Did you ever "highgrade"?

[redlite]

High grading is something I never even considered doing, even when fishing tournies, even when it was legal.

I know that last year the Squirrel Cops got a couple of guys down at the canal for having fish on stringers, and I know of someone down the cape that got nailed for having one in his live well on the boat. Also got guys out on race Point for having fillets in their coolers. I believe the fines were $100 beans for the high grading and $50 beans a pop per a fillet.

It was weird to hear people talk about it because it seemed that a lot of the same people that gripe about such activities going on illegally, were griping even more about the fact that it was actually enforced....for once.