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General Activities => Photography => Topic started by: BUTTER on April 19, 2022, 07:09:27 AM

Title: Can anyone id this fish?
Post by: BUTTER on April 19, 2022, 07:09:27 AM: This fish was swimming in shallow water in my neighbor's pond.
Title: Re: Can anyone id this fish?
Post by: DXT on April 19, 2022, 07:47:30 AM: Snakehead?🤷‍♂️
Title: Re: Can anyone id this fish?
Post by: Rickhem on April 19, 2022, 07:51:30 AM: Those big scales and the location would seem to point to it being a carp, but the head looks strange. Maybe the water refracts the image to cause that?
Does your neighbor have grass carp in the pond?
Title: Re: Can anyone id this fish?
Post by: BUTTER on April 19, 2022, 08:25:59 AM: The pond was stocked with carp about 6 years ago. It seems that carp would be wider and with a different shape head.
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Post by: Chris1389 on April 19, 2022, 09:06:35 AM: Looks like a bowfin
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Post by: WEM144 on April 19, 2022, 09:50:27 PM: I say carp, angle of the pic changes the width of the fish making it look much skinnier then it really is.
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Post by: Camp Cook on April 19, 2022, 10:47:19 PM: Hybrid grass carp. Sometimes they live 15 years
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Post by: Rickhem on April 20, 2022, 11:26:21 AM: Quote from: WEM144 on April 19, 2022, 09:50:27 PM
I say carp, angle of the pic changes the width of the fish making it look much skinnier then it really is.

+1
Title: Re: Can anyone id this fish?
Post by: Appleman on April 22, 2022, 06:28:04 AM: Hungry grass carp that has not has not a good meal for a while because it was winter. See them in many farm ponds==want to piss a farmer off and get a one way ticket off the farm for good ==do something to hurt the algae control fish that he had put in the ponds. Not a good deal!
Title: Re: Can anyone id this fish?
Post by: JayBay on April 29, 2022, 07:51:30 AM: Could it be a snake head?