Sorry Buckeyezip and everyone who believes his theory- Cooley Farms is correct. The DOW does not recognize boat limits as the legal method of counting daily bag limits. In fact, I know of a fisherman who was ticketed during the spring jig bite a few years ago for overbagging when he had the hot hand and caught the majority of the walleyes on the boat one morning.

Even though the total boat count only had the legal number of walleyes on board, the game wardens had been watching them fish long enough to see who caught and kept how many fish, then followed them into the marina and wrote the guilty party up. It doesn't happen often, because watching a group to tally individual catches is not an efficient use of their time, but sometimes they get intel by splitting up the group and asking them individually who caught how many to see if someone spills the beans.