this level... well, there's probably a bit more to it there than there would be in the average cases.
@chairmanwon there's actually quite a bit that goes into it. Different tournaments restrict how much you can go out on the water the tourney will be on (some have no restriction, or some have 2 practice days for example). the anglers will go out partly for simple practice, but also to mark/map spots, look at where baitfish are settling, and find out what baits and lures are effective in that location. All of this helps you make sure you're fishing the right spots with the right lures
@@trianglemoebius That kind of thing used to confuse me too. What you have to realize is that "people are idiots" is not just a meme. It's true. Most people are about as dumb as a rock stuffed into a fish, like Sparky here.
@@reptiles02-bd3ep *knows nothing about fishing*
“yOu cOulD jUsT dO iT in oNe DaY”
@@boogieheads at the end of the day it all depends on which fish bites your line
The conduct of those angry fishermen is commendable. They still maintained their decency and only expressed their anger in words, without attacking and physically harming the cheater that screwed them over and stole their money.
Gave him the "I'm mad AND disappointed" treatment.
Yeah I thought that.. it was super crazy aggressive but without any actual physical assault or even breaking any laws (well technically thats not true, but no one including the cops will give a shit, considering the circumstances).
Big respect to them!
But BLM told me that there's just as much violent crime in white neighborhoods, black 'hoods are just over-policed.
I kinda feel like if there wasn’t so many eyes they definitely would of gave him some mob justice😂
@@solosolo8610 yep 100% less witnesses he would be ironically fish bait lol
If they swung at the guy they may lose there sponsorships and boats so not worth the thrown punch.
As an avid bass fisherman myself, I truly appreciate your acknowledgment of this scandal. Thank you, Charlie.
He should've said "there are few things" at the start.
yeah bro i love animal crossing too i love fishing for bass
Gotta start chasing the walleyes. Great fight and great meat
Charlie should take the boys offshore fishing. Just to show them how it's done.
@@chopupyourwife6193 So funny you mention that, I was literally just chatting with my grandfather for the better part of an hour about walleye fishing and decided to give it a shot. Can't wait. Loaded up my rods and picked up some leeches, headed out to the lake today to try and hook some. 👍
The cheater actually got charged with multiple felonies as well. This is a lot more serious than people think "oh it's just a fishing tournament".
They ended up pleading guilty to cheating at the tournament and unlawful ownership of wild animals, receiving 10 days in jail, a 1.5-year probation after jail, a 3-year fishing license suspension, a $2500 fine (can be cut in half if they donate to an organization that focuses on fishing or children), and one of the cheaters had to surrender their boat. Some additional felonies were attempted grand theft and possessing criminal tools but they were dropped.
@@Jess_Egg possessing criminal tools or being criminal tools?
@@Jess_Egg That's not even close to enough punishment, If it's true that he's made 3 million over the years from cheating and 300 thousand in one year alone, then he's definitely thinking to himself that the 10 days in jail, 2500 dollar fine, plus a boat was totally worth it.
As much as I laugh at how angry they are, I also understand how they feel. I would assume that these are all honest folk that all know each other well, so to do this would be almost like scamming your friends.
The cheater's winnings total to about I think at least half a million dollars over their careers.
That and you have to pay hundreds of dollars to enter just to have no chance of winning.
I mean I wouldn't laugh, that's a lot of money to be stolen from you. Life changing amounts of money.
Well considering everyone that entered the tournament probably had to fork over a pretty large entry fee.
@@merdoc81 and they all wake up at 3AM to get boats in by 5AM and spend 100s of dollars on rods and tackle they will eventually lose. It’s a whole deal to prepare and go to a tournament, I would be upset if I did this multiple times a year and only cheaters were winning.
Charlie sponsoring professional fishers would actually be so on brand. Like imagine rocking up to the lake or whatever with a big ol' Team Moist jacket.
Seriously tho would be the perfect fit
I second that 👍🏾
I want this to happen
Suddenly I want to put my all into fishing
Moist Fishing
It’s too perfect
As a fisherman and a poor man I'll tell ya the prizes are no joke. They're actually more than my annual income some times. Cash, boats, 4 wheelers, dort bikes, trailers, skidoo's seadoo's etc... all worth a lot of money
DONT READ MY NAMES!😑....
