Posted on 07/29/2020 9:39:09 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
State records come in all sizes.
A Missouri angler is officially in the state's records books after catching a fish that looks like it could fit in the palm of his hand. Weighing in at 4 ounces, this sunfish is more than big enough to break the previous record.
The Missouri Department of Conservation announced that Robert Audrain III from St. Louis had set a state record by catching the 4-ounce sunfish on July 3rd. Audrain was fishing at a private pond in Franklin County when he caught the fish.
“I was fishing off my father-in-law’s dock at a private lake a little south of Eureka,” he explained. “I was with my 12-year-old son and we knew there was some good-sized sunfish in the lake. I was using my handline and it was the first line I threw in when we caught the fish.”
The previous record of largest sunfish weighed in at 3 ounces and was set in 1993. Apparently, Audrain and his friends were amused that a fish that size could set a state record.
Audrain said, “It’s funny because most of my friends thought it was a joke. Because of the fish’s size, they really didn’t think that it was a record.”
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Ocean Sunfish.................
"We're gonna need a smaller boat!"
WOW! (not)
That’s a Long-Ear Sunfish, and I caught them bigger than that with a tree-branch pole and a doll fly out of Lake of the Ozarks when I was a kid.
Spielberg's next mega blockbuster?
Sunfish are great.
About 25 years ago, I caught a solid bright blue sunfish. I kept him in a 50 gallon aquarium and fed him minnows until he got to be just over two pounds in size. He was getting huge and hard to take care of so I released him in a friends 2 acre pond in Colden NY. I’ve always wondered if there is a population of all blue sunfish there now.
I vaguely remember a TV comedy from the 1950s in which someone catches a record sunfish about that small. He freezes it to show the record keepers, when a friend thaws it out, cooks and eats it.
The early doll flies were made with polar bear hair. I still look for them at swap meets and garage sales.
Perfect! Haha
LOL- perfect reply- :)
Gonna mount him...so no catch-and-release.
Antifa arrestees are treated better than that. Although, mounting an Antifa thug would be satisfying.
Ensenada looks a bit different from 1971, my last visit.
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat!!”
They can weigh over a ton!......................
Most of the Sunfish we caught were yellow/orange and they all were bigger than that! Caught them by the dozen. No limit.
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