" I did rescue the little fella successfully trimmed up his tail a tad and let him go back in the water. High hopes he or she doesn't make it back up on the shore again."
....a little altruism mixed in with the brutality of Mother Nature???
That is a funny observation, Sunil.
Lots of talk on the forum of trying to take great care of our forage fish so they will happily multiply ... in the hopes that they will then be slaughtered by our predator fish!
We are certainly a strange group. Good thing the internet tucked all of us into this small, obscure corner.