technically its illegal "to waste a sport fish" so by state law culling or throwing out a dead bass is illegal, its a little known fact and rarely enforced. the act of culling(not dead fish) in tournaments is common place, you just have to be thoughtful about not keeping your fish out of the water for too long. definitely throwing them in the bottom of the boat to sort through them is less than ideal(rubs slime coat off and theyre out of water). one of the big things is placement of penetrating cull tags, if you put it through thin tissue, then suspend the fish by it while culling it can tear a big hole in the fish's mouth.
