What fish is this please?

[Johnno107]

Hi

I caught this fish earlier today, I don't usually fish for anything big and this is my biggest fish yet, it weighed 5 pounds 10 ounces.

http://img159.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image001im6.jpg

Someone said it could be a small common carp?

 

[matt]

someone is right common carp

 

[Johnno107]

Thanks, that makes it my first ever carp!

 

[matt]

Congratulations I hope its the first of many

 

[Steve H 43]

nice one johnno, they just get bigger from now on, you will remember that fish all your angling life, steve