My guess is that its an early winter fish. There have been a couple winters caught up at reiter, so there's definetly been a few pods of fresh fish move in since the last rains. I have caught several summer hens in the last few weeks and they are stil in pretty good shape, but nothing like a chrome winter. Fresh summer runs are long gone... Hopefully the little nate is a remnant of the early wild winter fish! These fish should be protected just as much as the feb/mar/apr fish.

Cant wait for winter steel laugh
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