We flat out reward a million dollars for the heaviest marlin every year! Ocean City Md, summer if you're interested! Micheal Jordan and his team like to participate! Many ppl show up just to see a glimpse of him on the water!
than who
@@Chocolate6mac8 that's pretty nuts, i've never heard of a fishing tournament prize that large.
dort bikes
:)
From what I heard, they normally only added smaller weights to their fish to avoid an experienced fisherman from being able to eyeball the size of the fish vs its weight, but in this tournament the 2nd placers were really close and the cheaters went overboard with the weights to try to pull further ahead.
Would’ve been smart to lose some tournaments very closely
One of the event coordinators felt the fishes stomachs and could feel the weights, he then asked for a knife and cut them open to prove his suspicions. These guys have been on the radar as being cheaters for a while now, one co angler even failed a polygraph test and they got disqualified from a previous tournament. These guys have been watched for like two years now
*fails polygraph*
“Alright now that everyone is suspicious, let’s keep cheating.”
Do they do polygraphs for fishing?
@@ashdog9235 They do, pretty sure they've passed before, not entirely sure
polygraphs lmfao
imagine you came second to this guy in previous tournaments and just find out he was cheating all along. thats gotta suck big time.
Cries in Clayton Kershaw
I mean that could be a couple thousands of dollars that you missed out on. I'd be pissed.
$300,000 in one year and $3,000,000 total.
hopefully the runner ups can get their due prize from him
Ignoring the prize money, the sponsor attention they have cheated others out of is a career making factor.
for the record, the main prize here was 45k…
this wasn’t just some small random competition, and the man in question has also been caught cheating before, so this was a long time coming. he’s made over 2.3 million in profit from these competitions over the past 10 years (such as sponsorships, physical awards like a boat and prize money), so who knows how long he’s been cheating.
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The worst part is, they probably would have gotten away with it if they weren't so greedy. Anyone with any experience in fishing could look at those fish and tell the weigh-in was off. It's like someone would be handing you a regular-sized dog and claim it weighs 3 lbs.
I am surprised that he got away doing this for so long. Putting stuff in fish to manipulate weight is such a common sense cheat I am shocked that they had no work around this except trusting people with their integrity.
@@theguywhoasked1483 Yeah it was two guys who were in on it.
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Those were just lead eggs of a new generation of fish.
The problem is so many people looked up to him and his team.. he had the largest sponsors and won the most money. Sad to see that happen and it’s something seen many times in the past
Charlie revealing the biggest scandals in the weirdest sub-genres of human activities and I am all here for it
Edit: don't call fishing weird. noted.
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Fishing isn't a "weird sub-genre" of human activity. It's been a major way of life since the dawn of humanity.
Imagine if there was a cheating scandal in professional slapping, Charlie might lose it for real.
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I think I’m most surprised that it didn’t get physical. Those fishermen seemed very dignified with how they only expressed their anger verbally. If this had been a video game cheating scandal, it would’ve not only involved a lot more slurs, but also physical aggression amongst two land whales
As a rule, fisherman run their mouths but don’t do shit. It’s science.
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After all the stereotypes about how tough sailors are, you'd assume fishermen are similar.
"I thought it would be more fun to uncover the truth together"
Aw, Charlie is so sweet lmao.
he knows it's all about the friends u make along the way :D
Excerpt from Reddit:
"As a competitor in a very low stakes annual fishing tournament, the full length video is absolutely enthralling. The first 14 minutes or so are outwardly boring, because each team is coming up to weight their 5biggest fish and the weights are in the teens, low twenties. Then, with the leader at 23lbs. Or so, these mavericks roll in with 5 fish weighing over 33lbs. Outweighing the leader by an average of 2lbs per fish, which is pretty unbelievable in any circumstance.
The crowd is talking amongst themselves and there's a bit of disbelief, but no hullabaloo.
Then they take their winning fish, hold them up for photos and the rest of the teams to see and any experienced fisherman knows roughly the weight of any given fish and you can hear the cognitive dissonance in the crowd.
Then the 'winners' start to take their fish and leave when the judge/official calls them back over and chats with the guy in the video for a minute.
It looks like the official presses him a bit. Like gives him the chance to come clean or withdraw from the tournament. Maybe he's testing him.
You can tell by the body language that something is up and the crowd starts to murmur from a distance away.
The official grabs a knife from his assistant and a fish and drops it on the ground and slices it open.
