goldfish

[Bottomfeeder]

Cool! I've never caught a Carp of any kind. Despite my efforts at Rocking Horse Ranch in Upstate NY. I saw my Dad hook one on a huge bread ball floating on the surface but somehow this Carp went thru 50 lb test line
The closest I came was also my most surprising catch in Clove Lake, Staten Island. I was using a chartruse grub with no jighead for Panfish when I hooked what I thought was a small Bass. It looked noting like a Bluegill. It was more elongated, and a goldish-green color. Upon closer inspection...Golden Shiner.
I'd love to catch a Goldfish. How was the fight? BTW the fish is round because she's gravid!
--"Help! It's eating me! Now he's tickling me!!"

 

[Mikeberg]

There is a monistary behind my house and when I first moved in it was full of giant goldfish, stunted bluegill, green sunfish, white crappie, and brown bullhead. Only the goldfish got big. It was a good place to take my kids ice fishing when they were little. Even though my hands would get cramped up after cleaning a mess of 4"-5" sunfish.
The preists gave me permission to add Largemouth bass to their pond (They said bass were in there a long time ago but were fished out.) Now there are some big bass & the sunfish & crappie averege is up at 7'' & 9". But the goldfish have almost dissapeared. The big ones lowly died off of old age and there seems to be no new ones, oddly the bullheads have dissapeard too. (Bass like them)

Now the pond is more fun for my older kids, but it would be less fun for younger kids. You should have seen there faces as they pulled out colorfull goldfish from 1 to 3 lbs.

Mike

 

[gomezladdams]

Nice catch!
I used to catch goldfish all the time where I grew up on long island.Silver lake,devils pond, loft lake in baldwin were full of big goldfish 30 years ago,have no idea about now.

 

[flemming]

nice catch

 

[andyjs]

Druu.. what? lol
someone released her, how should that make her color less vibrant?

A lot of feral goldfish don't have that great of color if they've been wild for generations. A couple summers ago, I took a field biology class on Lake Erie and we caught hundreds of goldfish and most were a brown to muted yellow color like most wild common carp as the bright ones had been naturally selected out in the wild. Of course with released specimens like that it's a totally different story. Some even end up even more vibrant from being exposed to natural sunlight and good live food.

And it shouldn't be surprising to find goldfish in almost any body of water. They've been in the pet trade for so long they've been released basically everywhere.

 

[Danyal]

goldfish are a blast to catch, my biggest was just shy of 18"

 

[Red Devil]

LOL. You could take it that way . It's a neighborhood lake, governed by a lake association. Along these lines, you could say I own ~1/200 of the lake. How's that?

HarleyK

great goldfish...wow never saw one so big.

 

[VVateverzYo]

i see those in the pond next to my house

 

[MDK500]

Never seen anyone catch a goldfish...

 

[Bottomfeeder]

in Clove Lake...one of my favorite fishing haunts in early summer...has BIG Koi Carp, over 2 ft long. But they are rare and mostly like corn! I saw one right near shore once. i casted a huge breadball at it





and ended up with a Catfish. Goldfish are gamefish just like Carp. Also some fancy Goldfish almost like rare Goldfish Koi hybrid...seen em online...floated up dead. i almost want to have a tank pre-cycled in case i catch a released pet cuz there's everything in there. eels probably from fish markets and there's a rumor going around of Snakeheads...