I read about this a minute ago and laughed my ass off.
Had a fellow tried to get heaviest fish years ago by putting fishing weights inside the fish.
He was found out because the fish wasn't very long for the weight and a male bass.
These folks are just crazy stupid.
There was a controversy over a tournament winner or record class bass I forget which back in the late '80s in Texas. the fellow that caught a large bass that an x-ray showed a weight in it. A lot of people wanted to string him up even though it was shown that bass had ate the weight because of the growth around it. I guess the bass couldn't pass the lead weights. He also passed a lie detector.
