Quote Originally Posted by NIMROD View Post
If you follow regs , your fish count towards your daily limit even if you give them away.
That is correct if you catch a fish and give it away it is still counted toward your limit. However, you can catch all the fish you want to during a day as long as you only keep your "creel limit" to take home or give away to someone else. For instance, you could not catch 20 and give them away to your buddy who is on the water in another boat and then go catch yourself another 20.

Some of you guys are a little paranoid in my opinion. If you have a limit in the boat and keep catching them in order to cull a few little ones no one is going to care if you reach into the livewell and throw out a little one to keep a bigger one. Yes technically you will have 21 fish in the boat for just a few seconds in order to accomplish the cull but do you truly think that anyone is going to care. The wildlife officers are out there trying to catch people who are blatantly breaking the rules for most part. I'm sure on occasion there is some poor soul who doesn't really know the law who gets caught doing something wrong, but it is their responsibility to know the rules if they are going to hunt or fish in our fine state. These types of matters are not very vague in my opinion. We all know what the creel limits are, that we have to have a license to hunt or fish, that we have to have life jackets in the boat, and tags on the hull, etc. If you don't know the rules you can log onto the web site and get them for free or pick up one of those colorful little books they have at the checkout at every bait shop and Wal-Mart in the state. As long as you are following the rules you have nothing to be concerned about.

Let's call this for what it is...greed. If you go catch your limit take them home and then come back to catch another limit you are rolling the dice and if you get caught, oh well, it's on you and you shouldn't be upset with no one but yourself. The guys that are doing this are stealing from everyone of us who pay our license fees each year and do abide by the rules.