They bought a lottery ticket.
Bob,
Just so there is no misunderstanding I posted before I saw your post but yours ended up first. So I am in no way trying to say I know more than you! You've forgotten more about fish than I will ever know.
However if there's one thing I've learned about nature with my small bit of experience: Never say never!
You know what someone should do? Next time they whack a heron (with a permit of course) save a leg and freeze it. Then get some bluegills to bed in a tank and either see if you can get the eggs to stick to the foot or remove them and place them inside the wet folded foot and see how long the eggs are viable.
One thing I'm sure we all know is trout eggs are shipped without water all the time. As long as they are kept cool and moist they will be fine for several days. Why couldn't a small percentage of eggs make it to stream or river and the subsequent offspring move from there?
