Koi or Buffalo

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Desert Angler
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Koi or Buffalo
<p>Somebody recenty caught a large koi in a lake near Phoenix. This might not sound like a big deal, but from the video it does not look like a common carp (koi). I think that it looks more like a golden bigmouth buffalo.</p> <p>https://www.facebook.com/12news/videos/10155595493499015/</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>
drawer.bli
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Yep, a bigmouth. Arizona game

Yep, a bigmouth. Arizona game and fish think so too

andy
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Very weird

Looks like a bigmouth buffalo, but I can't wrap my head around it.

angry mongrel
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Definitely
Not a koi! Big mouth with some weird albinism or just plain influence! Koi needs the barbels man really cool catch though hope it didn't end up as field food!

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Amia Calva
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I didn't see any barbels
I agree on the barbels, that fish did not have any. Likely a weird pigmentation mutation of a buffalo. Too cool

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Corey
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Xanthic

Just had a similarly colored white bass reported from Big Stone. Xanthic fish are cool.