Originally Posted by
RTG
Actually the law says that trout cannot be maintained or possessed in a live condition in any container "on or attached to any boat." So if you have them in a basket on shore you're OK. Other considerations are if you have your limit of 5 trout (or whatever the limit is for your particular water) in possession you can't continue to fish for trout-even if you're C&Ring. And if you cull a small fish for a bigger one and the small one is dead, or close to death, you could be cited for waste of fish.
No disrespect meant to seal on this, just wanted to make sure we were right on. BTW, the intent of the law is to prevent fishermen from using trout as live bait.