Quinte gold but not what you think

DanElliot · **Joined:** Mon Apr 08, 2002 8:59 am **Posts:** 4329

http://www.grindtv.com/fishing/bizarre-gold-largemouth-bass-caught-in-bass-tourney/#6HSWvjqlKAQPH4Lu.97

Comit · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2015 7:42 pm

if I remember correctly someone posted a gold bass either last year or the year before on here that was caught near Belleville. Cant seem to find it in my search.

update... Found it it was FishinMagician...

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18433&p=103446&hilit=albino#p103446

DanElliot · **Joined:** Mon Apr 08, 2002 8:59 am **Posts:** 4329

Good find. Seems to me it must be genetic?

Parksy · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:20 am

I've talked to Dr. Bruce Tufts at the Tufts Lab at Queen's and that's the popular thinking Dan. Dr. Tufts believes there could be as many as a couple with a genetic mutation born each year in the Bay of Quinte but because of the colour, they rarely make it past the initial year as they stand out like a beacon to predators. Hoping to have a submission in the next Ontario Out of Doors magazine regarding this once in a lifetime catch....

mrdylan · **Joined:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:53 pm **Posts:** 64

Since it's gold it's not Albino then right? Never seen anything like that.

Hutchy · **Joined:** Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:06 pm **Posts:** 399

Did any of the anglers try to make three wishes? :lol:

Parksy · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2015 9:40 am

mrdylan wrote:

Since it's gold it's not Albino then right? Never seen anything like that.

According to the biology department at Queen's, you are correct.
A lack of blue pigment (Yellow and blue make green) leaves the just the yellow molecules in the scale cell structure.
An albino would lack both blue and yellow molecules.

FishinMagician · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2015 9:08 pm

It would be unreal if they were the same fish!!

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