Digs his hands inside, then holds it up like a beating heart in the temple of doom and yells "WE HAVE WEIGHTS IN FISH!!!"
The crowd erupts and surges forward and this video begins.
These guys have swindled anywhere from $300k to millions of prizes including a brand new boat"
Holy fuck
This comment was unironically so intense omg.
Damn
"Like a beating heart in the temple of doom" is such an evocative image 😂
Biiiiitttccchhhhh that official better get so much props for calling this out
Every day it seems we get a new “biggest _____ cheating scandal ever” from Charlie and I’m here for all of them
There’s always a bigger scandal
@@brenolk4642 😂
That dude desperately screaming “call the cops!” Had me rolling lmfao. Imagine being the police officer called out to a giant crowd of screaming fishermen 😂
Yeah like wtf the cops going to do lol 😂
@@V1CT0RY they arrested him. He’s being charged. That’s what they’re gonna do.
@@iWork3d
It’s not illegal to cheat.
Police officers do not have the right to do that. If there was a fight then yes.
@@Aaron-kp6kp It’s attempted theft; nice try - but cash prizes are something that can you can be prosecuted for tampering with.
@@iWork3d
Ohh you’re talking about the cash prize and not the cheating. If you read my message, it was assumed about the cheating of the contest.
At the scrap yard I used to work at, couldn't count how many people would put dirt in soda cans and crush them so it seals, trying to hide the fact they have 7 bags full of crushed soda cans weighing a pound per can
As a Southerner I can confirm that "Don't cheat in fishing" is one of our 10 commandments, alongside "Raise Hell, Praise Dale."
Edit: For those confused, Praise Dale is in reference to Dale Earnhardt, arguably the most famous/influential NASCAR driver to ever touch the track who tragically died on track.
The other fishing one is "don't try to find that Christmas tree I sunk"
A real fisherman would be angry at the wasted filets. Those fish all looked good.
I fucking love that lmao. Dale Earnhardt was the GOAT
@MelloYellow308 .....there was a colored dude there though.
That's the thing with fishermen: their eyes are always, ALWAYS on the fish
@@lxi.. exactly. That’s how it is up North as well. You only see the fish.
As a competitive angler, it’s absolutely hilarious to me that it’s gotten this big. The way they caught the dudes was that people were extremely skeptical of their cumulative weight in comparison to the size of fish. It was 8lbs of additional weight added on top
Apparently he would've won anyway. That's the dumbest part.
@@marvincool3744 wait no way🤣
@@marvincool3744 yup, funniest part was their fish would’ve won w/o all the weights😂
5:00 watching him just stand there and be shamed by the crowd is so satisfying and hilarious
I was the son of a pro fisher on Lake Lanier. There were all sorts of ways you could cheat but this one I’ve heard of but never seen someone actually get caught doing it. I honestly feel bad for the other fishermen because some of these guys have pride in what they do and spend hours from 4am to 4pm in all weathers battling the elements to catch a spot or largemouth or whatever you fishing for that’s just a few ounces heavier than your smallest of your five.
The raw emotion in their voices, shaken to the core
@Mason tf are you talking about
@Mason Who even are you
@@MimicksVibe They put the bot on the wrong channel lmao!
There's been like, 50 different cheating scandals and I think it's hilarious that Charlie just makes a whole genre out of it.
I’m better than penguinz0 😊
Who summoned all the bots here?
@@staticshockfan looks like they find the more liked comments but no one can be better than Charlie
There's also a poker cheating scandal charlie might be making a video on soon
My thing with cheaters is they never know when to quit. Dudes had won all that money and were getting away with it, but still kept risking it. It becomes an addiction to them until they get caught
The guys in the background sound like the "they took our jobs" guys from southpark 🤣
YES. That one guy needs to calm the f down, haha.
My brother is a huge fan of fishing and has been on a few tournaments himself. When I've told him about this cheating action, he told me about one he's seen himself.
The tournament he's been in was giving points based on the length of the fish, so that dude was stomping his fish to gain extra 2-3 cm. Dude almost got 3rd place if it wasn't for the fact that someone pointed that out. Dude got disqualified and banned from further tournaments.
Edit: ok, i see a lot of people asking how did that cheater manage to stomp fish without leaving any marks, so there are 2 factors here.
1. This was a sea fishing tournament and they were catching flounders, which tend to have a damaged skin and are quite flat to begin with. I guess it wasn't too difficult to blame any stomp marks on that
2. Dude wasn't stomping them directly with his foot and instead was putting a board of some kind on them to even out the force through out the entire length.
