Pending World Record Redear Sunfish

I found this story yesterday and was going to post it, but got busy and forgot. Oh well, here is the story:


A pending world record, Arizona style, was yanked out of Lake Havasu on Sunday. Hector Brito’s redear sunfish weighed 5.78 pounds. A steroid shellcracker, it was. If you’ve never seen a 6-pound panfish, it’s time to head to Havasu, where the redear sunfish are likely benefitting from the invasive quagga mussels as a food source. Brito (right) caught the redear sunfish at 11:30 a.m. and brought it to Bass Tackle Master in Lake Havasu City, where John Galbraith weighed it at 5.78 pounds on an Arizona Game and Fish-certified scale. It was 17 inches long.

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wow! That's one heck of a fish

I bet that thing pulled some drag.

Bet he didnt catch it on a Snoopy rod. That is a goodun !

Man, that's a whopper for sure. Wish they would get that big around here.

That is one heck of a fish, congrads

Looks like that fish has been cleaning it's plate at every meal!

I have been to Lake Havasu not fishing, just RVing and it would never have struck me as a Shellcracker lake. They do have the London Bridge there though. Bought it when it was torn down, brought it here and reassembled it to go to a manmade island in the lake.

That's a whopper!!! I bet he had a time trying to get that thing in the boat.

Now that's a SHELLCRACKER!!!

Lord help me.....I'm gonna have to make a trip there. The current world record also came from the same lake, fella caught it on a plastic worm.

It is so big it looks like A fish you would see come out of the ocean. Massive!

Wow!!! thanks for the post

Well if you are planning to go you better find out when the off season is. It is a major ski and party lake for the left coast folks in California. That is why I would never have figured it to produce a fish like that. Maybe they thrive on beer, sunscreen, and Quicksilver. :dono