Monster Sunfish

  • Jeremiah Shaver
    La Crosse, WI
    Posts: 4941
    January 27, 2004 at 8:06 pm #1311233

    Check out this Redear Sunfish that I came across while searching through some stuff on the web. (Caught in ’98) 5lb.7.5oz.

    Mike W
    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
    Posts: 13294
    January 27, 2004 at 8:22 pm #290341

    Holy Cow. Thats a fish. A guy I worked with brought in a couple he had mounted. The sunny went about 3.5# And the crappie was over 5#. He had caught them down south somewhere.

    mossboss
    La Crescent, MN
    Posts: 2792
    January 27, 2004 at 10:00 pm #290357

    Probably need a flippin stick to get tht bad boy in!!!

    Ever hear anymore about that 3 pound perch from the Lake? Any pics?

    Jeremiah Shaver
    La Crosse, WI
    Posts: 4941
    January 27, 2004 at 10:16 pm #290363

    It’s at the taxidermist now……so i’m not sure when i might get the pics…but i’ll keep trying.

    lenny_jamison
    Bay City , WI
    Posts: 4001
    January 28, 2004 at 2:47 am #290400

    THAT’S ONE HUUUUUGE FISH!!!

    Gator Hunter

    wing_nutt3
    Posts: 129
    January 28, 2004 at 7:19 pm #290531

    I have seen that fish in outdoor life awhile back. Fishing the Slippery tournement a few years ago. It was the one it was hot as heck and the fish were slow. We just ended up sitting in the backwaters casting for bass and all of sudden I get this strick. I could have swore it was a bass but I got it along side the boat. It was the biggest sunfish I have ever seen. We ended up netting it and we darted back to throw it in the freezer. We took it down to Bucks, now Daves Bait and Bullets. We brought it in on a frying pan. We never did weigh it, but its hanging on the wall and people always just stop and awe. It was just fat as heck and the colors are unreal.
    Tim

    buzzer
    Garnavillo Iowa
    Posts: 542
    January 30, 2004 at 12:25 pm #290736

    A few years back a honey hole I had produced 13in gills 3 of them over 2lbs got one this spring that was 1.14 and 13 inches at the taxidermist now

    Jeremiah Shaver
    La Crosse, WI
    Posts: 4941
    January 30, 2004 at 12:59 pm #290805

    Buzzer….Where did you say that was again?

    TBeirl514
    Covington Indiana
    Posts: 269
    February 11, 2004 at 9:17 pm #292404

    Is that a SHELL CRACKER?

    tony_apisa
    E. Moline Illinois along the Rock River
    Posts: 1180
    February 11, 2004 at 10:47 pm #292421

    World Record Fish From “The Splash”

    National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame

    Amos M. Gay and his new all-tackle world record redear sunfish (shellcracker) from Santee Cooper Diversional Canal, caught in August, 1998. The fish weighed 5 lbs. 7.5 ozs. and topped another fish from the same fishing hole by 3.5 ozs. The fishing hole where Gay caught this fish has produced at least three redear over 5 lbs. It is located where the canal meets Lake Moultrie. The area was intensively sprayed to remove vegetation, and the resulting bare bottom became the perfect home for an unnamed species of Asiatic shellfish. The shellfish are, of course, dinner for shellcrackers, and redear feeding in this area experience phenomenal growth and weight gain. If the shellfish are the infamous zebra mussels, redear appear to offer a perfect solution to control. Reduced zebra mussel expansion and big redear in one package!

    The Santee Cooper Diversional Canal is in South Carolina.

    That is also why they have such a great flathead fishery.

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