Leucistic blue catfish

Ejohns107 · April 25, 2021, 07:23:48 PM

Well my wife caught this cat yesterday afternoon in a local spillway. 4 months pregnant and still out fishing me.

Bill B · April 25, 2021, 08:05:45 PM

Too cool on both aspects.....a wife how loves to fish and catches fish too! Bill

JoseCuervo · April 25, 2021, 10:36:08 PM

Crow · April 25, 2021, 10:45:54 PM

Good catch !!

oc1 · April 26, 2021, 05:44:11 AM

Good going. How often do those leucistic ones come along?

Ejohns107 · April 26, 2021, 06:10:15 PM

Quote from: oc1 on April 26, 2021, 05:44:11 AM
Good going. How often do those leucistic ones come along?

Talked to a biologist today about it they are uncommon but happen the rare part about this one is it's size. Like any other albino or leucistic animal it's pretty rare for them to mature due to the inability to hide from predators. From what he was saying.

Gobi King · April 27, 2021, 01:36:33 AM

Good Fishing!

nelz · April 27, 2021, 04:10:39 AM

Was it good eatin' ?

Benni3 · April 29, 2021, 02:48:19 AM

Fantastic trip,,,,,

you got a nice one,,,,,,,

philaroman · April 29, 2021, 02:55:02 AM

nice one
thought Leucistic meant patchy/spotty pigment/no-pigment
what makes yours not full-albino... pretty blue eyes?

Ejohns107 · April 29, 2021, 03:45:07 AM

Quote from: philaroman on April 29, 2021, 02:55:02 AM
nice one
thought Leucistic meant patchy/spotty pigment/no-pigment
what makes yours not full-albino... pretty blue eyes?

Pretty much. At first we thought it was albino for a while until we noticed the eyes were blue not pink. And generally alot of leustic are patchy or pi-bald coloration but not this one really was a unique catch for my wife.

philaroman · April 29, 2021, 04:07:05 AM

oh, wow -- thought it was weird photo angle & made a joke
they were actually BLUE? EXTRA-COOL!!!