Dang that’s so shady.
No one noticed that the culprit's submissions were suspiciously flat?
Those were actually rare pancake fish
You know what? *stomps your fish*
@@drewgoin8849 yeah, like no shoe imprints or pattern?
Gotta respect the dedication. Man spent an amount of time in his life that isn't zero minutes, stuffing lead into a fishes orifices.
Ratio.
@@imbetterlol1670 not me, get ratio'd
These replies are getting worse :(
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As a fish, I thank you for bringing attention to this.
As the bait, thank you for swallowing the truth
lmao
The depth of your coverage in this topic compared to other TH-camrs is astounding, keep it up
My old neighbor was a pro bass fisherman and it’s crazy how much money there is in it. He won a decent amount from tournaments but absolutely balled out from sponsorships
Yeah for real, my neighbour was pro or semi pro, I know he won a few tournies made some good money off it back in the day, won a boat and a truck and sold them for a better boat and truck, later retired doing bait showings for bass pro and stuff. Definitely good money in it if you can make a name even somewhat locally.
@@joshuafurlong5270 calling someone a pro fisherman has to be a joke it's fishing anyone can do it.
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@@ryanclemons1 Than do it and make some money
@@ryanclemons1 anyone can play basketball and not everybody has a $500M 5 year contract? ☠️☠️☠️
The fact that everybody’s so invested in what’s often irrelevant and less mainstream drama is just so heartwarming to me as a human being
@@imbetterlol1670 But of course they are. Even more than mrbeast's.
It's fishing, we have to be invested. Muddying the sacred name of the divine support is nothing short of sacrilege.
@@Baronnax human civilization was built upon fishing, it's built into our DNA
@@afroize you're kinda spittin right now
I’m an avid ocean fisherman and whenever I go on a public charter it’s always a joke to add weight to your fish to try winning the jackpot, but this is the first time I’ve seen it in a major tournament
I know this is a year late, but it popped up now for some reason.
Thing is, cheaters are careful at first, but they get cocky over time.
I would imagine this dude started out by stuffing the fish with just one or two weights, so it wasn't all that easy to eye-ball. After a while, though, he probably started adding more weights to each fish, and it became more and more apparent.
Couple that with the fact that this guy somehow keeps winning year after year, some people probably started whispering behind his back, saying things like "This season we need to come up with a reason to check his fish, because something isn't right."
As someone who fishes a lot it’s not hard to eyeball the weight of a species if you catch it a lot. I fish for carp a lot and I can usually guess the weight of the fish by less than half a pound, and those weights were most likely over a pound each, I would have guessed something suspicious is going on as well. Plus you could probably feel them in the fishes stomach as well.
I would think lead weights of that size would definitely make the fish feel very heavy in one spot that would be easy to notice upon handling
Yeah exactly, you would know something is up for sure
That's how the tournament director knew something wasn't right and decided to check the fish because he's been officiating walleye tournaments for so long he can guess within a pretty close accuracy of what a fish weighs just by looking at them and their total weight was way over to raise suspicion.
@@merdoc81 "so you're saying your fish looks just like mine but it's 10lbs heavier?" One of them guys....... probably
@@johndough5854 I guess I don't follow what you mean exactly. I'm just saying I watched a interview the tournament director gave and that's what he said. There was about a 4 pound average for that area of the lake and these 2 guys 5 fish would had to of weighed like over 6.5 pounds a piece to equal the 33 plus pounds and the guys in the crowed were also questioning that weight so he decided to examine their fish and apparently his hunch was correct.
My favorite part is how tense the environment got without punches being thrown(Shows these are grown men with control) , Hopefully he never forgets.
my first thought was to give props to the rest of the dudes at the tournament. pretty good restraint
These cheating scandal stories need to become a series! They’re too good
Wouldn't expect you to cover this scandal. great video dawg 🔥
Massive respect for the officials over there doing their job! This is how cheating should be dealt with in every facet of society.
Bots going wild today
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My dad used to do fishing tournaments, he told me about some incidents of cheating. People have tried all kinds of stuff, from having their live well pre-stocked with fish, to people having some bass on a line in a specific part of the lake and retrieving them mid-tournament.
