my wife put the first winter fish in the boat on 11/15...we where catching silvers and i never gave the fish a second look until i put it in the box, it was 12.4lbs of mint clipped fish(hen).. full skeins of eggs and all,, cought it on a flash n glo in frog water go figure??( also it was caught in the upper river?)thats 3 weeks early for me