Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyon were stripped of their winning title after a tournament official discovered lead weights inside the fish they caught. The anglers had been competing in the Lake Erie Walleye Trail Championship in Ohio. Suspicions were raised at the weigh-in when their fish weighed almost double their closest competitor. In the world of competitive fishing, by adding the weights to the fish, Cominsky and Runyon's total poundage increased and put them on top of the leaderboard. When the weights were discovered, the duo was disqualified from the event. The waiting crowd were furious once the officials announced they had cheated. Prior to the scandal, Cominsky and Runyon were winning the season standings for the professional fishing team of the year. Cominsky and Runyon have been embroiled in controversy in the past. At last year's Fall Brawl fishing tournament, the duo was disqualified following their win after one of them failed a polygraph test.