My cousin did as well only not on a professional lvl, i think he said it was "fish swapping" at the competitions he used to go to. He doesnt do them anymore, but he is still an avid fisherman.
it gets crazy some people have no idea
I remember going to a salmon tournament and somebody cheated By bringing back a giant Alaska salmon They could tell because when they cut it open some of the insides were still frozen
I respect how he can talk to his chat knowing it’s probably moving at 30 new messages a second lmao
I saw the og clip on twitter yesterday and was immediately like “i can’t wait for his video on this”
Some years back there was a specimen fishing tournament in my home island, the focus was sea bass. Anyhow, a guy broke into our aquarium overnight, got the largest one there and entered it and then won. Then they realised that was the exact fish that went missing, idk about authenticity but I've heard it still had the tag on it. Worthy of front press news back home lmao
Wait, he broke into an actual aquarium??? The fish zoo place??? Where you have alive fish for children to stare at and stuff???
Then he somehow managed to get into the sea bass exhibit, find the largest one, and escape????? I need to know more.
Edit: OH MY GOD ITS REAL
The guy was apparently an ex-employee of the aquarium, which explains at least some of it.
WOW. The amount of work people would put into cheating and winning is baffling. This dude literally had to plan so much in order to just cheat in a competition. That poor Sea bass too…
@@grimdarkmalarkey5402 oceans 11 but for fish lmao
We gotta understand this is just the dumb people getting cought, I wonder how many of these guys are really cheating...
As someone who’s been fishing for close to 2 decades, in local, group, and state tournaments, this is far too common in the fishing community. Love to see you look further into this Charlie. Tight lines 🤙🏻
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Jesus what’s with the bots
It's stupidly easy to stop too, just bring a metal detector and scan the fish.
@@Kumquat_Lord The fish is already dead, they should (I thought they did since like the 70s) cut every fish open. Pretty sure the meat is donated to local shelters, they should just have a guy check/filet every fish that's entered. You saw the video, takes 2 seconds to slice its stomach open and look.
I really shouldn’t be surprised that cheating is possible and the tactics are very variant in every sport but I truly am. Thank you so much Charlie for this video.
I seen this otw to my tournament thank you for covering this
Im not even into fishing but guys like this (that aren't the cheater) pour a lot of money and time into what they do and have years and years of skill and are passionate about it. They get that even the best fisherman isn't going to catch the weightiest fish all the time and constantly win. The full 20 minute video is really interesting where they show the live weigh ins and the crowd reaction.
True, both fishing and hunting take a lot of time, work and money. The cost is only worth it if other people don’t screw you over.
I love how Charlie will sniff out and oust a cheater in any category of life
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Minecraft cheating, Fortnite cheating, chess cheating, wife cheating, and even fishing cheating. I probably missed some
Been waiting for you to talk about this.
I'm glad that Charlie's covering everything now, from scandals to dramas
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As a 3rd generation fisherman, you absolutely nailed why we fish. Dolphins and whales took it even further and evolved to go back in the water permanently to style on these damn fish.
Also, te weights aren't the smartest. Fish aren't supposed to die in these tournaments, and even a lot of casual fishermen can fairly accurately judge a largemouth's weight by sight alone. Of course you're going to be off a bit here and there, but if a fish is half a pound or more heavier than average, pros will take notice.
"How could they get away with it," I think you got it in your previous sentence. I mean besides it being so egregious this time that the weights fell out, there's this thing called escalation. Liars tend to get more grandiose with time, so he probably STARTED small like you said... and got worse every time he got away with it until now.
I think he was reading commentary about a different tournament with the "weights fell out of their mouth." In the specific instance covered here, they brought a bag of fish that looked similar to everyone else's, the average weight of the bags was 16 pounds, but their bag weighed 33 pounds, which prompted further investigation. I got the exact weights from another comment, but the coverage read explained how they were caught. To clarify, they had to open up this guys fish to find the proof, the weights didn't fall out. Hope that made sense, lol.
@@Magna_Carta5 I mentioned that. BUT he was also wondering why there were allegations this was continuous behavior and whether that was possible. I'm saying it was, if his behavior had escalated to this point, rather than starting at this level of cheating.
