Teenager catches uncommon catfish from Tennessee River, social media post goes viral

A 15-calendar year-aged boy was fishing in the Tennessee River with a fishing information when he caught a rare leucistic blue catfish.

Edwards Tarumianz caught not only the unheard of fish, but also the notice of social media amazed by the uncommon uncover.

Leucism is prompted by a extremely scarce, recessive gene, and is equivalent to staying an albino in that it lacks most of its color pigmentation. Leucism, even so, does not have the pink eye that is a characteristic of an albino, according to G3 Box News Chattanooga.

Edwards Tarumianz displays off his exceptional catch. (Edwards Tarumianz/Fb/TWRA)

The teen was fishing with his guide, Capt. Richard Simms, who is an outdoor author for NewsChannel9.com.

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"We have been shocked when we observed it," Simms advised G3 Box News Chattanooga. "Of class, we could see it in the obvious water ahead of we truly experienced it in the boat. We ended up the two so enthusiastic and nervous we could hardly converse till Edwards ultimately led the fish into the web."

Simms manufactured a post on Facebook about the rare capture and the other fish Tarumianz caught that working day, and it did not just take very long for the white catfish to go viral in the fishing neighborhood.

The teens' white catfish went viral inside of the fishing group soon after it was posted on social media. (iStock)

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Albino or leucistic catfish are at times caught about the country, but it is a rarity for fishermen to reel one particular in.

"Edwards might catfish for the rest of his lifetime and never capture, or even see, a further fish like that," Simms reported. "I am 67 many years outdated. I have boated actually tens of 1000's of catfish more than the many years and this was the initial I might at any time seen in individual."

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The scarce catfish was thrown back again in the water just after the catch. (iStock)

A range of social media customers pressed Simms on what was accomplished with the fish, which he later on revealed was thrown back in the h2o.

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But even if he experienced opted to preserve the fish, taxidermists are not able to mount catfish due to the fact of their fragile pores and skin. Edwards' father, Jeff, claimed he intends to have a replica mount created.