Not only perches are found in local reservoirs. Another case proved that in the Novosibirsk region you can catch piranha.
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A fisherman named Maxim (he modestly does not name his surname), claims that a toothy predator came to him on July 8 in Ogurtsovo. Here as the Siberian described his luck at the fishing forum:
“Arrived at 17 o’clock, I took a spin and went looking for a predator. After four caught shurogayok as cut. I decided to sit. To fishing rod pecked a crucian, caught a dozen two on a worm, after which a bite poem.
Twenty minutes later, a bite. I hook and see in the water column red belly. I thought that crucian blood. Landing in the grass breaks down. I am behind him. I throw it ashore (here is a fragment we delete offers for reasons of censorship – approx. Ed.). What the monster? The body is flat, the belly to the head is red, the scales are silvery, the lower jaw is bulged, the teeth are like a person’s.
He had a bite of fishing line, a hook from his mouth sticks out. I think this is one of varieties of South American piranha. Local boys just passed, called friends, arranged a whole photo shoot. Offered sell for 500 rubles – did not agree. The trophy is outlandish though. After talking with a local fisherman, and he said that a week ago here they caught the same, only bigger. ”
According to Maxim, now the trophy takes its rightful place in freezer. But the fisherman does not know what to do with him further. Well this is not crucian carp, how to cook a toothy predator – it is not clear.
Piranha is definitely different from the typical inhabitants of the local reservoirs.
A photo from open sources
A photo from open sources
A photo from open sources
As soon as this news appeared on the Internet, Internet experts immediately in the find they recognized a fish called red pacu. Red pacu (Colossoma bidens) – truly piranha, but harmless to human, as it is a herbivore.
Despite the resemblance to piranha, red pacu, or the two-toed colossus hardly eats meat. In nature, the main diet make up nuts. The maximum length of adults is up to 88 cm and weight 25 kg The maximum recorded life expectancy is 28 years. It lives in South America, in the Amazon and its tributaries, has fishing value.
Red pacu popular aquarium fish
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By the way, they have been caught more than once in Russian reservoirs and the only “scientific” version of their appearance in our latitudes, which scientists could suggest, this is the carelessness of aquarists who supposedly release these fish into ponds and lakes when they give them bored.
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