I'm not a very frequent contributor here, and I'm pretty late stumbling into this very interesting thread, but let me share a thought.
As a boy visiting my family's farm about 60 miles north of Dallas, I remember one summer when I was watching a thunderstorm come through, it looked like slivers of hail were falling with the rain. They were small "minnows"! They would flop around a little on the ground. I don't know what kind of fish they were, nor was there much of an explanation provided, other than that they may have been picked up by high winds or a water spout, but I had the newspaper clipping from the Gainesville Register for years. I saw it with my own eyes, and I was TOO YOUNG to be drinking! I've since heard of the same thing happening with small frogs. I suppose this could happen more often than one might think.
...If you build it, they will come...
