Thanks, Snipe.
I don't recall all of cat's pond details, but his catch rate of these somewhat deformed fish sounds very, very high. Or he fishes way, way more than others. Theo's comment about early stocking survival of such a fish makes sense and in cat's case, it seems it's a long existing pond with no supplement stocking,
I maybe should not have said 'in-breeding.' It does seem like cat has a lot of these fish.
