Fish find their ways. you may not believe this story and I sure as heck wouldn't if I didn't witness it but, one day in between scuba dives at my local quarry , the fish present in the quarry at the time were bluegills, black crappies, yellow bullheads, channel catfish, and largemouth bass. Well a what I think was a seagull of some kind flew overhead and dropped in what looked like 3 small (5-6") elongate fish. I thought "probably some trout" and immediately assumed they'd be eaten by a bass or die from being carried by a seagull out of water. Well next year we go diving, the guy who owns it is a good friend and hasn't stocked it since he first got it (that's how I know what exact fish are in it, he told me the ones I mentioned above plus some fathead minnows and other baitfish). Like I said, go diving the next year and the first dive somebody says they saw a northern pike. I didn't believe them since people don't always know what they're talking about. I looked for them every dive since that that year and couldn't find any. Well, last dive last year guess what I find....an adult (18-20") northern pike hiding in a weed bed. I told the owner and verified the fish by a picture and he said he's never stocked a northern in the quarry.
So, if a northern pike can survive for at a year and a half and grow to be large after being dropped by a seagull into a quarry then I'm guessing as hardy as bullheads are they can find some way.
Yeah I know, that REALLY sounds like a fish story, but it happened somehow!
