Last year on the Lyre from November to the middle of January I caught around 20 female steelies and all but 2 of them had this same deal going, they would either drop the eggs when I cut them open or would have no eggs at all. These fish were all bright fish, I was really puzzled myself, but shrugged it off as no big deal, strange that is all I can say. Other fish from different rivers were'nt like this either.