The lazy amphibian who hitched a lift with a goldfish

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Lazy: This frog was too tired to swim across the pond... so hitched a lift on board a passing fish


A gardener was stunned when he found a frog getting a piggyback from a goldfish in his pond.

Pensioner Tony Butler rushed for his camera and captured the pair gliding across the water in his garden in Paignton, Devon.

He snapped a picture of the bizarre scene and then used a net to haul both out of the pond and separated them because he was worried the fish may be injured.


Hop on: Surprised owner Tony Butler thinks the frog hopped its way into the garden in search of a mate


Mr Butler, 75, and his wife Joyce have two ponds at their home in South Devon, one for fish and one for newts and toads.

He thinks the frog had hopped its way into the garden and moved to the wrong pond in search of a mate.

Mr Butler said: 'I had heard the frog croaking for a fortnight before this happened so I guess he was looking for a mate.

'I went to look at the pond and saw it on top of my biggest goldfish.

'I've heard that frogs can attack fish in this way but I've never seen anything like it before.

'The frog was there for quite a while and I began to worry about my goldfish so a pulled them both out with a net and found the frog had clamped himself on top of it.

'I've no idea where the frog came from. We live in the middle of Paignton and somehow it found our garden and found the pond.

'I put the fish back into the pond and she looks none the worse for the ordeal although if we hadn't done something she could have croaked.'

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The lazy amphibian who hitched a lift with a goldfish

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Lazy: This frog was too tired to swim across the pond... so hitched a lift on board a passing fish


A gardener was stunned when he found a frog getting a piggyback from a goldfish in his pond.

Pensioner Tony Butler rushed for his camera and captured the pair gliding across the water in his garden in Paignton, Devon.

He snapped a picture of the bizarre scene and then used a net to haul both out of the pond and separated them because he was worried the fish may be injured.


Hop on: Surprised owner Tony Butler thinks the frog hopped its way into the garden in search of a mate


Mr Butler, 75, and his wife Joyce have two ponds at their home in South Devon, one for fish and one for newts and toads.

He thinks the frog had hopped its way into the garden and moved to the wrong pond in search of a mate.

Mr Butler said: 'I had heard the frog croaking for a fortnight before this happened so I guess he was looking for a mate.

'I went to look at the pond and saw it on top of my biggest goldfish.

'I've heard that frogs can attack fish in this way but I've never seen anything like it before.

'The frog was there for quite a while and I began to worry about my goldfish so a pulled them both out with a net and found the frog had clamped himself on top of it.

'I've no idea where the frog came from. We live in the middle of Paignton and somehow it found our garden and found the pond.

'I put the fish back into the pond and she looks none the worse for the ordeal although if we hadn't done something she could have croaked.'

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We're going to need a bigger bowl! Fisherman catches massive 30lb 'goldfish'

By Mail Foreign Service

What a whopper! Angler Raphael Biagini got the surprise of his life when he landed this gigantic koi carp on a fishing trip to France. At 30lb it's thought to be the largest of its kind ever caught in the wild


It might look like an enormously generous fairground prize.

But no goldfish bowl in the world could contain this catch.

The orange koi carp weighs 30lb - the same as an average three-year-old girl - and is thought to be one of the largest of its kind ever captured.

It took Raphael Biagini ten minutes to reel the creature out of a lake in the south of France - moments after fellow anglers told him they had spent six years trying to snare the legendary 'giant goldfish'.

Mr Biagini, pictured, said: 'To begin with, we couldn't tell what was at the end of the line, but we knew it was big.

'The fish was a good fighter, but not enough to win.'

After an impromptu photoshoot, the 30-year-old from Montpellier returned his prize catch to the water.


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