Legal to give fish away?

[Dave Stewart]

X2 on what ESOX2009 said.....
i'm imagining that the "clarification" would all but "clarify", more likely it would include laguage like;

an angler is considered to be in posession of a fish when he reaches the point of intent to keep, notwithstanding the intent to revive or retrieve the lure or hook

and most of us would say "HUH" ?!

lawmakers must get paid by the word....

im going to suppose the final say will continue to be left up to the CO handling the situation.....thank goodness we have some pretty reasonable COs around cumberland who seem to have a pretty strong background in the outdoors and alot of common sense.

Then again...the word possession could be clarified to say that a fish is in possession if not released immediately after it has been caught and removed from the hook. There would be no question then and no one would be at the mercy of someone's opinion. I certainly agree most CO's use common sense....they are also subject to being wrong just like any other human being....and so are judges, especially when the law is not clear. Like I said before, obviously the reason no one has answered my email is that no one knows for sure because the law is not clarified.