I live at a small man-made lake. I noticed someone had left a pile of Bluegills just laying there to die.
I picked up one and ran it through the water backwards to get water running through it’s gills. After about 4 times of doing this, it gave a little shudder and swam away.
I did the same thing to the next five fish and they all shuddered and swam off once they were revived.
The last fish had to wait about 5 minutes from me spending so much time with the others before him, so it was pretty close to dead.
I ran him through the water backwards about 7 times and it wasn’t responding. I kept at it and finally it gave a slight shudder and swam off disappearing into the depths.
I stood up feeling good that I saved them but wasn’t too sure about the last one. I hung around feeling kind of good about helping them when I saw this one fish come slowly chugging along towards me.
It actually poked its head up, about an inch out of the water and really seemed to be addressing me. I guessed that it wanted some more help so I reached down expecting it to jump away from me, but it let me pick it up out of the water. I ran it backwards in the water another 4 or 5 times and then it gave a jolt and shot off like the others.
I think that last fish came back to where it knew I had helped it wanting me to help it some more.
I never felt like that before or since. It felt like what you would expect people try to reach meditating, where you are at a higher level of yourself or something like that.

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Maybe it wanted to grant you 3 wishes, like that old fairy tale about the fisherman who catches the magic fish and lets it go. Maybe it was a magic fish.

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How do you know they left them there to die? Perhaps the blue gills swam to that location, just as the one had when it was returning to you.

I live near many small ponds and walk by them frequently. In the hot summer months when, I presume, there is a low oxygen supply in the water, there are fish swimming into the banks. They beach themselves and continue to swim. I'm not ichthyologist, but I imagine they're trying to find more water, more oxygen, more something else. Perhaps these blue gills were doing the same thing. That one came back to you because you were where in between it and the bank of the pond.

I don't know if this is the reason for what happened, but it's a possibility, isn't it?

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How do you know they left them there to die? Perhaps the blue gills swam to that location, just as the one had when it was returning to you.

I live near many small ponds and walk by them frequently. In the hot summer months when, I presume, there is a low oxygen supply in the water, there are fish swimming into the banks. They beach themselves and continue to swim. I'm not ichthyologist, but I imagine they're trying to find more water, more oxygen, more something else. Perhaps these blue gills were doing the same thing. That one came back to you because you were where in between it and the bank of the pond.

I don't know if this is the reason for what happened, but it's a possibility, isn't it?

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