Well, Here's a fish that gained a lot of respect from me and did get named when I worked with him. When I worked for the Atantic Salmon Restoration Program in CT at a salmon spawning facility, we had a fiesty male salmon of around 8 lbs jump from one holding tank to another where he apparently lifted the grate from the center drain, swam into the sump where he kicked out the stand pipe thereby draining the tank. The two other salmon in the tank died, but "PIPEFISH" survived in the shallow sludge at the bottom of the sump. Pipefish, battered and bruised recovered fully and I was able to get this "wild" searun to eat by midwinter. I left the job for a couple of years, when I came back, Pipefish was a WHOPPING 52 lbs, largest salmon on record at the station. Pipefish led a happy life and his genetics live on in the Connecticut River Salmon Restoration Program.
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