"I'll be honest: I didn't realize it was orange until I had it in the boat,” Fugate said to Fox News. Now, months later, scientific testing has confirmed that the fish is a very rare – very bright – bigmouth buffalo fish. "When I first saw it, I thought it was something sunken. As I got up closer it swam and came up a little bit and just had that big glow like it was just a big buffalo fish," Fugate said to Fox News. The largest in the North American sucker family, buffalofish can get up to 48 inches and around 40 pounds. The one Fugate caught clocked in at 38 inches and 33.1 pounds. However, the common freshwater fish is usually light in color.