Aquila Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Holy cow...i mean fish!!! http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/7911 ... -goldfish/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hovmoller Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 What a freak of nature!! Looks kinda cool anyway though. I used to catch carp back in Denmark but not like this one!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquila Posted September 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 I think a huge tank full of them in an Asian zoo would be great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morcs Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 Definately looks to be about the size of record carp we had in the uk. Dunno about the colour though, either photoshopped or its a cross with a golden tench Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 The colour surprises me too sa I would have thought it would revert back to more 'natural' colouring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 koi keep their colour into old age maybe a touch of photoshop but some i have seen bow hunted out of the waikato have been close to that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stella Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 The colour surprises me too sa I would have thought it would revert back to more 'natural' colouring. Well, the population will, over time, because individuals showing the bright colour phenotypes will be more easily removed from the gene pool by predators. Individuals retain their own phenotype for life. While koi have been in Europe for a long time, long enough to show at least significant reversion, it is also likely that more recent releases would maintain higher levels of non-wild colour variants than you would expect otherwise. Anyway, DAMNED IMPRESSIVE FISH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 nom nom nom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zayne Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 looks too fake to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim r Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 I think the photo is super-imposed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 The fish does look too bright? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted September 11, 2010 Report Share Posted September 11, 2010 The guy's fingers on the front look relatively large, makes me think maybe the photo may not be faked but just misleading due to holding the fish closer to the camera. And I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be seriously straining holding up a fish as big as that looks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted September 11, 2010 Report Share Posted September 11, 2010 and the size of the fish's eye vs. the humans eye. Human man dude is squatting by the looks of it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted September 11, 2010 Report Share Posted September 11, 2010 Think about how much damage to the bottom life of a waterway that a fish that big could do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malevolentsparkle Posted September 11, 2010 Report Share Posted September 11, 2010 is it dead? because it wouldn't make it any easier to hold if it was flopping around... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatfish Posted September 11, 2010 Report Share Posted September 11, 2010 Its a very brightly coloured, and great looking carp. I've caught ones that colour (on a fishing rod :oops:), though much smaller in the Waikato River. Its a very large fish for a koi, but I've no doubt the photo is real. He probably held it out in front slightly to make it look a little bigger. Theres a big fishery for trophy carp in Europe and it think the world record is about 90lb. They very big ones are often a lot uglier than that one. Theres plenty of carp fishing articles on the net with pictures of very big fish. http://www.dynamitebaits.com/index.php?id=963 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquila Posted September 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 Yes I'm sure the photo is taken in a way to exaggerate the size, and also probably a bit colour enhanced. The fish was caught in France and weighed 30lb (13.6kg). The link to the article is directly below the pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepsound Posted September 27, 2010 Report Share Posted September 27, 2010 I've been told about this story. At first, it looks fake. But this man is a real fisher and he's used to catch big fishes as we can see on his FB album. He caught that koï in september 2008 and dedicated press published it in early 2009. But the picture has been sold recently to the Dailymail and then, some others medias talked about it. It grew in scale (that's what we call in french : 'effet boule de neige', literally translated as snowball effect) and that's why it appeared recenty in the Google hot searches as "giant golfish" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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