Goldfish

[keepdiggin 9,561]

A local pond to me has just pulled out 30 goldfish anyone else seen feral goldfish in their local pond

[Daniel cain 45,480]

Yes mate,know quite a few places with them and these.( Local lakes are full of em)..I've emptied a few ponds over the yrs for folks and put them in a few different farm/quarry ponds...used to buy in ghost carp at 3/4" long,grow them on in  6ft tanks and drop them in various different  places...one fish I grew on is around 25/26 lb in weight now.....got to net a club pond next month and will be removing everything under 10lb....the carp will be moved to another pool,roach ,perch,Rudd,bream,tench are going into a  stretch  of river we have on some MOD land,it's not very wide but runs 10/14 ft in places...so hopefully it offers them some protection from predators and them f***ing Eastern Europeans

[forest of dean redneck 11,608]

There was goldfish in our local stream in same spot for couple of days till we had some heavy rain .

[Daniel cain 45,480]

23 minutes ago, forest of dean redneck said:

There was goldfish in our local stream in same spot for couple of days till we had some heavy rain .

Fish we be netting for the club in a few weeks are for the stretch  by your old place

[forest of dean redneck 11,608]

7 hours ago, Daniel cain said:

Fish we be netting for the club in a few weeks are for the stretch  by your old place

Think it needs all help it can get what with the poles from Hereford /Ross the otters and the Cormorants 

[South hams hunter 8,922]

Spot down here, old quarry pool in the woods that holds loads and golden orfes. They do OK because no one or nothing seems to bother them

[gnipper 6,475]

I wasn't sure if this was a goldfish or a coloured f1

[Jackknife 823]

55 minutes ago, gnipper said:

I wasn't sure if this was a goldfish or a coloured f1

. Not F1, no visible dots along lateral line

[Jackknife 823]

1 minute ago, Jackknife said:

. Not F1, no visible dots along lateral line

 

[Daniel cain 45,480]

Crucian/ghost hybrid?

[Nicepix 5,650]

There are a lot of carassin carp in the rivers out here in SW France. They are basically brown goldfish, but confusingly the have the same Latin name as crucians. 

[gnipper 6,475]

Aren't goldfish domestic crucians?

[jackthelad 1,893]

On 27/08/2021 at 17:19, W. Katchum said:

Used be loads in river Clyde when I was a kid, an when we was teens we used to fish an over grown farm pond that had a 2lb fish in it that we called the brown goldy, still unsure what it was maybe a hybrid, but maybe a goldy

I saw Devs pull a cracking goldfish out the forth and Clyde canal unhook it an toss it back I must have been about 16 never saw one out since some big carp in that nolly now don iv had a few broonies out it aswell