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Encyclopedia > Rain of fish

A rain of fish is a term used to describe the rare occasion of when fish fall from the sky after being picked up by an approaching tornado and subsequently dropped onto land.


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Fish Report Archive (14082 words)
Meaning if your first fish that you retained was a non fin clipped fish, and the second fish that you landed was the same, but bleeding and more likely to die you would still have to put it back in the river.
Fishing was a little slower today than yesterday, although we ended the day with his limits of fish.
It was raining and the river was on a rise which triggered the fish to move from their holding spots.
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