Anybody ever heard of such a thing?

Check this video out. Kind of reminds me of the coloration on a Palomino trout.

In the wild?

My practice often deals with such things...

Doc
I have seen Albino smolts of both chinook and coho but never a
adult in the wild. My friend runs a smolt trap for the dept and has shown them to me.

Seen a number of albino chum fry.

In a natural environment, albinism is kind of like the deer in the Farside cartoon with the target on his chest: "Hell of a birthmark Hal".

Saw an albino steelhead once when I was in college at UW Fisheries. Someone caught it in the Skykomish River and brought it to the school. Very unusual for an albino to survive to adult phase, since they are so easy for predators to spot.

Sg

Lots of those around when they are babies, they get picked off fairly quickly though. Not very often do they ever make it back to spawn

Pretty cool stuff. Never an into that.

Posting while on my phone is a bad choice. I meant to say never gotten into one of those. Cool stuff tho. The edit button won't work with my phone haha

April fools

Had albino chinook smolt in a tank for while got them when I was clipping fins. Gave them away and there still alive in a pond. Gotta be gettin pretty big by now considering there 5 years old

Have seen a number of albino kokanee (land locked sockeye) fry in a hatchery but never an adult.

Since the sockeye in question does not have pink eyes it is not an albino.

The only wild adult albino salmonid I have seen was a resident cutthroat in a small step across stream in the Snoqualmie system.

Another interesting oddity is a robin egg blue colored rainbow. Have seen two of those in the wild; again in small streams. It maybe that in those small waters such fish are not exposed to as many predators and even though the "stick out" they are able to survive to become an adult.

Tight lines
Curt

Those white ones are cool, but there are some others like in chum that are an iredesent green and blue also a red variation