Pending World Record Redear Sunfish

[Gunwale]

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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[MThook]

wow! That's one heck of a fish

[Gunwale]

I bet that thing pulled some drag.

[ofishlbizzness]

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

[BigDawgg]

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

[sinkermaker]

That is one heck of a fish, congrads

[OpiemusRex]

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

[SeaRay]

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.

[Crappie Buster]

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

[BOCOON]

Now that's a SHELLCRACKER!!!