Greetings all! Thought you would like to see these pics. During an outing at Inanda Dam last year my FIL (father in law) David Brown (aka: Captain Junebug) caught this bass on a 5” Junebug Big Bite Bait Jerk Minnow. I have often heard our piscatorial challengers being referred to as , Green Fish . Largies, Black Bass and even Big Mouth but this one was an eye opener for me…a Golden Bass. At first, as you probably feel right now, I thought he was taking the P155 out of me and had ‘played’ with the pics , but no , it’s as real as it looks. I have seen this albinism in carp species (I spent many hours targeting the UK’s Ghost Carp on fly tackle), but this is the best and only specimen in our Micropterus salmoides genome I have witnessed. Very interesting that despite its colour abnormality the bass has survived to a decent weight of around 1.3kgs. Judging by its normal eye colour I believe it is not a full ‘albino bass’.
Amazing colours in the tail and skull .The rare Golden Bass was safely released. Keep well. God Bless !
Wayne Easton Durban, South Africa
