It is called income generation, with all the states out of money, they are all doing all they can to generate money for the coffers. The State of Illinois is the worst for sure. With waterfowl, they do surely have to be in the identifible possession of the person who shot them.

With a possession of 30 and 25 in the bag he was blowing smoke at something, if you have 89 in the cooler, it might have been different.

Had 2 CO's in Florida show up, get in the boat with the wife and I, counted every fish out of the livewell, 37 toward a limit of 50 speck's and said all was good. I asked if it was ok to keep them together and he said yes, that was in FloridaHands Clapping