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Offline BUTTER

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Can anyone id this fish?
« on: April 19, 2022, 07:09:27 AM »
This fish was swimming in shallow water in my neighbor's pond. 

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Re: Can anyone id this fish?
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2022, 07:47:30 AM »
Snakehead?🤷‍♂️

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Re: Can anyone id this fish?
« Reply #2 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?

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Re: Can anyone id this fish?
« Reply #3 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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Re: Can anyone id this fish?
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2022, 09:06:35 AM »
Looks like a bowfin

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Re: Can anyone id this fish?
« Reply #5 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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Re: Can anyone id this fish?
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2022, 10:47:19 PM »
Hybrid grass carp.  Sometimes they live 15 years

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Re: Can anyone id this fish?
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2022, 11:26:21 AM »
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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Re: Can anyone id this fish?
« Reply #8 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!

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Re: Can anyone id this fish?
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2022, 07:51:30 AM »
Could it be a snake head?

 

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