Carp that rivals Trout in Beauty

[MoCarp]

[MoCarp]

 

[MoCarp]

This is a mirror bloodline that is bred in the Carolinas here in the states and shipped back to the UK to be grown out for sale

the fish are sexed and shipped back to be grown out at about 7-8#

if you could stock just female bass imagine how many more lunkers 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[tjm]

That's just nasty looking to me. Reminiscent of what I imagine leprosy could do, or radiation.  Are those fish still edible? 

[MoCarp]

4 hours ago, tjm said:

That's just nasty looking to me. Reminiscent of what I imagine leprosy could do, or radiation.  Are those fish still edible? 

Haters gonna hate 😑

yeah some Eastern European dudes hacked fish to eat in some UK venues and got beaten up and almost killed over it 😬 

jacking fish over there is an issue considered gout expensive they are

[tjm]

I don't hate at all, I just know what I see there isn't beautiful. Fish are only good to eat or use as fertilizer, so those uk haters that beat up the hungry guys are misguided.

[MoCarp]

3 hours ago, tjm said:

those uk haters that beat up the hungry guys are misguided.

Yeah it was wrong to attack them when calling the law was the right course of action... the mental image of them being violated with the fish billy is particularly horrible...though fish getting jacked dropped considerably after the attack’s 

[Johnsfolly]

Those are great koi pond or aquaria fish.  Not sure I would want to see them freely swimming our creeks and lakes. Wouldn't hurt my feelings to catch a big mirrored fish.

Hard to rival naturally selected colorful fishes like Missouri darters.

[MoCarp]

Or these

[MoCarp]

As a side note Cyprinus carpio

Which is what a koi is a selectively bred carp for color and in some cases fan tails and fins

 

have been freely swimming in our waters for over 140 years, Stocked on purpose in all the river systems long before the dams were built 

 

koi are pretty pricy unless the get let go or wash out pretty rare catch but it happens