Reoccurring dream about a trout

About a year ago I had a similar dream many nights in a row. With slight variations.

The part thats always the same. I'm walking down the dock at the family cabin, a place very fimilure to me. And off to one side I see a trout struggling in the water a little ways away.

Same thought always hits me "I need to help it or put it out of its misery." So I jump into the knee high water and start wadeing over to it.

This is where it's different every time. Once I get to the fish something has happened to it. Once it had turned into a skeleton, another time it was made out of circuit boards. The last one that stands out was it was covered in plaster and I tried to break and peel it off the fish.

Since then trout have made appearances in more subtle ways. Like the other day there was a mini one in my fish tank.

All I can figure is the trout is my spirit animal or something.