Josh Rogers released the largemouth bass back into Beaver Lake in the Ozark Highlands.
Stein said the unique color of Rogers’ fish is due to a natural but rare genetic anomaly known as xanthochroism., is a “genetic variation in various vertebrates characterized by local or general absence of black and brown pigment with normal development of the red and golden pigments resulting in a yellow to reddish coloration.
”“I didn’t think anything about it for an hour and a half of fishing,” he told Arkansas Wildlife Magazine. “Then I started sending pictures to friends and putting it on Instagram and Facebook, and from the reaction of everybody, I started thinking, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t have thrown it back.’ I was surprised it caused such a reaction from people.”
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