YES they do get fined. I watched a group of about 8 of them get every piece of fishing equipment, included the little 2 man boat they had, taken away last spring for keeping a LARGE number of short fish. This was at cane run. They are out there everyday, not just weekends. One of the guys that I work pulls their boat for them ever so often. This is second hand info so take it as you will but according to him several families go in and buy the boat then take turns taking it to the lake. So at least one family is out there everyday. That's how they catch so many. You take 4 or 5 groups of families and you have a convoy out there constantly staying on the fish and telling the others how and where when they get home. Also they get there at daylight and don't leave until dark.