Great debate going on here, clearly room for interpretation which is dicey where the law is concerned. Personally, I will only ice 3 walleye and keep fishing in case one dies (4th fish, I'm done). I do see a big conundrum in have 4 fish on the ice and continuing to target walleye. Sure you can C&R, but what if you bring one up that's going to die? Aside from foul hooking, lengthy time bringing in a big fish, bringing fish up from deep water there is a significant risk to the fish even being out in -25 air for minute while it's unhooked...eyes and gills freeze quick! It IS illegal to release the dead fish and it IS illegal to keep it over limit/size. I'd like to know what the MNR enforcement has to say about this. In all reality I personally have hard time catching 4 walleye
On that note...if you have one on the ice over the 24.8" limit (or whatever the # is, I don't keep bigguns) you run the significant risk of 2 dead bigguns if you keep fishing.
Party fishing is clearly a no-no...but as for the 4 guys with 200 perch on simcoe...how the heck were they supposed to know who's fish was who's other than separate piles (they were in a boat I think?). That's ridiculous. I would've picked them out one by one saying this one's mine, I recognize his stripes. That one's his, it has blue eyes....