It has been a few years but I did ask a game warden to explain to me how possession limit,daily limit and culling works. If you are fishing for bass with a 6 fish daily limit you must stop fishing when you have possession of 6 fish. You can cull but that only applies when you have 5 in the livewell then you catch number 6,stop fishing and cull back to 5. That is the only legal way you can cull and then continue to fish. A person is breaking the law if they catch 6 fish and continue to fish.
Therefore when fishing Cedar Creek it would technically be against the law to cull. They have a 1 bass over 20" limit. When you catch the 1 you must stop fishing. If you want to continue fishing you must throw back your one fish...so I suppose you could cull back to 0.
On the possession deal if 2 people are in a boat bass fishing an individual is allowed 6 bass and a total of 12 between the 2 people. If you catch 8 and your partner catches 4 the person with 8 fish is breaking the law even though they are allowed 12 combined. The warden I spoke with actually wrote a ticket for this scenario just a few days before I asked about it. He pulled up to check a boat and they openly told him they had 7 keepers. He checked their license and livewell and all fish were over 12". Everything was going good until one guy spoke up and said my partner is wearing my butt out I have not caught a fish all morning. The person who caught the fish owned up to it and that slip of the tounge cost his buddy a ticket.
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