As someone who is an amateur fisherman I sometimes catch the pro fishing tour on tv occasionally but I don't really follow it, but oh my god this was absolutely absurd to hear I can't believe someone would actually do something like this and not expect to get caught
I saw this video online and my first thought was I hope Charlie made a video for this bc it would sure make my day. Thank you for making my day better
Charlie is a modern renaissance man - I've been introduced to so many diverse/bizarre topics I feel like he's genuinely enriched my life 😄
Fishing is pretty bizarre
@@oscarsaldanajr890 yeah I’m still trying to figure out what a fish is
I see Charlie is both a Chess and Fishing pro to be covering such topics in detail
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Jesus is omniscient after all
He lives in Florida so I’m guessing he knows more than the average person about fishing. I just love to see both worlds im interested in collide lol
I used to live near lake Erie and that is such a massive tournament- I'm shocked he wasn't caught sooner for this kind of thing
As a fisherman. I'm glad you brought this to light!
On a good note I just moved very south and caught a alligator snapper. That almost 80ish pounds and uI scared asf to grab that dinosaur. It could have easily broke my arm or anything and being the first time ever. I landed it on the bank after and was just happy as hell I did that. Just some young man from Illinois can pulll one of them out of the swamp with his Illinois rig! I was taught how to fish right ! 👌🥰🙏
Makes me very happy you shared your story with a snapper.
Very wholesome
Nice!
I feel like if there wasn't cameras, this dude would be in the hospital. This crowd is angrier than any I've seen in a while haha
i thought the same thing, 100-200 years back he probably wouldn't of been a problem in future competitions lets just say that
@@playcube4564 He would've been..............FISH FOOD..... ill see my self out
As a man who's seen a fish before, this deeply disturbs me and I hope charles keeps up the coverage of this very moist sports scandal.
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You're being so brave about it too
What was it like when you saw the fish
As a woman who has seen two, maybe even three fish before, I fully support your support of Charlie's coverage of this scandal.
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My dad owned a boat dealership and sports shop back in the 90s. His companies hosted fishing tournaments where the grand prize was a new bass boat. The winners would have to pass a polygraph test afterward. Tying out fish has been a cheating tactic used in the past. But this was some bold shit right here!
As a lifelong Clevelander there is an unspoken rule to NOT mess with Fishermen let alone the tournaments. This is one of the largest fishing events (if not thee largest) in the Midwest and as you can see these other Fishermen are PISSED off. I am absolutely certain this entire scenario could have been 100x worse and the fact these guys got away with no physical altercation is insane (I am not advocating for violence but trust me you do not mess with Erie Fishers)
i’m so impressed with peoples ability to ruin anything LMAO
It's always the money that ruins it, to be honest.
Someone in the comments suggested that maybe the next cheating scandal would be in paper plane throwing and it would be so funny, lmao.
@@dfquartzidn6151 whatever that scandal would bring up might push stealth drone technology to the next level. Can't wait.
My dad did this for me for an ice fishing tournament because my mom was super toxic and I never won a trophy, never did sports, was really just trying to survive my childhood, my dad got custody and I won my first and only trophy no cash or anything and he didn’t tell me till I was an adult. I cherished that trophy and tho cheating is wrong I can’t thank him enough. I’ll never forget it, it made me feel like I was a winner. So silly 😂❤️
its sad that you think a trophy is what makes a childhood lmaooooooo life is about having fun. that "woah is me" attitude is what will always make one a loser.
Your dad is a true father in every way my man be grateful he loved you that much lol
@@patmack2871 you have no idea my son is named after him ❤️ it’s like a cute cheating story 😂❤️
@@lisalarsen2384 you have a great father
Yeah obviously cheating is no good but since it was just a simple (but precious) trophy it was harmless. It'd be different if it was money. Great father award 😄
I used to be really into fishing, I was in a competition when I was about eight. And the fish I caught was huge, but turns out there was a man with his son there who also caught a fish very close to the size of mine. I swear mine was slightly bigger (pause) but they won the prize instead of me. Which was a lifetime supply of fishing gear, and my prize for second place was keeping the tournament shirt I was already wearing, and that everyone else already had.
Wow if I was in those contests I’d be furious. He stole a ton of money from everyone involved, and they’ll probably never be able to get that money back
When cheaters get away with it for so long, they get way more brazen. Same with criminals; they get too confident and eventually get caught.
Turns out the guy who was pulling the weights out is just a master of sleight of hand magic. Gets em every time.
