Legal to give fish away?

[stripernut]

a very long time ago this came up with a group that had chartered multiple boats for a striper trip. 2 of the boats were really on 'em , on em to the point they limited out in 30 minutes. the customers on their boat while quite tickled they did so well were dissapointed they had driven all the way from detroit to fish for 30 minutes and spend the rest of the day in the cabins at j-town resort marina. the other boats in the group didnt limit out on the first day and the question was asked by a customer to the CO standing on the dock if it would be okay if when they caught their limit the second morning if they could drive to the other boat and split the fish up and continue to fish. the answer was a "absolutely not".
the next morning the CO was not only on the dock when the trip departed but he was very "visible" throughout the day (this particular CO is a helluva nice guy too ).
im kinda thinkin like CARTER on this one....no creel limit = no foul. if it is a species that has a state creel ehhhh ??????

[Duayne]

^^^ I'm voting this is the correct answer. It's one thing to catch and release. Placing a fish in a box or livewell is intent to keep. Handing a fish over to another boat, also, is intent to keep and the person that caught the fish is initially responsible for the fish's fate. Now, if you could release the fish and "guide" it over to the other boat? THAT'S a gray area.. LOL

[stripernut]

ok lets go one step further down the road of gray areas....
creel limits are set on a "per day basis" ....
if you start fishing at 7pm does your "creel limit" reset to zero at 1201am that same night?
year before last when the night bite for walleye was so good we just hated leaving when we caught our limit, which was usually pretty quick at that time. but we did leave, night after night. one evening when we were launching the local CO drove down to the ramp and chatted with us and i asked him the same question and he said it was the gray area from heck. he said he wouldnt have ay problem at all if we loaded the boat on the trailer , left and came back WITHOUT FISH after midnight .

im satisfied with his answer but curious as to what the black and white rule is, not the gray one.

[peter]

My guess the regulation says "per day" not per 24 hours. The day starts after midnight.

[MagikSmallie]

ok lets go one step further down the road of gray areas....
creel limits are set on a "per day basis" ....
if you start fishing at 7pm does your "creel limit" reset to zero at 1201am that same night?
year before last when the night bite for walleye was so good we just hated leaving when we caught our limit, which was usually pretty quick at that time. but we did leave, night after night. one evening when we were launching the local CO drove down to the ramp and chatted with us and i asked him the same question and he said it was the gray area from heck. he said he wouldnt have ay problem at all if we loaded the boat on the trailer , left and came back WITHOUT FISH after midnight .

im satisfied with his answer but curious as to what the black and white rule is, not the gray one.

I know in Alaska they have special guided trips for Halibut that start at night so you can get a limit for one day, the trip lasts until the morning and once it hits midnight its a new day and you can keep another limit.