There's trout. There's koura. There's the occasional catfish.
It seems there's the occasional goldfish too, as a Taupo man discovered when he came across a 30cm-long dead orange fish floating in the lake at Two Mile Bay last week.
Local real estate agent and keen fisherman Grant Bayley was out for a morning walk when he came across the expired fish on the lakeshore, and he immediately worried that it might be a koi carp, a destructive fish species which degrades waterways.
"I saw this fish floating on the edge of the lake and I'm a pretty keen angler and I thought it didn't look right so I went and got my net and scooped it out," says Grant.
Grant asked a friend passing by to take a picture, before taking the fish home to call DOC. In the meantime his friend made contact with local environmental advocate Dave 'Didymo Dave' Cade, and Grant soon received a call from DOC freshwater ranger Brenda Lawson, who came to inspect the fish. Although she thought it was likely to be a goldfish, she sent it to a DOC fishery scientist in Turangi, who confirmed she was correct.