Your catch looks considerably cooler in color than the photos in the google link you posted. A serious bruiser!

It really does!

I had the extra cool photo filter turned on on my smartphone lol.

I would of loved to get a picture of me holding it but I was the only one at the park. Hopefully we will meet again.

Now that is a pretty cool catch. Is that what they also call a "knife fish" ?? 

I think the knife fish is different.  All the pics i have seen of that the fish have big circles on them but the body shape is very similar

Knife fish are very cool, I used to have a couple large ones in a 55 gal. aquarium.  They look much different than the mentioned fish.

 

Someone dumped an arrowana that outgrew their tank.

Couldn't you fetched a pretty penny for Arowana  that size? I remember they were quite expensive to buy in Japan when I lived there.

Japan?  You're thinking of red arowana.  Different species.  Red are from Asia, silver from South America.

What if the stars align and someone else releases another arowana in that pond.... Then they reproduce and hey ho presto we have arowana in the U.S!

Wonder if that would be bad....

They are paternal mouth brooders, which means the male carries the eggs in his mouth until they hatch.

They are paternal mouth brooders, which means the male carries the eggs in his mouth until they hatch.

Hmm. I wonder if they had a female in the tank.

If they can be controlled well, we may have another exotic sport fish!

Apparently there are records of these fish turning up in Florida, although not many. According to USGS there aren't any self sustaining populations.

 

http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?speciesID=799

Wow, thanks for the link. They've been found outside of Florida as well. Interesting

Wow, thanks for the link. They've been found outside of Florida as well. Interesting

The ones caught in Lake Merced and Lake Berryessa in CA were news to me. I grew up fishing both of those lakes.

They can add Kansas to that list.

http://kdwpt.state.ks.us/KDWPT-Info/News/News-Archive/2013-Weekly-News/7-25-13/LAKE-SHAWNEE-ANGLER-CATCHES-ALIEN-FISH

Apparently there are records of these fish turning up in Florida, although not many. According to USGS there aren't any self sustaining populations.

 

http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?speciesID=799

Lake Shawnee??? Dang thats where the state record trout came out of !!

That thing is down right scary looking!  Like straight out of a movie!  Are you near Lake Placid?