Originally posted by: wellsley on 2/12/2007 11:45:44 AM

Welcome to the BB murnion

Can't say that I've seen or heard of a white northern pike.

Originally posted by: murnion on 2/12/2007 11:32:18 AM

i was wondering if anyone has ever seen a white northern pike or have heard of one being caught before?

Originally posted by: murnion on 2/12/2007 12:09:28 PM

we caught one through the ice. it is 39 inches long and weighs 11 pounds. if i could figure out how to get the pictures to load on this page i would show it to you

Originally posted by: Stonecrusher on 2/12/2007 12:24:54 PM

There are different levels of albinoism, not all of them have the typical pink eyes, etc. In Russia there is a variation of the pike, the Amur pike (found pretty much exclusively in the Amur River system) that is silver in color.

Originally posted by: murnion on 2/17/2007 10:30:18 AM

send me an email at mmurnion@hotmail.com and i can email you the pictures if you want to see them

Originally posted by: BigDog68 on 2/17/2007 7:54:12 PM

Welcome to the club bb Murnion. I have never seen any species of albino fish, my email address is: bigdg68@wmconnect.com. If you don't mind, email me a pic, as i would like to see what one looks like. Thanks & have a good day from BigDog... <!--graemlin::cool:-->

Originally posted by: skoolboy63 on 2/20/2007 1:33:59 PM

I caught a Red Northern in Eastern Ontario about 1990. about 20" on ultralight tackle and 4 lb line and no leader. My partner filleted the thing before I could get a picture.

Originally posted by: davesett2000 on 2/20/2007 7:15:04 PM

For some MORE good reading, try this...

Yahoo Search results for "albino fish"

For more detailed results, add a + pike, or a + bass etc....to the "albino fish" search <!--graemlin:;)-->

Also try a search for "silver pike" <!--graemlin::)-->

Originally posted by: Frogfish on 2/23/2007 10:05:59 AM

Never heard of an albino pike!

Originally posted by: john h on 2/23/2007 12:29:24 PM

id love to see the pic can either mail it to me at tungbrassrack@hotmail.com or if someone gets it post it in here

Originally posted by: ChrisV on 3/12/2007 6:37:32 PM

Fisheries managers capture
‘albino’ musky during population survey

ONEIDA COUNTY -- For years, anglers have told wild tales of strange white muskellunge seen while fishing on some of the deeper lakes in the area. These ghostly fish reportedly grow to gigantic proportions and are much more elusive than a regular fish.

Few are seen and none are caught -- until now.

This spring, Department of Natural Resources fisheries crew caught a white musky in their fyke nets during population surveys. The musky’s skin was very white but had a slight greenish tint and was 32.7 inches long and 7.9 pounds, reports John Kubisiak, DNR fish biologist for Oneida County.

“The catch has been generating quite a buzz,” Kubisiak says.

John Lyons, a longtime DNR fisheries researcher who is updating the Fishes of Wisconsin, the seminal fisheries reference work by the late George Becker, considers the Oneida County fish an albino, although he notes that the musky has a small amount of pigment in the eyes and around the head.

“I’m not sure there’s an ‘official’ definition of an albino fish,” Lyons says. “In nature there can be a continuum of levels of pigmentation, and I’ve seen specimens of some species that are intermediate in pigmentation between normal and “fully” albino with pink eyes.”

Lyons says the Oneida County musky is “pretty close” to the fully albino end of the spectrum. “I’ve never seen nor heard of an albino musky, so it’s an unusual fish to say the least! But albinism is a rare but normal occurrence and is seen fairly regularly in white-tailed deer and squirrels.”

DNR crews, after measuring and weighing the fish and made a fin clip for future identification, released the musky. So the ghost fish will continue to haunt Oneida County waters and musky hunters, and the legend to grow.

There is a photo of this fish on the WI DNR website.
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer...050607.htm

Chris

Originally posted by: asb8mcc on 3/12/2007 6:46:48 PM

I have caught a silver pike before, I thought that it was a musky, but it had less than six sensory pores under its jaw per side, so it was a pike. I have researched and these do exhist. I don't know if it is the same as the white pike you are talking about, but it was silver or very light in color and lacks the horizontal bands on the side that most pike have. It was 30 inches.

Originally posted by: Lauztod on 3/12/2007 8:18:20 PM

I've heard of two albino pike in the last decade. One of them is stuffed and in one of the sporting good stores in my area(I can't remember which one). I remember there was an article about the last fish when it was caught. The fish was about 25 inches. The article stated that an albino this size is very rare because they stand out and therefore are usually eaten when they are young.

Originally posted by: mr bill on 3/14/2007 6:59:56 AM

yes it's true most albino fish are eatan as a youngen, because they do stand out and they are sort of freckish in nature because they will normally grow at a faster rate and have short life spands. i don't know why that is but that is the norm.

also there are 2 color fazess of notherns in michigan/along the great lakes and along the eastern states with connecting waters to the great lakes. colors are the normal greenish faze and this silver faze. i have read that the silver faze has been caught in several different waters in ont. can. also.



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Originally posted by: john h on 3/14/2007 11:14:43 AM

here is that albino pike

Originally posted by: hillbillyangler on 3/25/2007 1:14:01 PM

Nice catch , Never saw one in my life that was white.