Albino Stripers?

[Big Vern]

What's happenin' everybody?

This past Saturday night a combination of old friends, Budweiser, and stories contributed to me rolling into my folk's home on the Cape circa 2 AM. Knowing that the tide and time was probably just about right to get into some fish at the marina only steps down the road, I grabbed my fiance and rod and headed down. We got to the gangway only to be greeted by a nice batch of schoolies absolutely boiling the water. All were only about 20-24'', but my fiance had never seen anything close to a large school feeding on top right under floodlights. We caught a few fish with the biggest being about 25''. There were larger fish, but they had arranged themselves about the boats and docks in such a way that you couldn't present a bait to them. Nevertheless, it was her first time casting and catching them all by herself, and I might now have a new fishing partner (She already likes football, and this would just put things over the top).

Anyway...in the school that was feeding were two white fish about 25'' long and about the same build as the stripers. Were they albino stripers or bonito or some other fish? I'm just wondering because there were only two intermixed with a school of about a hundred stripers.