It would be very unlikely to find the true wildie these day, what you need to remeber though is that a wildie is only a variety of the king strains we now catch, th wildie was the original import which my anchestors the monks kept and bred in stew ponds for the table, once the king varieties, the more recent imports, were intoruduced into UK waters and indeed the old wildie stew pond, the strain was then poluted, thus the old wildie was no longer, wildies are the allegely true British introduction, probably brought over originally by the Roamns, but most certainly continued introduction by the monks, the king varieties however were seperated from UK waters by time, and these were genetic modified varieties, modified by man to produced a scaless variety (the leather) for the table) other varieties, linears, mirrors, line carp etc are genetically on their way back to fully scaled common status, some lose their water and become fully scaled mirrors, but even these will eventually revert back, the true wildie variety has hugh shoulders and is torpedo shaped, i`ve caught one or two over the years, but the last one was nearly thirty years ago, you would know the difference, believe me. the koi is also another variety of cyprinus carpio, buit in this case genetically modified for its looks. I would be speptical of any true wildie being caught in the UK these days, plenty of long learn common around but the phenotype of the wildie is distinctive, you really have to see one of these things and feel it fight, yes they certainly are wild, the closest I`ve come to them are the long lean commons of the St Lawrence.
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