If you saw the video you would not have made that comment if you see the fish bulging
Pfffffftttbwuhahahahaha
Regarding on how they would guess to check the bass. The bass in this professional tournament are weighing in 10-30 pounds sometimes. This guy seemed to be stuffing as much as he could in the fish so once you picked up the bass by the jaw you it was probably like picking up a small dumbbell. Or the metal weights hit against each other and made noise or he didn’t hide the weights well enough.
I’m so glad ur talking about this Charlie
Man now i wanna be a fisherman that community seems so tight like their not even hating their more surprised and upset he was cheating they truly had respected him being the champ thats love
Oh boy, I can't wait for the next obscure cheating scandal, that I'll learn about from Charlie. It's probably going to be from the competitive paper plane throwing league or something like that.
Biggest Cheating Scandal in Pinewood Derby history!!!
he literally just scrolls through twitter, make a twitter and you wont have to rely on charlie to spoon feed you the news
@@loversandlosers Nah, he finds interesting stuff, but about 90 percent of it doesn't concern me enough for me to try and look for it myself. I mostly just enjoy his commentary, I don't watch him for news.
@@Some-One Me too, lmfao.
I hope the legend Pure Paper Petes legacy remains untarnished, please anyone but him!
I'm so glad you covered this
What Charlie didn’t mention is that not only did they beat the previous record by almost 10lbs, they more than doubled the weight of the second place team. They weighed in something like 34lbs while second place was 16 and change
Critical wanting to uncover the cheater’s secrets with chat is so cute
yeah it was sweet :) sorry about the bots x
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I am so glad that he made a video about this. Thanks for showing everyone that these cheaters are going too get caught no matter what! THEY HAVE TO PAY IT BACK!!!
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For that quantity, they definitely gotta give it back
As a bass fisherman I’m so glad he covered this I’ve been waiting
Never thought you'd cover this but thanks for doing it 👍
Charlie putting himself in scandals he isn't with involved with is hilarious to me 😂
Charley been stuck in that computer room too long. He needs to get outside for some sun and outdoor activity of some kind.
@@swordfish2089 I mean there's a hurricane going on for him... Maybe not
Thank you for not havinng any bots under your comment man
No bots :D
@@mooma10
That passed days ago…
With the amount of money involved, these guys definitely meet the standard for Theft by Deception.
Four bots jesus.
What's theft by deception? How bad of a crime is it penalty wise
Oooo. This happened in my neck of the woods. I didn’t hear about it until now. Pretty interesting, and honestly not surprising, but sad at the same time.
they were suspected for the longest time and they were now finally caught.
We live in a society where we need to beware both phishing and fishing...
Don't get baited, some of these scams catch people hook line and stinker.
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@@scorpion0498 Scams? With all due respect these just seem like lonely teenagers who can’t get hobbies.
@@vinnywcreal wat. i was making puns brutha.
As a fisherman im incredibly surprised this is a video. I knew about the drama but the alst thing i expected was for charlie to know about it.
As someone who once caught a crab while fishing, I am cearly a professional and I can say that Jake definetly did an oopsie poopsie
My girlfriend’s step dad has come in second place multiple times in this exact tournament, and he is LIVID about all of this.
:( that sucks. are there no second place prizes?
I live in Port Clinton Ohio right next to where this took place. As a local marina owner/ fisherman I’m so happy this story has made it this far.
Charlie makes me interested about the controversies in the most obscure sports and I absolutely love it
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Bruh Charlie either reviewing YT, Reddit or watching shittty content on Twitch and getting million views, how lame is this dude why is he still relevant?
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Is fishing really considered obscure?
Living in Wisconsin, people cheat constantly at local ice fishing tourneys. You know what are prettymuch identical? A frozen fish you caught half an hour ago and a frozen fish you caught a week ago at a different lake/river
This happened near me lol. I saw news articles on it and I was dumbfounded
Fishermen are definitely overlooked on their place in society. They always supply the freshest fish. They deserve more praise for their hard work.
I’m not talking about sport fishermen (although they are somewhat important)
Cringe af
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@@kingkobralive shut up
Big fan of fishing
Sorry about the bots. Fishers do need more attention because we forget that they provide so much food.
I've heard about local tourneys using polygraphs and checking for things like this. But pretty bold at this level of comp.
i seen the longer lead up video of them saying he won and then them going back to review the fish. it was about two minutes of that before it got to that point. It was on TikTok when i saw it
Charlies content switched to 100% silly scandalnews. I love it