Here is an unusual catfish caught by Lake Texoma guide Scott Bridgess. Bridgess discovered, after shopping the fish to the folks at Cabela's and Bass Pro (to donate to their tanks), these fish are colored like this due to genetics, and once in captivity for a short time they apparently normalize their colors. Hope I know what I am doing in posting image? Apparently not.
My grandfather had a catfish farm while I was a kid. I remember several white catfish when he would transfer to a tank. Most of them were given to family memebers as pets. Ours was named Billy Jack we had him for about 9 years. Ours were albinos with punk eyes.