Thread: sizes of sunfish ?

I often wonder why some waters around us never produce large sunfish to any degree .
and maybe 15 minutes up the road at a lake on the same river , they get huge ?
interesting for sure and it might be a depth related thing or possibly freshwater shrimp population driven ?
anyway at the spot I frequent for chasing crappie they are darn active right about now and none have much size ,but at that lake they rarely get any size on them .
the black crappie in those 2 locations have the same thing going on as well , this lake has a rare few decent ones and the lake with the larger bluegill has giants ...?
anyway ...
here are a few that hit the other day during my crappie hunt .