Rules state you must tag the fish immediately upon retaining it... so therefore at MOST you should have had one untagged fish... or none. When you went to tag the first one you should have realized you did not have what you needed and either went to go get it OR stopped fishing and throw that one back... or have a catch and release day.
You know what you had to do... but chose not to, accept the fines.
LC
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