When was there a time when you said something like, "I have NEVER seen anything like it!"?

Crazy. We took the grandkids out to our land. It’s been REALLY cold and we wanted to see if the pond had frozen over (it was a little frozen around the edges.)

Due to the drought the pond has been really small, but we got a good rain and now the pond is HUGE! Flood huge!

We had been out there for about 45 minutes messing around when Rick came rushing by with some large plastic cup and said, “Hey! Who wants to rescue some fish?”
I thought “WTH?”
So we made our way over to the other side of the pond and into the woods and Rick showed us where there there were hundreds of live little fish in the grass! We’d flip over a pile of wet leaves that were in a little low spot and there would be 7 or 8 baby fish freaking out. We were literally picking catfish, bass and perch up out of the field and the woods and taking them to the pond!

Rick showed me what had happened…the water had flooded outside of one corner of the pond and was drained into a rivulet we’d noticed before (when it was dry) and sucked the little fishes out with it. When the pond and the rivulet receded it left all those fishes stranded in the field, but still alive.

The damp combined with the freezing temps allowed the little guys to survive at least 3 days on land till we discovered them. We restocked our pond!

They ranged from about 4 inches to 8 or 9. It was the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen!