They just need help with wording their information.
If you catch a Lake Trout or Rainbow Trout during the derby: Measure it to see if it is a legal catch. If it is and you think it would place well on the board (or you want to keep it to eat), kill it and put it in your cooler. If not, put it back down the hole. If you are caught with a Salmonid Species of fish (the Trouts, salmon, etc) that is not dead but in holding (in a cooler or someplace to keep it alive till the end of the day) and fish and game stops by for a check, you are in trouble.
All other species of fish: Before you leave your fishing spot to bring a fish that you think will place on the board. Take said fish and kill it, any other keepers that you intend to keep and eat (therefore you will not try to place them on the board) need to stay behind in the truck or at the fishing hole. They do not want you flopping through a cooler while in line to pull out the right fish.
You cannot keep it alive until the very last moment to save that 10th of a pound.
Example: You caught 3 White Perch, 1 is a lunker and you think you have a shot at the board. It is 2:00pm and you have an hour drive to Meredith, but you are sleeping in the bobhouse tonight. Take the one fish you intend to put on the board, kill it, leave the other two at the bobhouse. The dead fish gets packed in ice water to keep its weight up and you drive to Meredith. You step on the podium and open your cooler, it only contains one fish and it is dead. They shake your hand and pin it to the board (if it qualifies).
Situation is exactly the same for Trout. The only difference is you have to be within your limits. It is black and white, it is either dead and in your posession or it is back down the hole alive.
And if you have 5 fish that you think could place on the board, your cooler contains 5 dead fish.
If that is not clear or I have missed it completely, feel free to let me know.
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