When you do something like that it makes you question your sanity.
I took six fish into weigh in at Fork one day. At one point that morning we had 10 fish in my livewell. We were whacking them. Once we got to ten I told my partner to keep fishing while I got my balance beam & culled down to the best five (or so I thought). The livewell on my Bullet was black and very hard to see those fish in there. We keep fishing & cull a couple more times during the day.
We get to the check in dock and start bagging the fish. I get 5 in the bag and OOPS- there is one more in there. I pull out my balance beam again and we cull at the check in dock. My partner takes the bag and heads to weigh in. I go load the boat. I get back to the pavilion and we have won the event with the largest sack of Unders ever weighed in an event on Fork up to that point. It was 11.97! My partner goes to the poly trailer and comes out a few mins later and gives me the thumbs up.
After the weigh in the TD comes over to me looking like his dog just died. He tells me another competitor saw us culling at the dock. I confessed as I thought we had done no wrong. Stupid me thought since it was a team event we could have 10 fish in the livewell. Doh!!
I voluntarily withdrew our catch and took a GOOSE-EGG for the event we just won....
Glad you recovered Tom.