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calimary

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4. !!!!!ROFL!!!!!

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 17, 2013, 08:08 PM

Jan 2013

Dang - that's about as big as our oversized, overgrown goldfish is! My kid won it at his school carnival when he was maybe four years old. He's 20 now. And it's still with us!

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This is why you flush them: Fisherman catches massive goldfish [View all] Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 OP

Give a man a goldfish and he eats for a day jberryhill Jan 2013 #1

!!!!!ROFL!!!!! calimary Jan 2013 #4

Give Glenn Beck a Goldfish and ... JoePhilly Jan 2013 #23

Now that's funny. N/T GreenStormCloud Jan 2013 #28

Well done, indeed. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2013 #32

Don't feed them after midnight! n/t PoliticAverse Jan 2013 #2

nice fish. all goldfish are another type of carp if you ever go to the tidal basin in DC loli phabay Jan 2013 #3

Carp is one of the toughest to catch on purpose fresh water fish out there madokie Jan 2013 #8

it depends on how you fish i love carp fishing and use the euro method loli phabay Jan 2013 #11

Yes I can imagine madokie Jan 2013 #14

mid thirties is the biggest ive got so far with thirty five as my pb loli phabay Jan 2013 #17

I hope you have some fun. madokie Jan 2013 #18

its the best way to spend twenty hours i can think off. now im in the mood to go next days off loli phabay Jan 2013 #19

Reminds me of our crucian carp here in the UK. dipsydoodle Jan 2013 #10

thanks but ive fished with hair rigs for years. also got all the fox alarms etc as i take my carp s loli phabay Jan 2013 #13

i would love to find somewhere in the mid atlantic to fish for tench as this is another fish i love loli phabay Jan 2013 #15

At the risk of making you groan dipsydoodle Jan 2013 #20

damn nice fish. i always wanted to fish for mary but i doubt it will ever happen loli phabay Jan 2013 #21

No, not Goldie! surrealAmerican Jan 2013 #5

You can buy gold fish for bait in the bait stores here madokie Jan 2013 #6

I bought some little 1-inch "feeder" goldfish for my turtle once. I pardoned four of them. slackmaster Jan 2013 #9

I pardoned....... dipsydoodle Jan 2013 #12

LOL madokie Jan 2013 #16

Aren't goldfish carp? Kingofalldems Jan 2013 #7

I'm not sure. Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 #22

Just looked it up and yes Kingofalldems Jan 2013 #25

Goldfish are carp the way ... surrealAmerican Jan 2013 #24

My dad grew bigger goldfish in the backyard pond Nikia Jan 2013 #26

Id flush live goldfish as much as throw out chia pets. Separation Jan 2013 #27

+1 A Little Weird Jan 2013 #33

I think I saw this movie... pinboy3niner Jan 2013 #29

Giant Goldfish reports are very common. Stinky The Clown Jan 2013 #30

lol Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 #31