Fisherman Catches Legendary Giant Goldfish in France

Raphael Biagini didn’t know what he was getting himself in to when he set the hook on a fish in the south of France. As it turns out he had hooked in to the most legendary fish in the lake, and after a ten minute gruelling battle, he stepped in to the water and lifted this huge 30lb orange koi from the water. This fish was no stranger to the locals, in fact some had spent over six years trying to catch the legendary “giant goldfish.”

via Daily Mail

Thanksgiving 2005

I was lucky enough to spend his Thanksgiving for 2005 in Santa Cruz, a huge difference to the previous 11 months where he lived in Mexico. Staying at a friends house high in the California mountains I spent the majority of my time walking around in the woods and watching these wonderful Koi swimming around their little pond

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Blue Koi Tattoo

We’ve seen the blue koi before, but never in tattoo form. A good tattoo is a work of art, but a good coverup is a masterpiece! This tattoo used to be a very dark tiger, but was covered up by this blue koi from Thai Tattoo Studio.

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The Zombie Jesus Fish

This tattoo gets serious points for uniqueness. I wish I knew the story behind it, if anyone knows it please share!

Zombie +Jesus + Carp = Awesome.

via Blame It On The Voices

Fish A Japanese Obsession

I found this amazing documentary on YouTube about the Japanese obsession with fish. From start to finish it is very fun, tongue in cheek, and culturally informative. I had a great time watching it and dreaming of visiting and fishing all these places, but I couldn’t help but notice they left out Japanese bass fishing!

You don’t have to watch all nine parts if you don’t want to, but I put some descriptions and quotes in so you can get right to what sounds most interesting to you. However if you do, and I hope you do, watch the whole thing I guarantee you will learn some amazing things about Japan.

Part 1 of 9 : Here we meet the host and his team of local Japanese people that will help him through out his journey. Most of all we meet Aki, his guide. The first Japanese fishing experience is a restaurant with an interesting twice. There you can fish a pond in the middle of the restaurant and have your catch for dinner. The next day they head to to the Tsukiji fish market in search of Bluefin Tuna.

In the west we try to get as far away as possible from the idea that our pray was once alive. And in Japan they celebrate it.

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Blue Koi

This unique blue koi can be found in the pond below Maruoka Castle in Japan.

Check out this other blue koi on flickr.
via Moldy Chum