I've been involved with baseball my whole life and as a result I'm am probably one of the most superstitious people on earth. There is no chance I would shoot an albino or even a piebald deer and same if I caught an albino fish. I fear the curse...

I've never heard the 'never shoot a buck again' spin. In my camps it's been that you go blind. There are stories of guys who know a guy who knew a guy that took an albino and scratched his eyes on a branch while dragging out in the dark.. you get the idea. That being said, bring on the white deer!

True albino fish have pink eyes, although there is a white strain of rainbow trout that biologists have developed that is a genetic mutation instead of albino. All these fish come from 1 mutant fish that was found, interesting story. These fish are commonly stocked at least in the west, but are not albinos.

I would let it go. It would be a lot prettier swimming than it would be stuck on a wall. I would probably blind it with a lot of photos first though. Nice catch!

I would take it but only once in my lifetime. There's an albino ground squirrel that's got a bullseye on his head running round my property. I'd also like to take a piebald buck but they'd have to be spectacular animals once in a lifetime trophies for me to be willing to take them out of nature.

I take this scientific, if maybe a little screwy approach -

Albinism comes from a "bad" genotype whose phenotypic expression results in a disadvantaged morphology...

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Being a white fish when you're not supposed to be is rough. If the fish has overcome this disadvantage, my guess is that the rest of his genes must be really good ones. The fish will pass on all these great genetics, as well as that one little bad gene, but the albinism alleles are very recessive and not likely to express in many, if any individual offspring. The good "normal" genes that it passes are much more likely to show up, though.

So, you might just be helping the population out by letting this big guy or gal go.

I would release it, hands down. I would want a picture though, I knew someone who saw an albino deer and made a wish, and I like the idea. But in some lakes in Utah, I think, they plant truckloads of albino rainbow trout, but I'd still like to catch one. But man, an albino sailfish sounds really cool.

To keep or not? That's a tough call and not one I'm going to make since I've never worn those shoes. I've seen some pie-bald deer that I would take but because they so beautiful I'd have to dig into savings to have a full body mount. To do a chest mount would be ridiculous and may as well let them walk, same with the fish.

Actually I believe it is old indian lore that the appearance of a white animal meant good hunting. Shooting the white animal means poor hunting in the future which back then meant starvation and death. The original white animal was the great white buffalo.

You can kill them in the CWD zone in wisconsin.

I would give the fish it's due credit it managed to live a full life, and would likely keep it, and mount it. Not only is it a rare trophy but the memory of a lifetime to have caught something as extroardinary as a albino fish.

i think taking an albino fish to bass pro is a good idea because you and lots of other people can see it and they give you a replica mount.

ive helped catch a albino catfish before it was about 5 to 6 feet. we caught it in a pond. we let it go. we caught it off a ball of ham with bread wrapped around it. and we packed the bait pretty tight so it didnt come off the hook.