Angler caught cheating in pike angling competition

bitemybanger

Snippet from today's Star newspaper

An angling body has strongly condemned the "crazy and cruel" actions of a fisherman who inserted a lead bar weighing one pound into the live fish in order to win a competition.
The cheat is believed to have forced the bar down the fish's throat in hope of claiming between €100 and €150 prize money.
The day after the Midland Pike Angling competition the pike was found dead at the location with the weight inside it.
John Chambers of IFPAC said "it's cruel for starters and the prize money was only small, to do something like this is crazy.


Not everyone is in for the sport.
Sickos.

beer enigma

should be prosecuted for cruelty

bitemybanger

Absolutely. Named and shamed and banned from all future competitions. Even tho it would take some set of town halls to enter another one after that.

experimenter

Sad :eek:

premiercad

now i've heard it all...shocking and stupid :eek:

aidanf

I'm really surprised someone would stoop this low just to win a competition.

Perpetrator should be named and shamed.

Edit: although from the extract above it's not clear if they know who did it - they just found the fish the next day.

Dusty87

The local club have a coarse competition one evening a week every summer for kids. One year a young lad caught fish earlier in the day and fed them lead pellets. Was only caught when they weighed his fish which weighed more than a bigger one caught shortly after. That was years ago now. Shockin to read that today.

aidanf

Some more info over on the Irish Pike club forum.

jkchambers wrote:

Guys ! how many times do I have to say it - there isnt the evidence to link the dead pike to the competitor. It was the next day that the pike was found. The locals have challenged him and told him , in no uncertain terms, that he better stay away from all competitions in the area. Nearby clubs have also been informed. It is the talk of the area and the guy must be suffering. I will see if we can get local IFI guys to interview him. If he admits it - great

jkchambers wrote:

The guy presented the pike to a steward who weighed it but would not credit the guy with the catch as the pike on its last legs. It was returned to the lake by the "angler". There was talk about it later after the results were announced in the pub and some officers got suspicious and decided to visit the location the next morning. After a while they found the pike and thought that there was something very hard in its stomach. They opened it up and found the lead bar.

calerbass

Thats terrible carry on.

Compton

sick...

jolter

in all fairness this guy must have the IQ of a grasshopper.