17 years ago, I got ticketed by the game warden for a single teeny-tiny crappie (~2") that was in a bucket of shad literally 1 minute after he saw me empty my throw net in the bucket, and toss the net out again. 
"Illegal method of game fishing," and "game fish under legal limit." There were probably a dozen or so decent sized shad in this net, and I wanted to maximize my catch out of that school before culling out the "illegals." Hah...I just made a punny off of your post.
