(Another) New World Record Redear Sunfish
May 22, 2021 11:31:25 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
Able Man wrote:
A panfish... LONGER than the fisherman's shoulders are WIDE!!!
(We're gonna need a bigger frying pan)
May 22, 2021 12:34:04 #
Big A wrote:
Thanks, everyone for the acknowledgements ! Any interesting articles/stories I find relating to hunting or fishing I try to share with this Forum ! Hopefully, there'll be
more coming soon !
more coming soon !
May 22, 2021 19:49:21 #
RuffplayOR57
Loc: Klamath Falls, OR
Big A wrote:
May 5, 2021 - Thomas Franchione
of Wisconsin, while fishing Lake Havasu by drop-shotting a night-crawler, hooked and landed a new world record redear sunfish ! The
fish, which measured 17 inches
with a 20-in. girth, weighed in at
6.3 lbs., beating the recent record
of 5.5 lbs. (which also came from Lake Havasu in Feb., 2014) !
It was caught in 25 ft. of water in
California Bay, about a half-mile
north of Copper Canyon on the
California side of the lake !
of Wisconsin, while fishing Lake Havasu by drop-shotting a night-crawler, hooked and landed a new world record redear sunfish ! The
fish, which measured 17 inches
with a 20-in. girth, weighed in at
6.3 lbs., beating the recent record
of 5.5 lbs. (which also came from Lake Havasu in Feb., 2014) !
It was caught in 25 ft. of water in
California Bay, about a half-mile
north of Copper Canyon on the
California side of the lake !
Wow, now That is a Sunfish!! Thanks for sharing
May 22, 2021 20:37:21 #
as i want to offer congrats for catching and setting a new record, its also too bad that fishie aint gonna be making any more of itself to carry on the bloodline.
May 22, 2021 20:57:57 #
fishinphil wrote:
as i want to offer congrats for catching and setting a new record, its also too bad that fishie aint gonna be making any more of itself to carry on the bloodline.
Article didn't say whether he kept
it or not, but I'm thinking he had it mounted, as it WAS a World Record !
That said, this was the THIRD
sunfish over 5 lbs. to make the
news - the other two were the previous record and one other
that weighed slightly less than
the first one !
As stated, there will probably be
many more big 'sunnies' (and
bass) coming from that area
due to their high-protein diet of 'quagga' mussels !
May 22, 2021 21:01:41 #
May 22, 2021 21:07:25 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
fishinphil wrote:
as i want to offer congrats for catching and setting a new record, its also too bad that fishie aint gonna be making any more of itself to carry on the bloodline.
I would have to ASSUME; that in the time it must've taken him, to grow THAT big, that he's probably "gotten his jollies" more than ONCE!
May 22, 2021 21:29:18 #
Able Man wrote:
I would have to ASSUME; that in the time it must've taken him, to grow THAT big, that he's probably "gotten his jollies" more than ONCE!
LOL !! wonder what momma looked like
May 22, 2021 22:21:24 #
May 23, 2021 08:23:15 #
May 23, 2021 12:13:00 #
Zao wrote:
Congratulations, nice catch.
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