Author Topic: Albino ling (Read 3774 times)

perkhunter · « **on:** Feb 21, 2019, 08:34 AM »

Fished with a buddy who caught this albino ling. I believe he said the game and fish said that this is pretty rare...Maybe 1 in 200,000 to 250,000 ling? Pretty cool!

Noon · « **Reply #1 on:** Feb 21, 2019, 09:02 AM »

Super cool! I bet that thing looked amazing in the water.

Raquettedacker · « **Reply #2 on:** Feb 21, 2019, 09:12 AM »

Very cool...

PikeKing23 · « **Reply #3 on:** Feb 21, 2019, 09:16 AM »

Wow. I'm surprised that thing made it to adulthood. Albinos in the wild usually get eaten......early! Even many albino predators can not survive, as they rely on camouflage to hunt, in many cases. Definitely cool. Here in CT our state record channel cat was an albino.

zwiggles · « **Reply #4 on:** Feb 21, 2019, 09:21 AM »

That is really cool. Thanks for sharing!

perkhunter · « **Reply #5 on:** Feb 21, 2019, 09:38 AM »

Quote from: PikeKing23 on Feb 21, 2019, 09:16 AM

Wow. I'm surprised that thing made it to adulthood. Albinos in the wild usually get eaten......early! Even many albino predators can not survive, as they rely on camouflage to hunt, in many cases. Definitely cool. Here in CT our state record channel cat was an albino.

That was my thought too, the thing was glowing all the way up to the hole. How he was able to get anything to eat I'll never know, but he was in good shape!

WYOBEAR · « **Reply #6 on:** Feb 21, 2019, 01:24 PM »

Did it have red eyes? From the other picture of it it looks like a black eye. Albinos usually have red or pink eyes. You think it might just be a skin pigment anomaly like a color phase bear or even a white moose or deer? Did the G&F see the fish and say it was an albino?

ClearCreek · « **Reply #7 on:** Feb 22, 2019, 05:34 PM »

Quote from: WYOBEAR on Feb 21, 2019, 01:24 PM

Did it have red eyes? From the other picture of it it looks like a black eye. Albinos usually have red or pink eyes. You think it might just be a skin pigment anomaly like a color phase bear or even a white moose or deer? Did the G&F see the fish and say it was an albino?

I am with WYOBEAR on this one; if it did not have red or pink eyes it was not a true albino.

Interesting fish, no doubt!

ClearCreek

perkhunter · « **Reply #8 on:** Feb 23, 2019, 10:53 PM »

Quote from: ClearCreek on Feb 22, 2019, 05:34 PM

I am with WYOBEAR on this one; if it did not have red or pink eyes it was not a true albino.

Interesting fish, no doubt!

ClearCreek

Yeah I'm not sure of the degree of albinism, I may be wrong but the fish biologist was the one who said it was albino after seeing the pic, he wound up giving it to a taxidermist who was going to enter it in some taxidermy exhibit or something.

dubob · « **Reply #9 on:** Feb 24, 2019, 08:06 AM »

Quote from: perkhunter on Feb 23, 2019, 10:53 PM

Yeah I'm not sure of the degree of albinism, I may be wrong but the fish biologist was the one who said it was albino after seeing the pic, he wound up giving it to a taxidermist who was going to enter it in some taxidermy exhibit or something.

I would suggest that the biologist got it wrong. I would further suggest that what you see here is a leucistic fish.

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Leucism: Condition in which all types of skin pigment are reduced due to defects in pigment cell differentiation with the normal result a partially (often referred to as 'pied' or 'piebald'), or more rarely, completely white animal. Differs from albinism, which is caused by a lack of melanin only, in several ways, with one of the most apparent being that albino animals typically have red eyes whereas leucism does not normally affect eye colour. Pronounced, and sometimes spelled, leukism.

perkhunter · « **Reply #10 on:** Feb 25, 2019, 04:23 PM »

Yeah I don't really care either way but it was pretty cool

1MOFISH · « **Reply #11 on:** Feb 25, 2019, 04:35 PM »

Quote from: perkhunter on Feb 21, 2019, 08:34 AM

Fished with a buddy who caught this albino ling. I believe he said the game and fish said that this is pretty rare...Maybe 1 in 200,000 to 250,000 ling? Pretty cool!

beautiful fish!
GOD BLESS
mo

IrishnId · « **Reply #12 on:** Dec 27, 2020, 12:18 PM »

Mounter fish for sure!

JohnnyO19 · « **Reply #13 on:** Dec 28, 2020, 02:15 PM »

That is pretty cool looking! quite the surprise

Tacofish · « **Reply #14 on:** Jan 03, 2021, 11:01 AM »

Awesome fish!

Super-ice-bird · « **Reply #15 on:** Jan 03, 2021, 06:21 PM »

Wow! That is cool!

Adkrs · « **Reply #16 on:** Jan 16, 2021, 08:56 PM »

This is one of the coolest things I've seen icefishing! Awesome catch!

Cargo · « **Reply #17 on:** Jan 17, 2021, 07:41 AM »

I have caught a bunch of ling in my day and can't say i have ever caught a white common (molva) ling. That is a beautiful fish. Thanks for sharing.

river_scum · « **Reply #18 on:** Jan 17, 2021, 07:46 AM »

great looking fish id have rep made of it.

ClearCreek · « **Reply #19 on:** Jan 18, 2021, 12:00 PM »

Quote from: Cargo on Jan 17, 2021, 07:41 AM

I have caught a bunch of ling in my day and can't say i have ever caught a white common (molva) ling. That is a beautiful fish. Thanks for sharing.

Cargo:

The fish shown in the photo in this thread is a leucistic burbot.

From Wikipedia: The common ling (Molva molva is a North Atlantic species found in the further eastern coast of Canada, southern Greenland, Iceland, and the north-eastern Atlantic from the Barents Sea, around the coasts of the UK.

It gets confusing because in Wyoming we use the names burbot and ling interchangeably.

ClearCreek

Cargo · « **Reply #20 on:** Jan 18, 2021, 02:04 PM »

ClearCreek, Thanks for the info.

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