Pond Giant

[moguy1973]

Maybe a minnow that someone disposed of their minnow bucket into the lake that grew to that size?  Some minnows are big heads.  Luckily they aren't supposed to be able to reproduce in still water.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Plenty of carp stocked in Carondelet Park.  Looks like Horshoe Lake.  I have caught a few there as a kid.   I would have thrown it back.  It is a stocked pond that is in the middle of the city.  No worries at all about that fish being able to go anywhere.   The kids probably have seen it, and count on feeding it. 

The closest river is River DesPeres, which is an overflow from the Mississippi River.   It's really more of a sewer drainage.  Locals talk about the Brown Trout in there.  There is no connection to the lake(pond).  

[top_dollar]

18 hours ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said:

Plenty of carp stocked in Carondelet Park.  Looks like Horshoe Lake.  I have caught a few there as a kid.   I would have thrown it back.  It is a stocked pond that is in the middle of the city.  No worries at all about that fish being able to go anywhere.   The kids probably have seen it, and count on feeding it. 

The closest river is River DesPeres, which is an overflow from the Mississippi River.   It's really more of a sewer drainage.  Locals talk about the Brown Trout in there.  There is no connection to the lake(pond).  

Yup horseshoe lake.  Its right by my house, and loaded with dink bass.   There are other coi/goldfish looking monsters swimming around there as well.   I see em all the time nosing around the shallows. 

[MOPanfisher]

Likely I would have ended it's life, but that is way overshadowed by the fun of catching an unexpected big fish.  I once caught a probably 50# grass carp in a 7 acre pond on a rapala and medium weight spinning rod.  And last night I had the living crap scared out of me while crappie fishing.  Walking the bank and out of the back of a covery there was a splash and a wave being pushed by something, figured it was a beaver and sort of forgot him.  A little bit later a pair of buffalo nearly ran into my feet, and saw me just as I saw them.and EXPLODED out of there.  Smaller one was maybe 15, boffer one looked twice that big as I was wiping water out of my eyes and wondering if I had wet myself.  Surprise big fish are always interesting at least.

[Quillback]

Could've used that bighead in this skit.

Warning: it is really stupid.

 

[JUNGLE JIM 1]

That fish and another one just like it have been swimming in that lake for close to ten years. Duckweed took over the lake and when some genius decided to shut the water and fountain off it became a solid mat of duckweed, lake looked like a huge putting green on a golf course. When duckweed takes over a lake fish can't get enough oxygen and they suffocate.  Lake suffered two fish kills and the second one which happened five days ago wiped out 99% of the fish in the lake. Did see one of these giants floating dead, .. Only thing that might have survived are some big carp and minnows.  Such a waste, this lake had potential for growing state record redear sunfish. I caught two 13 inchers last year in the spring that were 1.5- 1.75 lbs. I have been fishing this lake for over 50 years and I'm ticked off because this could have been prevented. This lake is dead.

[Johnsfolly]

On 4/11/2019 at 3:28 PM, Quillback said:

Could've used that bighead in this skit.

Warning: it is really stupid.

 

We love Monty Python in the Folly household😀! So it's all good. No telling how many times the family has watched the Search for the Holy Grail. Don't have enough fingers or toes 😌.

[Gavin]

The fish slap dance is a classic! Love the Pythons.

[top_dollar]

On 8/25/2019 at 9:11 AM, JUNGLE JIM 1 said:

That fish and another one just like it have been swimming in that lake for close to ten years. Duckweed took over the lake and when some genius decided to shut the water and fountain off it became a solid mat of duckweed, lake looked like a huge putting green on a golf course. When duckweed takes over a lake fish can't get enough oxygen and they suffocate.  Lake suffered two fish kills and the second one which happened five days ago wiped out 99% of the fish in the lake. Did see one of these giants floating dead, .. Only thing that might have survived are some big carp and minnows.  Such a waste, this lake had potential for growing state record redear sunfish. I caught two 13 inchers last year in the spring that were 1.5- 1.75 lbs. I have been fishing this lake for over 50 years and I'm ticked off because this could have been prevented. This lake is dead.

I noticed this too.  It was completely choked out.  That's pretty sad.  Hopefully in a few years it will rebound.  When I was up there a few weeks ago I saw crayfish by the 1000s all over the shallows picking through the vegetation right at the surface.  I'd never seen anything like it.  

[JUNGLE JIM 1]

The crayfish in the lake weren't getting enough oxygen either so they moved up to the shoreline,some totally out of the water to breathe. A lot of them didn't survive. They repaired one of the drains in the lake and put in a water pump on the south side of the lake but still haven't touched the duckweed. I walked the lake and didn't see even a minnow, water is super clear.