I was fishing at my place last Saturday. I was using shiners (2-4") that I bought from my regular bait store.

When I was done, I was throwing the leftover shiners into the pond, and there was a baby black bullhead in there. He got relocated to the shore.

I had the bait bucket in the water, and he was small enough to have swam through one of the holes in the bucket (not the circulation holes), so I really don't know if he migrated from the bait store.

I'm leaning toward the Mother Nature theory (birds, reptiles, storms, etc).


Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."