When the bite is on, your throwing fish in the live-well. At the ramp, your focused on loading the boat on the trailer, unloading gear form the boat, grabbing fish and hustling to make the scales. Miscounts happen more frequently than you can imagine. It's easy to loose focus, and miss-count. Seen several show up with 6 and not 7 too. Also seen them swear they are missing a big one or two, but have there limit. After weigh-in check their live-well and sure enough, they crabbed a couple of shorter ones and left bigger fish in another live-well. Seen that too, got their limit in one live-well, and the partner grabs them out of the other liver-well.

Easy to say how can you miss-count when your not under the clock? But once that clock starts, things change. Doesn't matter how much time you get to fish, there is never enough time at the ramp afterwards...