Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - Just found a strange dead fish in my little pond

I was planting some things around my small ornamental pond a little while ago & saw a small dead fish floating. It's an odd color, sort of tan & brown. All of my regular fish are present & accounted for & much much larger than that one so I have no idea where it came from or why it died. I'm sure it hasn't been there before now or I'd have seen it. It's about 4" long. So not a teeny baby. ??? Any ideas?

I'm kinda freaked out. lol As always, your help & advice is greatly appreciated.

From the pic of the partially decomposed fish, I think it is likely one that was hatched in the pond. To me it looks more like a goldfish compared to much of anything else. Notice the elongated dorsal fin. You have any goldfish in the pond? Some offspring from goldfish are drab colored.

Post a pic?

Sometimes 1-2 dead fish show up for no apparent reason, perhaps more often in the cold months. If there aren't a whole bunch of corpses, I wouldn't worry too much.