It depends on luck. when catching a magikarp, you have a 1/8000 chance of shiny.
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There is no way to get a Shiny Magikarp 100% of the time.
A golden Margikarp is a shiny margikarp, and as with other shiny Pokemon, there is only a 1/1892 chance of getting a Shiny(golden) magikarp. Breeding a Shiny Gyarados or a Shiny margikarp with another shiny Pokemon THAT CAN BREED WITH GYARADOS/MARGIKARP may have a higher chance of breeding a shiny magikarp. You can also trade the shiny gyarados from Pokemon Gold, Silver, and Crystal version.
The Gold Magikarp is a shiny Magikarp. It evolves into a red Gyarados. There is a 1 in 8912 chance that the Pokemon you encounter is shiny. This can be reduced to 1 in 2048 chance by using the Masuda method. This is basically when you breed a Magikarp with a foreign Ditto. The egg has a 1 in 2048 chance of being shiny.
these different color Pokemon are called shiny Pokemon, each Pokemon has a double that has a different color, like the "yellow magikarp", if you want one, use the old rod over and over again until you have a shiny magikarp.
only low leveled magikarp