Help me identify the golden fish with the dark head in the photograph below. I saw this fish while trout fishing on the White River in Bull Shoals, AR this past weekend. It was the size of a rainbow trout and had a similar shape and movement to it as a rainbow as well.

 

Koi?

 

I don't know....this thing would shoot through the water faster than any carp I have ever seen swim....it would keep up with the trout when scared.....it swam just like a trout as well.....

 

Strange, there are several hybrids of rainbox trout that are golden. West Virginia has one species all there own, it is all gold, no dark head... that is pretty strange... does a golden cuthroat have a dark head?

 

Might be a Steelhead trout, some species of them have very dark heads.

 

It's a water swimming fish

 

The man with the pink truck strikes again!

 

Where did you spot this?

 

Wake up, PSS, and smell the

 

98 beat me to it

 

Maybe someone finally got sick of cleaning their aquarium?

 

Hard to tell from that picture. To bad you didn't catch it and take a picture.

 

He had to use the camera for something, so he took that pic.

 

I tried to clean it up but did not accomplish much:



Don't know if that will help.

 

It might be a partial palomeno. I have seen these in PA. Basically it is a rainbow trout that is gold. Sometimes the gold scale coloring doesn't completely cover the fish.

http://www.lancasterscuba.com/local_diving/palomino.htm