Anyone care to offer an opinion of whether it's legal to clean your fish before returning to shore? Here is the text from the regs:

"Fish or shellfish may be cleaned or portioned
while in the field with the following exceptions:
It is unlawful for a angler to fail to retain proof
of compliance with species, size, number,
weight, sex or wild or hatchery origin
restriction, if such restrictions apply, until the
angler is ashore and has finished fishing for
the day."

Sounds to me like it's legal as long as you can prove the fish was over 22".