January 11, 2011
Wisconsin's Bizarre Ghost Fish
 Among the incredible catches recorded in 2010, few were as rare as Wisconsin's Ghost Fish, a 51-inch muskie that grabbed the spotlight in the "St. Paul Pioneer Press" and other newspapers back in October.
Angler Paul Parise was fishing the lower Flambeau River, one of Wisconsin's muskie meccas, when he caught and released the trophy. That the fish was albino, which means it lacked pigments that give skin and eyes their color, is unusual. But what's most surprising is that the fish lived long enough to grow as large as it did without the coloration that allows normally colored fish to hide from predators and ambush prey.
Though albinism is certainly rare, especially in fish, Parise's incredible catch is not the first case of a ghost-white muskie being caught in Wisconsin. State Department of Natural Resources fisheries managers took what they believed to be a 33-inch albino muskie from a test net on Tomahawk Lake in 2005.
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Details on Parise's unusual day on the water. |
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