First of all thanks to rushcreekoutdoor for agreeing to answer some questions about the KDFWR regulations...this could turn out to be a valuable asset to the KY subforum of CC....

There is obviously a lot of animosity from most of us here at CC about some people keeping and cleaning undersized fish....

My question actually pertains to the legal (I assume) practice that I see at Ky Dam Marina (and others I'm sure) of a fish cleaning station on the dock that allows fishermen to discard their cleaned fish carcasses back into the lake...

If a fisherperson was approached by a conservation officer at the cleaning station on the dock...how would one prove to a conservation officer (after the carcasses are discarded into the lake) that the fillets he's looking at came from a legal or non-legal sized fish...??