OKLAHOMA CITY (KOCO) – This is not something a fisherman sees every day.
Members of Oklahoma City’s Fishery Team were out on the water on Monday and spotted a 14-pound koi in a pond.
“Running bet is that it either came in a fisherman’s bait bucket, or someone just had a big fish they didn’t want to keep around,” biologist John Rayfield said.
The 14-pound koi fish was spotted at Zoo Park, a popular pond for casting a line.
The team was electrofishing, a method used to survey fish stock every spring and fall when they spotted the fish.
“We got a nice big generator on a boat with these little antennas that go into the water, and we actually shock the fish and they come to the surface, and then we actually weigh and measure them and release them back into the water,” Rayfield said.
Rayfield said they relocated the fish to Will Rogers Gardens, and now the large koi is among his fishy friends, easy for the public to enjoy.
Rayfield said the koi is not an invasive species, but they wanted to keep it safe in a non-fishing pond.
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