Foot-and-a-half long carp found on dry farm

“We heard something splashing about in one of the pipes,” Schappacher said. “We’d had muskrats in there before and that’s what I thought this was.”

Suddenly, Schappacher’s son exclaimed it was a live carp caught in the pipe. Father and son picked it up, amazed at the size of the fish.

“The fish was about as long as I am wide,” Schappacher said.

Schappacher snapped a picture of the fish before releasing it back into a creek.

Although Schappacher farm isn’t located near a creek, the entire front farm has been flooded by heavy rains during the past month, Schappacher said.

“Just a crazy thing to find,” Schappacher said.

“How would a carp get into my field? This was a pretty good sized fish, too.”