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Now That’s a Celery Farm Fish!
Taken Saturday by the Warden's Watch. Could it be the Loch Appert Monster?
No one is safe! Can anybody help with an ID?
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It looks like a sucker of some sort of sucker; probably some type of carp or coy. The flooding that occurs around the celery farm is the reason there are carp and coy in Lake Appert. The streams around the neighborhood flood into peoples coy ponds and they are carried to the nearest lakes or sometimes wider and deeper areas in the streams. The fish then grow fairly quickly according to the size of the waterway.
For instance, I caught a 15 pound common carp and a ten pound white coy in the saddle river across the street from Waterford Gardens. They were most likely dumped in the waterway during a storm.
It is hard to tell the size of the fish from the picture but weather it is one pound or fifty pounds, it is harmless to humans. -
Looks like a Carp.
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Fred sez “Sucker.”
Check out River Bottom Sucker. . .
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Mr. Fish
It looks like a sucker of some sort of sucker; probably some type of carp or coy. The flooding that occurs around the celery farm is the reason there are carp and coy in Lake Appert. The streams around the neighborhood flood into peoples coy ponds and they are carried to the nearest lakes or sometimes wider and deeper areas in the streams. The fish then grow fairly quickly according to the size of the waterway.
For instance, I caught a 15 pound common carp and a ten pound white coy in the saddle river across the street from Waterford Gardens. They were most likely dumped in the waterway during a storm.
It is hard to tell the size of the fish from the picture but weather it is one pound or fifty pounds, it is harmless to humans.
Carolyn U
Looks like a Carp.
Deedee Burnside
Fred sez “Sucker.”
Check out River Bottom Sucker. . .