50 points if you can name this fish!

Fish from Arkansas and the USA
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50 points if you can name this fish!

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What kind of fish is this?
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Looks a little like a goldfish. There used to be a variety called a blue belly but not sure if it is that or not.
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Actually I caught this guy wild.
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It is not uncommon to find goldfish in the wild. People dump them and they do well in ponds and streams. It that what it is? Would be cool to be able to harvest a bunch of them from the wild and see if they reverted back to gold with care and not having to deal with predation if that is what it is. If it does not have barbels then it is not a koi or carp so must be a little goldie in the wild coloration.
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I don't know what it is. I took that picture a month ago and I forgot if it had barbels or not. I remember that it had really nice fins for a wild fish.
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It looks like a goldfish to me, too. People turn them loose and they breed. Youngsters are all brown, but most turn orange after a time. However, with each wild generation, and no selective breeding, more and more stay brown their whole lives-- reverting to the appearance of their wild ancestors. That one is little, so it may still turn.
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It is a goldfish. They go to that silver color when born into the wild. I occasionally find them when seining waterways.
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yep, I caught some a few years ago in the Cimarron river in Oklahoma and figured out that was what they were. It's ironic that of all the fish that fish and game regulate, goldfish are the ones that have been introduced the most and survive the most yet are legal in nearly all states... Kyle
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